Bill and Ashley Carmean

When father Bill Carmean, avid golfer and proud weekend warrior, discovered he had torn his ACL, among his first thoughts including what this injury meant for him, what all his option would be, were also his thoughts of his daughter Ashley, whom he lovingly refers to as “Butter.” As it turns out, Ashley was no stranger to tearing her ACL. In fact as a soccer player in her youth and then later for Indiana State University, she tore both ACL’s in addition to condyle and meniscal damage landing her in multiple surgeries. While her soccer playing days are over now, Ashley attributes her speedy recovery and fast return to play back then from the expert care and compassion of her chosen surgeon, Dr. Pete Edwards of The Ohio Riverside Sports Medicine Institute at The Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence.

Fortunately for Bill, he found a real comfort in the same care and expertise of Dr. Pete Edwards.
“He always took time to sit down with me and talk….really explaining things to me in a way that I never felt rushed,”says Bill of Dr. Edwards. Dr. Edwards recommended an allograft for Bill. Feeling a bit uneasy about the allograft concept, Bill says that he found confidence after spending unrushed time with Dr. Edwards and in believing that he truly had Bill’s best interest at heart.
Bill and Ashley now report that they are back to enjoying life. Athletics will remain an important part of their lives collectively, even if it’s contained to cheering on the Buckeyes together. After sharing the same ACL experiences and similar recoveries, lives only one unsolved question…”Who’s really to blame!”