Müller-Weiss syndrome
Rafa Nadal suffers from a degenerative and chronic disease that was detected in 2005 and could have ended his tennis career.
Rafael Nadal He has had a professional tennis career full of success, becoming one of the best players in the history of this sport, champion of 22 Grand Slam tournaments. However, the Balearic tennis player’s record could have been almost nothing, compared to the current one, if the most pessimistic diagnosis had come true, on a chronic disease that was detected with 19 years and that could well have ended his career when he had just exploded as a star in the world. circuito ATP.
In 2005, Rafael Nadal Parera He was just 19 years old and was number two in the ATP ranking. That was the year in which he managed to win the most titles in his sporting career, a total of 11, and after winning the last one, Madrid MastersNadal received a diagnosis fatal, which put his permanence in tennis at a professional level at serious risk.
«The most important injury of my career was when I was 18 or 19 years old, which was my foot, after winning the Madrid Masters in 2005. That disease, Müller-Weiss, it made my life change and took a turn. “They told us that perhaps he would not be able to play sports professionally again,” he said. Nadal in a recent interview, in which she also opened up about other topics of a sporting nature, values and even touching on controversial issues such as feminism.
In the talk, part of the program The objectiveof The sixth, Rafael Nadal He confessed that there he had spent the hardest moment of his entire sporting career, on top of other very important injuries and defeats on the track. «From that I learned to live with doubtswith the pain… and they had prepared me for adversity since I was little,” highlighted the champion of 14 Roland Garros.
Müller-Weiss Syndrome, the disease that Rafa Nadal suffers from
Rafael Nadal He must live with a degenerative disease, which, as he himself has recognized on more than one occasion, is chronic and incurable. the osteochondritis of the scaphoidalso called Müller-Weiss syndromeis the injury suffered Rafael Nadal and that represented the hardest moment of his sports career, as well as a penance that he has had to deal with over the years.
OKDIARIO, through its specialized section, OKSALUD, contacted the doctor Elvira Iglesias Duránhead of section of the Ruber Juan Bravo Hospital Complex, Quironsalud Madrid, who explained what the degenerative disease he suffers consists of. Rafael Nadal on his left foot. “It is a foot bone dysplasia called navicular or tarsal scaphoid that almost always occurs in childhood and is suffered in adulthood.
This is how Nadal detected his foot disease
He Müller-Weiss syndrome appeared from one day to the next in the life of Rafael Nadal, but he did it to stay. In 2005, the Manacor player exploded as a world tennis superstar, winning 11 titles, including Roland Garros or the Madrid Masters, which was then held in the month of October and on a hard court, at the Madrid Arena. After winning the title, coming back in an epic final against a specialist like Ivan Ljubicicin an extraordinary atmosphere with the entire public devoted to him, Nadal received the stick.
«The day after becoming champion I woke up lame: I had a small scaphoid disease, which was thinner and broke in half. “I have that lump that is that separated area,” he said in an interview on the program My House is Yoursin 2020. That was his first contact with the disease, with the Müller-Weiss syndromewho years later continues to make him receive specific treatment and who even came close to avoiding his latest conquest in Roland Garrosin 2022.
2024-02-15 10:10:19
#life #change
