RRafael Nadal has shown since his debut in world tennis that he is made of a different wood, of a material that resists and always returns.
Multiple epic battles have been the ones that the Balearic Islands have given him to his followers and to the detractors that he has within this sport.
But there is a war that we never stop having, a fight that lives since he was 19 years old and that only for moments defeats her but then returns.
Its about Mller-Weiss syndrome, a malaise that was diagnosed in 2005 and that to date suffers.
This is a rare lesion that it is degenerative and that there is no cure. Which may be Nadal’s weak point depending on how he is presented during the games.
for 12 years the one from Mallorca fights against rivals and also against Müller-Weiss, but in most cases he defeats them.
What is Mller-Weiss affliction?
This so-called Müller-Weiss syndrome is also known as scaphoid osteochondritis.
The scaphoid is a bone that we have both in our feet and in our hands and that is vital for the functioning of the extremities.
“In the case of the foot, it is called the tarsal scaphoid, and is part of the middle column of the foot.. If it becomes deformed, it can affect movement and be very painful”, announces the Traumatology and Physiotherapy Clinic in Malaga.
This is one degenerative illness and it is a dysplasia of the foot bone called scaphoid.
Diagnosis is complicated for doctorsbecause it can only be made known to the patient when it is very advanced.
What are the symptoms of Müller-Weiss?
Experts say that it appears at an early age, however, until adulthood is when the symptoms appear Of the same.
The patients “they present intense pain on the back of both feet, asymmetric, of long evolution timebeing able to make movement enormously difficult”, announces the Malaga Clinic.
Other secondary symptoms are Gonalgia (knee pain) due to the alteration in the mechanics of the lower limb and the Gonartrosis (arthrosis of the knees), caused by the aforementioned.
