Rudy Gay, who underwent surgery in New York on his ruptured left Achilles’ tendon on Monday, probably could write a term paper by now on the injury, list the NBA players who tore the tendon, and cite the grim odds of a full recovery.
In an oft-cited study of 18 NBA players who ruptured their Achilles’ between 1988 to 2011 – co-authored by Dr. Nirav Amin and Dr. Douglas Cerynik and published in the June 3, 2013 issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine – the findings that examined height, weight, position and a variety of other factors revealed:
u25aa The average age at the time of injury was 29.