{"id":431444,"date":"2026-01-23T04:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431444\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:25:08","slug":"injury-report-powell-pepper-undergoes-knee-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431444\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury report: Powell-Pepper undergoes knee procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Sam Powell-Pepper has undergone an arthroscopy to reduce discomfort in his knee.\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                    The forward&#8217;s return to play timeline is not expected to be greatly impacted. Image: Matt Sampson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sam Powell-Pepper has undergone an arthroscopy to reduce discomfort in his knee as he continues his rehabilitation following an ACL tear in July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On return from Christmas break, Powell-Pepper was experiencing irritation as he increased the intensity of his end-stage rehab, with some scar tissue identified as the likely predominant cause of the issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In consultation with a surgeon, it was decided a clean out of scar tissue was necessary to resolve the discomfort, push towards end stage and return to training in this phase of rehab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The procedure is not uncommon for athletes recovering from an ACL injury, and Powell-Pepper&#8217;s return to play timeline is not expected to be greatly impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Powell-Pepper has undergone an arthroscopy to reduce discomfort in his knee. The forward&#8217;s return to play timeline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-431444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}