Re: Does the fact that the MSM have not reported...

> Oh but he has arthritis now apparently. His legs have also fallen off. I
> don't know why you and Hazelnut set yourselves up to look so stupid time
> and time again.

What are you talking about? I'm merely reporing information which is
available on his own website.

Here is text from his website (www.vamosrafael.com) - 22nd November
2005

"These tests have revealed that Nadal is suffering from "post-traumatic
arthritis", in the form of 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."

Full text here:

BARCELONA, 22 Nov 05
The Mallorcan tennis player Rafael Nadal has to have complete rest and
follow a course of treatment during the next two weeks to recover from
the problems he has been carrying in his left foot, which means that he
is doubtful for the Spanish Masters that will bring together the top
Spanish players in Valladolid from 16th to 18th December.

These physical problems, which he has had since the final of the
Masters Series Madrid, prevented him from participating in the Masters
Cup in Shanghai and lead to him undergoing a series of test in
Barcelona last week to find out the exact extent and severity of the
injury.

These tests have revealed that Nadal is suffering from "post-traumatic
arthritis", in the form of 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 injection/infiltration of "growth factors"* in the
affected area. Next week he will receive a second injection and the
following week he will begin training "gradually, like any other player
beginning his preparation for the new season".

This was all explained today in the real Club de Tenis Barcelona by
Doctor Angel Ruiz Cotorro, the Real Federación Española de Tenis
doctor who is supervising Nadal's recovery. The doctor also stated that
the change of surfaces on which he had played had been "what had
sparked off these problems, which had appeared when he was playing
least".

Ruiz Cotorro did not make any declaration about Nadal's chances of
taking part in the Spanish Masters but stated that that would depend on
the daily evolution of the injury. Nadal himself made it clear that his
prime objective is to be competely recovered and 100% fit for the first
Grand Slam of 2006 in Australia in the middle of next January.

"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".

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.

"It is also my own fault, at times I've done things badly. Sometimes
you have to suppress the desire to play and your ambition because it's
not good for your body," he confessed, during the press conference in
which he also talked about what he had achieved in 2005, a historic
year in which he won a total of 11 titles, among them his first Grand
Slam, Roland Garros.

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