osteochondritis

The Sparks’ first-round draft pick had osteochondritis dissecans in her left knee as an eighth-grader, but two surgeries later she was playing again.

Barker was an eighth-grader when she was diagnosed with osteochondritis dissecans, a condition that disrupts blood flow to a bone beneath joint cartilage, causing pain and limiting mobility.

After a basketball tournament, he felt pain in the knee, and an MRI exam showed he had a joint condition called osteochondritis dissecans.

An MRI showed darkness, and Seyda was diagnosed with osteochondritis dissecans.

When Justify was a yearling, X-rays revealed he had osteochondritis dissecans in the stifle joint, meaning the bone did not develop properly.