New Delhi: Indian Boxer Vikas Krishhan, the Olympic campaign which ended suddenly after the right shoulder dislocated caused a round loss, had undergone surgery to repair an injury that would make him not in action for the next three months.
The 29-year-old player, who competed at the Third Olympics in Tokyo, was forced to leave early after “fighting with one hand” in the opening clash against Japan’s Sewon Okazawa.
Surgery on his dislocated shoulder was carried out at the Kokilaben Mumbai Hospital by the famous surgeon of Din Din Dinshaw Pardiwala, who operated and repaired a shoulder injury that threatened a new career for the gold winner Olympiad Neeraj Chopra had been suffered in 2019.
Dr.
Pardiwala has also operated top.
Cricketers like Jasprit Bumrah and Shreyas Iyer along with Star Shuttler Saina Nehwal, among others.
“I will return in three months, I have been convinced by Dr.
Pardiwala.
My shoulders dislocated and the important muscle, called subscapularis muscles, and the ligament has been torn,” said the decorated boxer to PTI after the operation that took place on Thursday.
Subskaparis muscle is important for movement and strength on the shoulder.
Vikas took an injury during a training trip to Italy before the Olympics.
Unaware of the severity of the damage, he competed at the Olympics after taking an injection that killed the pain.
Dr.
Pardiwala said that remembering the scale of injury, painkiller drugs would not be enough.
“It was quite handsome for him to go ahead and fight with the fight.
But I think that’s what the top athletes do, they emptied the pain,” Dr.
Pardiwala told PTI.
“He told me that he experienced a dead arm during the fight.
It took three weeks for healing must be resolved and three months for rehabilitation before he could fight again,” he said.
Vikas is one of the strongest bets for medals in the match but injury destroyed his hopes in the first battle.
“He might think it’s just a pain and he can get away.
It is common for athletes to feel it.
But the injury is quite severe.
However, we have fixed everything now, it is a two-hour operation,” Dr.
Pardiwala said).
After losing it in Tokyo, India’s high-performance director Santiago Nieva also said that the former Asian game and the Commonwealth Games Meam struggled with one hand due to injury.
Vikas applied the shoulder during the fight and could not move his right hand, which led to the loss.
“I believe everything that can happen to me has happened and I will get out of it stronger and better.
I won’t give up,” he said.
The Five Indian men’s boxing contingent has disappointing sightseeing because only Satish Kumar (+ 91kg) can record victory in the game.
He went out in the quarter-finals.