Marc Marquez announces new arm strategy, 2022 campaign ends

Rumors were planned for weeks in the paddock, and this Friday as well Marc Marquez He denied it at a press conference when they asked him directly with a small mouth, but the evidence is that his right arm, which he does not want to be asked, did not give his maximum, and he did his maximum. Was not allowed to give. And it was confirmed. This saturday, Italy MotoGPGP of MugelloCatalan and team Repsol Honda confirmed Everyone believes that Mark will be decisive at the exceptional press conference, where he will have a fourth surgery to have surgery on his right arm.

On Tuesday, he will fly to take him to Rochester, USA, and on Thursday, Dr. Joaquin Sanchez Sotelo will have surgery at the Mayo Clinic. It consists of an extraction of the osteotomy material on the right side. A humeral osteotomy shoulder improves the extreme rotation of the arm and corrects the stability of the still damaged shoulder. Mark himself hurriedly confirmed that there was no return deadline. “I do it in the middle of the season, it’s the best way to pay for a good future.”

Now he couldn’t give himself any more, there is excessive rotation in the humerus.. “On the straight, it’s in a more open arm position, and in the left corner, the elbow is raised a lot to compensate for the rotation. The forearm is attached, the pain reaches the shoulder, and now the pain is transmitted to my shoulder. Left shoulder because I was paying for it. I had to ride more smoothly and it wasn’t my style. I couldn’t keep the same position on the bike so there were ups and downs from one FP to another. I can’t brake in the right corner. I hope I can be saved and slid again and enjoy on my bike as I wish and in the future. “

The trial did not begin on July 19, 2020, due to his mistake in the form of a crash in the race at Jerez.He broke his right arm in the middle third of his humerus, when he was already on the podium after the previous track exit, and between a very heavy fall on the asphalt and a full impact of Honda. did. It started on November 27th with that preventive surgery on the right shoulder Put on a bone cap to end the subluxation. As the pilot later confessed, recovery was prolonged because the axillary nerve, which passes between the deltoid muscles and the humerus, was affected.

Due to a fracture in his right arm, he underwent three surgeries throughout 2020. The July 21 They placed a titanium plate with 12 screws, excluding that everyone was most worried that he touched the radial nerve. However, a few days later, a domestic accident at a sliding door caused stress and the plate collapsed.

August 3 He returned to the operating room to place a new plate and also had an allogeneic implant (usually a corpse bone obtained from a bone bank) to allow for faster reconstruction of bone defects.And what had to be resolved in the months that the fractures were integrated and the callus was formed resulted in the creation of nonunions that could not be healed without the new intervention he received. rice field December 3rdThe anterior plate was removed and a new plate was placed with a bone graft of the iliac crest from the pelvis and a so-called free cortical periosteal flap taken vascularly from the inner surface of the femur.

But since then Returned to the 2021 3GP track at PortimaoThe sequel did not let him steer Marquez. He won three races in 2021, but did not regain his old self or facilitate recovery. Then they arrive and finish Two episodes of diplopia after hitting the head twice, A training session with a dirt bike at the end of October 2021 and a Mandarica warm-up this 2022. The fourth intervention on the right arm was already evaluated because of excessive rotation of the upper arm during the four-month winter break.However, the bone has not yet been welded and has been postponed.

Instead, Mark moved to Madrid, approached Dr. Antonya, and recovered with Dr. Kotro’s team. He put everything on his side, he worked like never before on his body, and after Jerez, they had already begun to evaluate surgery. After filming the 3DX line at noon yesterday, Dr. Sanchez Sotero, a prominent shoulder and elbow surgeon from Mayo Clinic’s Madrid, replied, “Come here and we’ll repair for you.” had. Samuel Antuña of Ruber Internacional de Madrid, who saved the bone in December 2021, told him that. And he said.