Checking in on the Bruins’ Kevan Miller - The Boston Globe
Kevan Miller hasn’t resumed skating yet, but the veteran Bruins defenseman is happy to report that his twice-fractured right kneecap has mended and withstood his rigorous regimen of two rehab workouts a day, six days a week this summer.
“A long road,” said Miller, 31, reached by telephone this past week at his new offseason home just south of Denver. “That’s consumed my summer. And I don’t want to sound negative about it, because the knee feels great. I feel like a human and an athlete again.”
The first fracture, which occurred in a crash into the boards in St. Paul on April 4 against the Wild, cracked the kneecap vertically. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital repaired it a couple of days later, noted Miller, and he progressed as expected, until he heard the stomach-turning popping sound while working out adjacent to the club’s dressing room in Raleigh.
“That would have been my first skate,” said Miller. “We had a good target date . . . and this was all subject to change, based on how my knee was feeling. I had full range of motion. The strength had come back. Swelling had gone down. Things were healing and on track. I was kind of warned, to make sure I was staying up on how things were feeling. Everything was great . . . and then . . . it was just too much too soon.”
Kevan Miller hasn’t resumed skating yet, but the veteran Bruins defenseman is happy to report that his twice-fractured right kneecap has mended and withstood his rigorous regimen of two rehab workouts a day, six days a week this summer.
“A long road,” said Miller, 31, reached by telephone this past week at his new offseason home just south of Denver. “That’s consumed my summer. And I don’t want to sound negative about it, because the knee feels great. I feel like a human and an athlete again.”
The first fracture, which occurred in a crash into the boards in St. Paul on April 4 against the Wild, cracked the kneecap vertically. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital repaired it a couple of days later, noted Miller, and he progressed as expected, until he heard the stomach-turning popping sound while working out adjacent to the club’s dressing room in Raleigh.
“That would have been my first skate,” said Miller. “We had a good target date . . . and this was all subject to change, based on how my knee was feeling. I had full range of motion. The strength had come back. Swelling had gone down. Things were healing and on track. I was kind of warned, to make sure I was staying up on how things were feeling. Everything was great . . . and then . . . it was just too much too soon.”
