The chief medical officer of the MotoGP World Championship, the doctor Angel Charte, you could not believe it on Thursday morning when you received the call from Honda advising you that you should pass a query to Marc
Marquez in the circuit of Jerez. “Are we crazy or what?” He said to his interlocutor. And hung up the phone. It was the first step for the Repsol Honda rider to get on the bike this Saturday at the Andalusian GP, just 4 days after having undergone surgery on a humerus.
Medical protocol
“All movements involving this type of injury were practiced and he performed them perfectly, there were no symptoms of pain or mechanical disability. Although it seems strange to us, it was positive ”
“I am the first surprised”, Comments the Barcelona doctor to The vanguard. “But one thing is what I think, and another, the medical protocol, and according to the code (of the World Cup), the pilot has the right to request an exploration, after 48 hours of the operation or anesthesia, to be able to participate in the next race ”. And this is what was done with Márquez, as well as with Cal Crutchlow and Álex Rins.
From exploration, practiced by the doctor charter, assisted by Dr. Houssam
He
Mahmoudi (medical director of the circuit) and the doctor Giancarlo Di Filippo (FIM medical director), Márquez was successful: “I did a battery of hard tests, I was very hard on him,” explains the World Cup doctor.
According charter, “All movements involving this type of injury were practiced and he performed them perfectly, there were no symptoms of pain or mechanical incapacity of the right upper limb, therefore, the exhaustive medical examination, although it seems strange, gave positive: the pilot is perfectly prepared to run ”, he explains. Among other tests, Charte began to do 40 push-ups Marc. “He did them in a row, with a jerk, and the rest of the tests, without a bad gesture of pain.” So “it perfectly meets all the rigor of medical protocol for this type of injury, despite what people may think.”
Three reasons for the ‘fit’
According to Charte, Xavier Mir did a very good operation, the humerus fracture is not serious and Márquez is “very strong”
For the MotoGP medical director, Márquez is “apt“To run in Jerez is due, not to a miracle, but to three factors: “He doctor Xavier Mir operated very well (in the Dexeus-Quirón University Hospital of Barcelona; Secondly, not a serious injury, the humerus evolves rapidly and nothing is going to stop it, nerves and tendons do not cross it; and thirdly, Marc is very strong; This fracture takes at least two weeks in other patients. ”
According to Charte, the 93 is “to run, but it will not be 100%”. In addition, it must be taken into account that the pilot must compete with pain and “with normal anesthesia.” The doctor intuits that Márquez “has studied the humerus from top to bottom, he knows what crosses it and what does not, and he is not brainless.”
The risk exists
“If he falls we will be in trouble, but if he looks good, he will throw,” predicts Dr. Charte
And another thing will be the risk of a new fall. “If he falls we will be in trouble,” he adds, recalling the case of Jorge Lorenzo in 2013, when he fell 15 days after the left clavicle operation, he lost a race and said goodbye to the World Cup. “But if it looks good it will pull”.
