The plague of the compartment syndrome attacks the motogp again, but there are strange exceptions

The plague of the compartment syndrome attacks the motogp again. On his return from Jerez, one of the circuits that often compromised the arms, two pilots passed the operating room to repair their damage. The afternoon of March 29 is Pedro Acosta Finally surrendered and accepted to operate and this Thursday is the Thailandés Rookie Somkiat Chantra The one who passed through the hands of Dr. Xavier Mir at the Dexeus of Barcelona. The two are expected next week to Le Mans, where on Thursday before the France’s GP they should search for OK OK.

Acosta tried to keep his problems in his right arm and even on the termas de río Hondo, where they had shown, explained that the only time he experienced it was on his first motorcycle at MotOGP, but category he claimed that the operation “was not an option, I never opened and I didn’t think right now.” After a long month they agreed that he had to give it to the evidence. The less invasive treatment has no longer worked.

This evil has to do with the pilot’s own activity as the hand continues to take and it does the muscle fibers of the arms to permanently withdraw and ‘incline’ blood vessels and nerves. Here we should add the greatest aggressiveness to accelerating and braking motorcycles and thus constantly falling. The most common symptoms are fatigue, pain and loss of strength in the hand, as well as a reduction in tactics in the fingers.

Initially, physiotherapy and ergonomic techniques were usually tried to resolve, such as changing fist grip, but if they were chronic, only the surgery in which the fascias of the affected muscles were opened. Now in 10 days they can compete again and even make poles and podiums, as is the case of Fabio Quartaro in two of his interventions.

Up to three operations in five years

The normal thing affects the right arm, but inside the motogp grid there are pilots who run the same arms, as the case of Alex Rins (2015), Alex Márquez (2016) or Miguel Oliveira (2016) and both Rins and Oliveira operated again as motogp Pilots in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Although some have passed three times by the operating room to solve his problem with the right arm, such as Fabio Quartarara Subject -following 2019, 2021 and 2024. Up to twice, in just one year, Raúl Fernández It must be operated in 2023 and 2024, which is the first to be important as it affects nine muscles and demanding incisions at three points.

This is not until the end of the 2023 campaign and after debuting when Gresini Team’s GP23 handlebar when Marc Márquez The right right arm is operated by 2020 radius fracture. Current champion Jorge Martín will have to work at the beginning of the 2019 campaign, his first year in Moto2.

The glorious exceptions

Noticeably, none of the motogp pilots of VR46 Academy (Bagnaia, Marini, Morbidelli and Bezzecchi) have to work due to the syndrome compartment, or at least it has not been publicly announced, or boss Valentino Rossi in his 26 years of career. In 2021, another season filled with operations, they were asked about both Bagnaia and Morbidelli and blamed him for the kind of intensive training outside the races they brought to the ‘Ranch’. The morphology of his arms also helps.

Has to do with the pilots of SpainMaverick Viñales It has not passed yet. “I have never had that problem in any category. So I don’t know, I don’t know what caused the syndrome compartment.” Nor is it necessary to operate Joan Mir, Although it appreciates it in the winter of 2022 after many stages including Honda. Two other pilots free of this illness, or that has not passed here because of surgery, are Enea Bastianini and Brad Binder.

Among the rookies, the first fall was Chantra who was in the Moto2 stage began to suffer from illness. The afternoon Ai ogura He did not experience it as he changed the category, yes Fermín Aldeguer, But so far he has not been chronified.