Shortly after acquiring Alec Burks and Bojan Bogdanovic at the trade deadline, the New York Knicks revealed that OG Anunoby will be out for three weeks following successful surgery to remove a loose bone fragment from his right elbow.
Before the news broke, Jeff Stotts, a sports injury expert and qualified athletic trainer who runs the website instreetclothes.com, detailed Anunoby’s ailment.
Anunoby’s ailment began with an elbow inflammation, which progressed to bone spur irritation.
According to Stotts, a “bone spur, or osteophyte, is frequently the result of a repetitive motion that places undue stress somewhere on the body.” Constant friction can irritate a bone in the region, resulting in the formation of new bone tissue to battle and control the stress. The newly created osteophyte then functions like a doorstop, restricting range of motion and aggravating nearby soft tissue structures such as nerves, ligaments, or muscles.”
