The Repsol Honda Team rider, Dani Pedrosa, went into the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus de Barcelona hospital after a flight from Malaysia. Upon arrival and after the releveant diagnostic tests it was confirmed, by the team of doctors directed by Dr. Xavier Mir, Head of the Hand Surgery and Microsurgery Unit, that Pedrosa has “a fracture on his second metacarpal on his right hand with three diaphysary fragments, which are the bones found in the middle section of the metacarpian.”
The operation, which began at 14:00, consisted of, according to the statement made by Dr. Mir himself, in “first reducing the fracture and then fixing the fracture with a seven holed titanium plate”.
Dr. Xavier Mir later said that the operation proceeded without any untoward happening and was completed according to plan, he also indicated that if there are no post-operation compn training and his usual sporting activities is unknown since in this type of case it is surprising how quickly top level professional sportsmen recover their abilities compared to the minimum period of the 6 weeks that are needed by most patients with the same kind of injury”.
