His seventh injury in less than three years threatens to ruin Carlos Alcaraz's European clay court tour in 2024, a phase of the season in which he had high hopes and even dreamed of scoring enough points to surpass the Italian Jannik Sinner and the Serbian Novak Djokovic in the ATP ranking and, in this way, recover number 1. However, his injury to his right forearm has forced him to give up, for the moment, participating in the Monte Carlo and Barcelona tournaments. The next one, Madrid, is in the air.
After showing his face last Monday in the press room of the Conde de Godó tournament and explaining the reasons for his resignation, Carlitos has returned home to put himself in the hands of the physios and, with an innovative treatment, shorten the deadlines and be able to play next week at the Caja Mágica. The Alcaraz medical team, led by the Murcian doctor Juanjo López and the Yeclano physio Juanjo Moreno, has given approval to the use of diamagnetotherapy, a non-invasive therapeutic method that takes advantage of the strength of magnetic fields at high intensity and low frequency. to recover damaged tissues.
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Carlos Alcaraz has had since he reached the tennis elite, in 2021.
According to the creators of this new technology, patented for health applications by the Swiss manufacturer Periso SA and introduced a couple of years ago in Spain by Fisaude, thanks to the application of this diamagnetic effect, “a spectacular capacity for mobilizing liquids and “a more than remarkable capacity for regeneration of any type of body tissue.” Furthermore, this treatment applied with the diamagnetic pump is completely painless.
nerve compression
The injury to the pronator teres that Carlos Alcaraz is currently suffering from is a pathology that manifests itself as a consequence of the compression of the median nerve in the forearm, affecting the motor and sensory functions of the hand and forearm, which causes weakness in the hand and loss of sensitivity in the area, something that is aggravated by activities that involve pronation of the forearm.
That is why Alcaraz had to stop in Monte Carlo and, for this reason, his medical team has taken all possible precautions. Forcing the player at this moment can mean saying goodbye to Roland Garros, the great objective of the clay court tour. And then come Wimbledon and the Olympic Games. In the opinion of Dr. Pedro Luis Ripoll, the decision to rest Alcaraz and remove him from the competition before the injury worsens is correct.
The pronator teres “is an essential muscle for tennis,” recalls Ripoll on 'ABC'. «It prevents you from practicing it with ease. [Alcaraz] “He has done very well in stopping so as not to overload other structures, such as extending to the epicondyle, the tennis elbow,” says the prestigious traumatologist born in Jumilla.
Diamagnetotherapy is a non-invasive method that takes advantage of the strength of magnetic fields at high intensity and low frequency to recover damaged tissues.
Ripoll points out that Alcaraz has injured the muscle that helps “invert the hand so that the palm looks up and down. And it is a dangerous area because these overloads can alter the mechanics of the rest of the movements and affect tendon structures whose healing is slower,” explains Dr. Ripoll. That's why it hurts when he hits forehands.
Pedro León's experience
It is clear that Alcaraz has done well to stop. And now it remains to be seen if this innovative treatment with the diamagnetic pump works and he may soon be back on the slopes. Another important athlete in the Region, Pedro León from Muleño, already has experience with diamagnetotherapy. And the results were optimal. The Real Murcia captain was one of the first elite players to undergo this treatment in Spain.
It was in his year at Fuenlabrada, in the final stretch of the 21-22 season. Shortly after he signed for Real Murcia and at 37 years old he continues to compete every weekend with complete normality. The man from Muleño had been suffering from tendon problems for several seasons and the treatment he received with the flagship diamagnetic therapy device went very well.
“You have done very well in stopping so as not to overload other structures, such as extending to the epicondyle,” explains Dr. Ripoll.
Much younger is Carlos Alcaraz, who will turn 21 on May 5. Since he broke into the tennis elite, he has accumulated seven injuries that made him stop his activity. The first was in the quarterfinals of the 2021 US Open, when he retired against Auger-Aliassime due to a puncture in his right adductor. Subsequent tests revealed that he also suffered from a fibrillar tear in his quadriceps.
Then came the problems in the abdominal, abductor and semimembranosus. She also suffered from post-traumatic arthritis in her hand. Later, an inflammation in the left foot and problems in the gluteus and back. And now, this ailment in the forearm. «If we compare with the rest of the tennis players who have his style, I don't see that Alcaraz has many injuries. Graves hasn't had any. He plays very physical tennis, which has the positive side of it, but also a greater exposure to the possibility of suffering from overload,” says Dr. Ripoll.
“I have Ferrero by my side because he doesn't laugh at me,” he says.
Carlos Alcaraz once again praised his mentor and coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, in an interview with 'La Vanguardia'. He confessed that last year ended badly because he did not do his best to reverse the situation. «After the American tour I failed to maintain my enthusiasm and that last part of the season cost me more than it should. Ferrero came to tell me that the season does not end in September and that more things have to be done. For things like that I have him by my side: he doesn't laugh at me, but rather he tells me what he should tell me,” Carlitos confessed. In addition, he is very “hurt” by not being able to compete this week at the Conde de Godó. «I really wanted to play Godó. My group of friends had already made reservations to go see me play. Except in Barcelona and Madrid, they never see me. I wait a whole year to get here. “I don't usually cry about these things, but Sunday was very hard,” acknowledged the El Palmar player, who also remains very worried. He is “not at all clear” that he will be able to compete next week at the Masters 1000 in Madrid. “If he can't go to Madrid it will be a different story, but right now I am not in a position to say that I will be ready, because I don't know,” explained the young Murcian tennis player.
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