MM Big News

[Yorick]

Kin hell. He's suffering but still wants to win.

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/10039 ... -operation

[formula400]

Let’s hope the re-setting of his arm helps in the future.
Did’t Mick have his legs stitched together after an accident, then come back and win.

[Noggin]

Good luck to him. I didn't see yesterday's crash but everytime I see him come off I worry about the shoulder!!

[Bustaspoke]

Did’t Mick have his legs stitched together after an accident, then come back and win.

To put it mildly that's a understatement

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/arti ... t-comeback

[Noggin]

To put it mildly that's a understatement

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/arti ... t-comeback

FUCK

[lostboy]

It's not great seeing him flogging around mid pack - still so much better than most of the Hondas but nowhere near where he should be. You all know I'm a fan as I've written about the "unseen" stuff on here often enough and whilst it was heartbreaking to see Valentino slide towards the rear of the field you knew that was old age and faster, younger talent. With Marquez it's the injury and it's deprived us of seeing some epic racing between him and the new young guns.

[Yorick]

Just been reading what they've done. I'm no doctor, but 30 degrees does seem a huge change. Did they bugger up the first operations?

While the three previous operations involved trying to heal and cure a serious infection in the original fracture, sustained in the 2022 Spanish Grand Prix, the latest operation was to re-align the bone in order to improve mobility and reduce pain.

That realignment involved making a cut in the humerus and rotating the bone by 30-degrees, before fixing it in its new place using a plate and screws.

[ChrisW]

Did they bugger up the first operations?

Yeah, I wondered that, seemed a massive amount if it was an earlier mess up. Apparently the procedure he underwent is called 'Lateral rotation Osteotomy of the Humerus' which as far as I've been able to find out treats something calle Brachial Plexus Palsy, a condition where nerve damage leads to poor muscle function in the arm.

[Noggin]

I would guess that between the infection and the crashes he's had, the bone moved/twisted or something. It seems like a lot, but maybe it depends exactly where and how

The nerve that was damaged in my second op was the Brachial Plexus - if he's had issues with that (which are apparently relatively common in shoulder ops) then he's even more of a frikken superstar because that can affect any part of the arm from the neck to the fingers. We've worked out here that mine hasn't fully recovered, mostly because it is starting to cause weird sensations (coming back to life?) and also some lack of movement of the upper arm is 'probably' due to the nerve. So any issues from that will have made riding at his level proper difficult


I can't remember exactly what he had done in/on his humerus at the first operation, but the first humerus implant I had moved. No idea how. Wasn't aware of any pain from movement. But, the top started scraping on the socket (pre full replacement and pre nerve damage)