Compartment syndrome is hitting MotoGP riders again

The pilot of Barcelona alex rinses He went to the operating room at the Ruber Internacional Clinic in Madrid this Friday to undergo surgery for compartment syndrome in his right arm, as he said on his social networks. Although the new LCR Honda rider has been suffering from illness throughout the campaign, it was in the middle of the holiday period when he decided to undergo surgery and thus arrive in full condition at the start of the 2023 preseason, with the change of motorcycle for him after finishing his Suzuki stage.

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Compartment syndrome is a temporary increase in pressure within an anatomical cell, which consists of muscle groups and the fascia that covers them. It mainly occurs in the legs of marathon runners and the arms of motorcycle riders and although it is an easy problem to solve, it requires a trip to the operating room to perform a fasciotomy where the fascia is cut to relieve the pressure. .

Compartment syndrome has become the most common injury among MotoGP riders and there have been several repeated cases of riders undergoing surgery, such as Alex himself, who underwent surgery in 2015 when he was racing in Moto2 on the same arm.

During the 2021 season, four drivers went through the ‘caja’ for a month and a half: Iker Lecuona (April 6), Jack Miller (April 7), Fabio Quartararo (May 4) and Aleix Espargaró (May 17) – except for the Miller cases. who operated years ago – joined in September by Johann Zarco and then began an intense debate between the riders who linked the pain to the greater power of MotoGP, although it is a problem that is always present in motorcycling history and that, for example, ended the race of the champion Freddie Spencer and the drivers who brake the hardest have the most options. Tracks like Jerez, Mugello or Assen are the most testing of them.

Several riders from the current MotoGP grid escaped the aforementioned operation. Let it be known to the Spaniards Maverick Viñales, Marc Márquez or Joan Mir even though the Mallorcan, Rins’ teammate at Suzuki, is suffering from this disease in the last Grands Prix of 2022 -in Malaysia he is about to quit the race- and even verbalized that probably this winter he will have to go through the operating table.