AC Getting Help From the Dead
With a fresh cadaver tendon, Rabobank-Giant team rider Adam Craig is rehabbing the knee he injured in a most mundane manner.
By Singletrack.com
When “Adam Craig” and “injury” are used in the same sentence, the first things that come to mind are a rally car wreck, a whitewater beatdown, a backcountry yard sale or an obligatory bike bashing.
So when the Rabobank-Giant team rider spilled the beans on his blog about blowing out his knee on a slippery patch in a Bend, Oregon parking lot, it was a bit anti-climatic yet totally disheartening nonetheless. Craig won’t be able to ride a mountain bike “in any remotely risky environment for four months from the date of surgery, February 9th.”
Read more about flash-frozen cadaver tendons, dissolving screws and what goes through a world-class racer’s mind when he’s on the mend at Craig’s blog.