the bone broke through the skin that means that dirt from the basketball court could get into the wound so they had to wash out that wound before they started the surgery. wolf? >> elizabeth cohen, thanks very much. we are joined now by a leading orthopedic surgeon which specializes in sports medicine in washington, dr. j.r. wattski, i'll give you greater respect. you brought an example of what's going on. i'm pretty amazed that after what looked like such a horrific disaster yesterday he's already up on crutches. >> yeah. the beauty of this proceed sur that we can stabilize the fracture acutely with the rod as we saw from elizabeth's presentation there. we'll take it first in approach to the knee where we're going to make an incision just along the side of the patella tendon which gives us exposure to the tibia and looking at the other model and the entire tibia along its length, we can place a rod through a small drill hole that