The Red Sox announced that Dustin Pedroia underwent a fifth knee surgery — this one a joint preservation procedure — Tuesday in Vail, Colo. The operation was performed by Dr. Matt Provencher at the Steadman Clinic. Pedroia will begin his rehabilitation in Arizona.
Dr. Christopher Geary, an orthopedic surgeon at Tufts Medical Center who has not treated Pedroia, described this type of operation as “a much bigger procedure’’ than anything Pedroia has had to this point.
“If he was 16, they do either knee replacement or a partial knee replacement,’’ said Geary. “But because of his age [35], there’s a relatively newer technique where they take what’s called a mega allograft.