Dr. Bert Mandelbaum, who has worked closely with Dr. William Meyers, who will be performing Foster's surgery on Friday, predicts that Texans running back Arian Foster will be a full go in about 2-3 months. "Dr. Meyers performs a Bassini-type hernia repair that he has performed on hundreds of professional athletes who have suffered a sports hernia," said Mandelbaum, an orthopedic surgeon at Santa Monica Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Group in California. "We published an article together in the '90s regarding its effectiveness. Foster should be back to full form in two to three months depending on the details and spectrum of his injury.
Encouraging news for Texans RB Arian Foster
