Rafael Nadal is expected to stay out of the tennis court for five months after successfully undergoing arthroscopic surgery.
The procedure was to check his left psoas muscle. “Hello, everyone. As you know, last night I had surgery. Everything went well, and the arthroscopy was on the left psoas tendon that has kept me out of competition since January,” Nadal wrote in Spanish on social media.“An old injury to the labrum of my left hip was also [fixed], which will surely help the better evolution of the tendon.
I want to thank doctors Marc Philippon, Jaume Vilaro, and Angel Ruiz-Cotorro for their work,” he added. ”I will start progressive functional rehabilitation immediately, and the normal recovery process they tell me is 5 months if all goes well.”Ángel Ruiz Cotorro, one of three doctors, gave more details about Nadal’s procedure. “We reached this situation for various reasons,” explained the doctor. “We had a core issue — injuring a muscle is not the same as a tendon.
When we put it under large loads, the tendon was not responding because it was not strong enough.”According to the doctor, the 22-time major champion wasn’t considering surgery. “The decision to operate was made recently,” admitted Cotorro. “We tried all the conservative options, which is how these injuries are normally treated.
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