He left his hotel in Milan on crutches on Monday morning and is scheduled to arrive in Finland to undergo surgery at the Turku clinic of knee specialist Dr Sakari Orava in the afternoon.
Offseason surgeries to two superstar players plus the recovery of another superstar from midseason knee surgery only tell a fraction of the story.
Torres has scored 18 goals in 22 league games for Liverpool this season but will miss the rest of the campaign after having surgery on a knee injury, meaning the 26-year-old faces a race to be fit for Spain's opening game in the World Cup against Switzerland on June 16.
The news is a devastating blow for both the team, as it makes its playoff push, and the 6-foot-11 big man, who has a long history of knee troubles and missed the first two months of the season with a separate surgery on his left knee.
Several were about the status of Revis, who is recovering from knee surgery that sidelined him for most of last season and has been the subject of rampant trade rumors.
Flintoff, who will miss the rest of the season to have knee surgery, admitted it was a highly emotional moment as he held the Ashes urn once again.
It is good news for England at the end of a week when skipper Michael Vaughan was ruled out of the Ashes tour following knee surgery.
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Xarelto is already FDA-approved to reduce the risk of DVTs and PEs from occurring after knee or hip replacement surgery (July 2011), and to reduce the risk of stroke in people who have a type of abnormal heart rhythm called non-valvular atrial fibrillation (November 2011).
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But having missed the final stages of the Premier League season after knee surgery, he has yet to score in South Africa and has looked off the pace.
They are super important in a sport like running, where improper foot and knee alignment can mean the difference between smiling at the finish line of a marathon and heading into the ER for knee surgery.
However, midfielder Gennaro Gattuso will play as he seeks to get back in shape after missing much of the season following knee surgery.
The Rockets have made it look much easier since Westbrook was lost for the rest of the playoffs to knee surgery before Game 3.
Woodson had hoped the return of Amare Stoudemire from a two-month layoff following knee surgery would help the Knicks inside Saturday.
She had undergone a state-of-the-art knee surgery after it deteriorated following the 2008 Games and spent two years recovering.
Slipping in under the radar of the big-hospital industry, the Fresno Surgery Center became the best place in the city to get knee or hip surgery, according to HealthGrades' research.
McGinley, 39, had knee surgery last week after pulling out of the Irish Open at Carton House.
He missed much of last season following knee surgery but returned to captain the Warriors 'A' side and played at Launceston on loan.
Also, Helms gets around the Senate on a motor scooter because of knee surgery and a nerve condition in his feet.
Canty missed the first six games of last season after having offseason knee surgery.
The on-off transfer saga had been in doubt after City tried to pull out of the deal, expressing concern about a knee injury Benjani had surgery on 18 months ago.
Villa then enjoyed a lengthy period of possession but the home defence, boosted by the return of David Wheater, who was playing despite requiring knee surgery, held firm.
Sutton then got in behind the Celtic defence to fire in a shot that was comfortably held by Mark Brown, the goalkeeper included in place of Artur Boruc, who is awaiting knee surgery.
Mr. Todashev's father, Abdulbaki Todashev, also said his son was disabled by knee surgery earlier this year and was learning to walk again at about the time of the Boston Marathon bombings.
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When he underwent the initial surgery in early October, Wilkinson's knee specialist envisaged a recovery period of five months, meaning he is unlikely to figure in the Six Nations in February and March.
He had his first operation after returning home from that tour, but needed more surgery last month and flew to Colorado in the USA to see a colleague of Dr Richard Steadman, the knee and shoulder specialist, who recently operated on team-mate Simon Jones.
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On the night before the meeting, Clinton, recovering from knee surgery, had trouble sleeping--he heard a loud banging above the ceiling of his room.
At the start of 2005 he was awarded an OBE in recognition of his services to the 13-man code but has since been sidelined after undergoing knee surgery.
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He underwent knee surgery after that epic victory and returned in 2009 to win a clutch of tournaments on the PGA Tour, but with no luck in the four majors.
But he survived until the morning when the surgeon opened up his knee again and found a raging staph infection that took two rounds of surgery to clean up.
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