• Medical discharge Barça recovers Ansu Fati

In that Barça orphan of references, with a coach,

Ronald Koeman

, screwed on the scaffold, and a president, Joan Laporta, who is looking for someone to replace him, there can be no greater hope than

Ansu Fati

.

A good part of the institutional and sports illusions of the entity have been deposited in a child prodigy of barely 18 years old and who has had his left knee operated four times. He took on the shirt with

Messi's

number 10 with conviction

, Barcelona's social networks rushed to publicize his return to a call-up with a video, and even the sponsors ran to welcome the boy. This Sunday, against Levante, he will put on some boots again - "at most 15 minutes", according to Koeman - after ten and a half months full of tears, pain and medical battles.

The first time Ansu underwent surgery was on November 9, 2020. It was Dr. Ramon Cugat who would be responsible for both suturing the torn meniscus and making it heal. The forward should have recovered after four months. It was not so. The meniscus did not suture, no matter how much biological treatments were insisted upon. The knee was swollen. His knee ached. They reopened in January. Also in March. And, six months after suffering the injury, on May 6, the family was already fed up and his representative,

Jorge Mendes

, Ansu Fati was intervened for the fourth and last time by the Portuguese

José Carlos Noronha

, doctor of the Portuguese team and of

Cristiano Ronaldo

.

This time, yes, to remove part of the meniscus.

A decision that, according to sources close to the club, should have been made much earlier.

"The day I put on my boots for the first training session I asked the club for permission for my father and brother to be there. When they saw me jump, run and touch the ball they cried. Me, too. It was a very exciting day for my family. ", explained the forward to the official media of Barcelona.

And now that?

"Like that of an express pot"

"The future of Ansu Fati is that between the ages of 30 and 40 he develops severe knee osteoarthritis. And, possibly, at 45 he is forced to have a knee prosthesis, which should not be put on before the age of 60. It is what it usually happens when you remove the meniscus to a person who is going to dedicate himself to forcing that joint. " Who exposes it is the renowned traumatologist

Vicente de la Varga

, director of the Advanced Center for Sports Medicine CAMDE. You know well what you are talking about. He has seen, for example, how

Míchel

, the former footballer and now Getafe coach, is unable to bend his knee "more than 15 degrees". Little more or less than

Bernd Schuster

.

The explanation is simple. It is contributed by De la Varga: "The cartilage will begin to suffer because the meniscus is missing, which would become a joint. Like that of an express pot. It is what makes the femur fit with the tibia. Ansu has lost practically 50% of the meniscus, so the knee is more unprotected. Between the ages of 18 and 30, you should do well if you take care of the muscles of the legs and are applying biological therapies. As you do not have the meniscus, the cartilage of the femur and the tibia rub against each other. and they wear out. And you have to replace it. How? With hilauronic acid, with platelet-rich plasma, with stem cells so that what wears out can be covered. But there is a limit to everything. Wear will end up going faster than everyone else. the treatments that you can apply. Although it will not be before the age of 30 ".

Dr. De la Varga recalls how in the 1980s it was common to remove the menisci.

"

Pedro Guillén

, who is the father of Spanish arthroscopy, always said the same thing. When he started the soccer players they removed their complete menisci because then it was said that they were embryonic remains that had no value. He even kept them in methacrylate and had a meniscoteca. But later it was shown that one of the main mechanisms to stabilize the knee is the menisci. If you remove a sufficiently important fragment from an 18-year-old boy, in less than 20 years he will have osteoarthritis of the knee. a person who is already 40 years old will suffer from osteoarthritis in less than two years. "

Postmeniscectomy syndrome

Barcelona does not want to take any risk with Ansu Fati. Although, according to De la Varga, it will be difficult for the area to bring him complications now. "When you remove a meniscus and the player begins to train, there are times that having removed that pad causes the articular cartilage to become overloaded and an inflammation called post-meniscectomy syndrome occurs. It is the adaptation of that knee to be without a meniscus and to play sports. That's why you have to be careful at the beginning. It's very bloody because it hurts a lot. But if you haven't done it already, you won't do it anymore. "

Ansu Fati will not have to change gestures.

This only happens when chronic pain occurs.

Nor should you be afraid of new serious injuries in the same area, although the risk is always there: "Theoretically, there is danger, but it does not usually happen. Playing without crossed always leads to breaking the menisci sooner or later. But it is very rare for missing the meniscus you have acute injuries, beyond the progressive wear of the cartilage that will eventually cause osteoarthritis, "insists De la Varga, who ditches:" Once removed, it will undoubtedly affect your personal life. "

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