Marco Melandri certainly will not be having a comfortable Christmas, as he underwent shoulder surgery yesterday morning, confirmed by the same Melandri on his Twitter page, “surgery on rt shoulder went well.
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long way to work to be fit at round 1”The Italian, after having informed fans that he was suffering from nagging and recurring shoulder pain for last few weeks, decided not to wait a minute longer had Dr.
Porcellini, who also did the shoulder surgery on Valentino Rossi, operate on him at the Cattolica Hospital.
The surgery revealed damaged ligaments, including the supraspinatus tendon, that is part of the rotator cuff group of muscles and an additional three screws were inserted into his shoulder.
Melandri will have to keep his arm strapped to his chest for next three weeks (sound familiar?), before being able to start any rehabilitation and training and with the first round at Phillip Island at the end of February, it will be a race against time to get fit, with Melandri stating that he’ll try to to limit his riding problems at the Island and hopes to be in better shape at the Donington round, which is a full month later.
