Update: Pedrosa to undergo surgery on arm and knee | MotoGP
- From: TRS Media | Published: March 4th, 2009 - 9:29 am
Pedrosa out for three to four weeks after Qatar crash
The Repsol Honda Team rider had an operation on Wednesday afternoon to correct the injuries to his left arm and knee. After the diagnosis made on Tuesday night at the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus in Barcelona upon his return from the Circuit of Losail (Qatar), Dani Pedrosa was operated on Wednesday to correct his injured left knee and arm.
He entered the operating theatre at 19:30 to be operated on by Doctors Bartolomé Ferreira, specialist in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Dr. Xavier Mir, Head of the Hand Surgery Microsurgery Unit at the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus.
Dani Pedrosa was diagnosed as suffering from a loss of internal matter on his left knee and a fractured left distal radius that was affecting the wrist joint on his left arm. The two doctors carried out the three hour operation at the same time. The longer one being the surgery to the left knee.
According to Dr. Ferreira, a specialist in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery “Dani Pedrosa received a graft on the open wound using a rotation graft (a graft of skin and fat taken from the inside of his left thigh) to cover the affected area. We must now wait for scar tissue to form; the patient will be able to start moving a little within three weeks and within a minimum of four he can begin to bend the leg.”
Dr. Xavier Mir carried out an arthroscopy on Pedrosa at the same time “with this the fracture on the left distal radius, which was affecting the joint, has been repaired, it was then fixed with a titanium screw. The functioning of the affected zone will begin within ten days, in the meantime Dani Pedrosa will stay in hospital for the next 72 hours.”
Back in Barcelona following his Qatar test crash, Dani Pedrosa will need an operation on his left arm on Wednesday to fit a screw in a fractured radius bone, with his injured left knee also in need of surgery. Having had a full medical assessment at the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus clinic in his native Barcelona on Tuesday, as a result of his Monday night Qatar test crash, Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa has been diagnosed with a fractured left radius (one of the bones in the forearm) and a severely cut and bruised left knee.
Pedrosa flew back to Spain on Tuesday and went straight to his trusted surgeon Doctor Mir’s clinic, where he was also operated on in December having originally injured his left knee last season in Australia. The knee has been further damaged and will require skin graft surgery.
His left arm, meanwhile, requires a supportive screw insertion in order to heal the fractured radius bone more rapidly than if left unsupported.
Pedrosa did not stay at the clinic overnight and will therefore return on Wednesday to go under the surgeon’s knife again. It is unclear as yet how this will affect his preseason preparations with just over a month to go before the first race of the year.
