Very sound were the words “You are going to lose two months but not two years” from Marc himself when he decided that going under the knife would be the best of his ideas.
the doctor Joaquin Sanchez-Sotelo has highlighted in ‘Motorsport’ the sacrifice that the Spanish driver had to try to recover: “As soon as it became clear that there was a possibility of improvement, He told me that he was taking a plane and that he would be here immediately”.
Joaquín himself was blunt when it came to recognizing the responsibility he exercised in the process: “The night before the operation, I didn’t sleep a wink.“
“I looked for a way to make the surgery as minimally invasive as possible, the least risky. Bone is a cylinder, so I decided to cut a little higher to limit the risk of complications.” A remedy that paid off by making Marc Márquez continue to have the same desire to win the crown as when you started.
“When he saw the 3D image of the two humeri, he realized that the best option was to have surgery. It gave him a lot of courage, because when you tell a patient who has broken his arm that you are going to cut it again, most of them tell you that you are crazy,” said the surgeon who operated on him in the United States.
Marc Márquez continues to take steps forward in his recovery after his fourth shoulder operation 💪
“Bye bye sling!”
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— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) July 15, 2022
The ordeal that Márquez went through
The path that the six times world champion of MotoGP it was not easy and he had to overcome his external mobility problems that made him not control his motorcycle in the curves.
An intervention was necessary if Marc wanted to fight for the titles, since the impediments caused by his humerus increased and he was barely able to block his arm.
The surgeon Joaquín Sánchez emphasizes the comparison of his arm with that of the pilot: “He sent me a CT scan of both arms and we reproduced his two humeri in plastic. The left and the injured one, which presented considerable rotation. We made a video call, I showed him the bones and he told me: I’ll have surgery.”
Luckily for Márquez, this season he will get back on a motorcycle in full physical condition and after a preseason full of hard training at the age of 29.
