MotoGP
The Catalan pilot faces his recovery with optimism after being checked after his fourth intervention in the humerus
While the MotoGP riders were fighting this Saturday for pole position in Marc Márquez’s kingdom, the Spanish rider was undergoing his first check-up in Madrid after the operation he underwent two weeks ago on his right humerus, the fourth since the accident July 2020. A postoperative recognition of a positive result, as the head of Repsol Honda had already hinted at the DAZN microphones in the morning at Sachsenring.
«Yes», Alberto Puig answered emphatically to the question of whether they expected Márquez in the box before the end of this season. «Since he returned from the United States he has entered into a dynamic of feeling well and being very positive. He has started to move his hand, he is active. The important thing is that there are no complications, everything is going very well and normally one already notices after an intervention how he is », he pointed out.
An extreme that was confirmed in that review to which the pilot underwent in Madrid, with the assessment of Dr. Joaquín Sánchez-Sotelo, the one who intervened in Rochester (Minnesota), and Samuel Antuña and Ángel Cotorro, who are the ones who are already monitored in Spain and those who recommended surgery in the United States.
“Today I had a medical check-up in Madrid and the doctors are happy,” commented Márquez through an official statement from his team. “My arm is immobilized and it will be like that for the next few weeks. My feelings so far are positive because I have no pain, this is very important. It allows me to rest and follow the rules of the doctors: a healthy diet, drink a lot and go for a walk with our dogs, because it is important that the body is active. The most important thing that the doctors tell me is that now I have to be calm and be patient.
To this his doctors add that he can begin controlled passive mobilization exercises of the shoulder and elbow until he has another check-up in four weeks. Because if the medical evaluations continue to be positive, then the race will begin towards his return to the track, which is very important for him and for his factory, Honda, once they hope to be able to work together on the bike to prepare the 2023 prototype, with the solutions that allow it to recover lost competitiveness. Although this part of this story will still have to wait a while.
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