Nadal injury updates
- From: "Vari L. Cinicke" <cinicke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:08:17 GMT
Here are a couple of updates from last week and this week. Nadal has had tests and held a press conference. I have excerpted from longer articles.
Summary:
1) Not as bad as originally thought and will start training after 2 weeks off
2) Injury is in the same spot on his left foot as his stress fracture last year
3) Will have two shots similar to Safin with growth factors to promote healing
4) Injury appears directly related to playing too much on HC
5) Will be ready for AO
6) May play in National Masters in mid December if recovery proceeds smoothly
7) Plans to cut back on clay to prove himself on other surfaces as an investment in future
Cheers,
vc ============================= 17 Nov 05 El Mundo - El Día de Baleares wrote:
Tired and serious looking, Rafael Nadal arrived yesterday evening at about 7 o'clock at Son San Joan Airport, Palma de Mallorca. In reply to journalists' questions about his injury, Rafael said: "I'd love to be able to tell you something, but, I promise you, I don't know anything. We won't have the results of the tests until Monday, but it looks as if everything is much better than it seemed."
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Europa Press via Yahoo! España wrote:
BARCELONA, 22 Nov 05
These tests have revealed that Nadal is suffering from "post-traumatic arthritis", i.e. inflammation of the instep of his left foot, the same foot in which he suffered a stress facture last year that kept him off the tennis circuit for a couple of months.
After one week of complete rest, his treatment started today when he was given an infiltration with growth factors in the affected area. Next week he will receive a second infiltration and the following week he will begin training "gradually, like any other player beginning his preparation for the new season".
"My prime goal is to have my foot better for Australia. If within this objective I can play the Masters Nacional, fine, but if not, unfortunately it will have to be ruled out, although it is a tournament I've never played in and would really like to play," declared the player, who is very pleased that his injury is not so serious.
"I'm pleased because, although I'm injured, it is not as serious as one would have thought... After all, it's only two weeks, and that's the time I had planned for my holidays," he said. Nadal expects to be back training "round about December 5th" and trusts that "by then my foot will be no longer hurting me".
When it comes to next year, Nadal plans to cut out some tournaments, especially those played on clay, as he wants to test himself on other types of surfaces "as an inversion for the future," he said and warned that in making up his schedule, he would need to "be careful not to overload it too much".
When it comes to next year, Nadal plans to cut out some tournaments, especially those played on clay, as he wants to test himself on other types of surfaces "as an investment for the future," he said and warned that in making up his schedule, he would need to "be careful not to overload it too much".
At the same time, he pointed out the need to take into account the changes of surface, as the doctors consider that this was the main factor that led to the problems in his foot, and to know how and when to renounce some tournaments, because he knows that this year he made the "mistake" of playing more tournaments than were good for him.
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