Murray
ANDY Murray has gone under the knife once more to solve his ongoing hip problems.
The 31-year-old has been battling issues with this joint for over a year and initially underwent a hip operation last January.
However, after a first-round exit at this year’s Australian Open he finally decided to have a second operation by having hip resurfacing surgery.
An alternative to a hip replacement, it involves removing the damaged surfaces of the bones inside the hip joint and replacing them with a metal surface.
An advantage to this approach is that it removes less bone. However, resurfacing is much less popular now due to concerns about the metal surface causing damage to soft tissues around the hip.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday morning, the British star uploaded two pictures of himself in hospital post surgery.
“I underwent a hip resurfacing surgery in London yesterday morning… feeling a bit battered and bruised just now but hopefully that will be the end of my hip pain,” he wrote.
“I now have a metal hip as you can see in the 2nd photo and I look like I’ve got a bit of a gut in photo 1.”
The two-time Wimbledon champion was debating having the procedure, which involves putting a metal plate into the joint, in a final bid to prolong his career.
Prior to the Australian Open, Murray had announced that he intended to retire after this year’s Wimbledon.
Murray’s plans are now unclear following surgery, with his last match at present being the valiant five-set defeat by Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round.
Speaking after the defeat, Murray said: ‘”I have basically two options. One is to take the next four and a half months off, then build up to play Wimbledon.
“Tonight was not comfortable in terms of my hip. At the end, I’m really struggling. I can’t walk properly at all just now.
“I could play another match, but if I want to try to play again, I want to improve my quality of life, because even if I take four months, I still can’t walk.
“I’m still in pain doing just basic day-to-day things. But having an operation like that, there’s absolutely no guarantees I’d be able to play again. I’m fully aware of that. It’s a really big operation. There’s no guarantees that you can come back from that.
“Just now, going to walk my dogs, playing football with my friends, is the worst thing I can think of doing.
“I hate it because it’s so sore and it’s uncomfortable. Waiting another five or six months to do something like that is just another period of where I’m really uncomfortable.” – MailOnline
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