Dr. Manuel Leyes confirmed that the knee operation this Wednesday at the Olympia Clinic in Madrid on the Spanish badminton player Carolina Marin “it has gone well,” although he explained that it had been done ““quite a bit of damage” to a right knee in which he built a new ligament.
“Today we operated on Carolina Marín and everything went well, she had done quite a bit of damage to her right knee, He tore the ligament that had been done to him in the past and both menisci and the surgery consisted of making a new ligament and stitching both menisci,” the doctor explained after the operation.
In addition, the Huelva native’s battered knee has been an “extra-articular reinforcement” to have “greater rotational stability” looking to the future.
Carolina Marín’s physiotherapist, Carlos De Santos, was present at the operation and celebrated that it was a success. “Everything went well, obviously the cruciate ligament of her patellar tendon had to be reconstructed, both menisci also had to be stitched and that is what will mark her recovery,” he commented.
Recovery times
We will have to wait to see when the recovery and subsequent track work will be able to begin.The operation will determine the recovery and rehabilitation times“But he is already in his room, enjoying his family and in a good mood,” he said.
The Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro had been left out of Tokyo 2020 due to a second knee injury, the left one, and, when she seemed headed for a new gold in Paris, the Huelva native He broke his other knee in the semi-finals.
This time, the problem is a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament and both menisci in his right knee, the same one he already injured in 2019 in his first of three major injuries between his two knees.
2024-08-07 17:06:29
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