Injury, the matter becomes further complicated and now his own career is at stake: running to JMedical.
It may take 4 weeks. Or, it could take 8, even 10. It is difficult to make predictions about the timing, when the diagnosis is still so uncertain and so little information is available. The truth, in fact, is that around the situation of Jannik Sinner there’s still a giant question mark.
What is certain is only, right now, that the South Tyrolean champion has decided to entrust himself to the expert hands of JMedical. For the rest, what he generically labeled as a “hip problem” could be anything. The blue has not been unbuttoned, which is why the ideas about it are still fragmentary and very confused, as well as insufficient to be able to outline a more precise picture. The hypotheses on this matter, however, have literally been wasted. And some of them, unfortunately, are very scary. There are even those who have gone so far as to fear the risk that his career could be in the balance, if it were established – we hope not obviously – that it was a coxarthrosis.
However, there are many hypotheses on the table, as can be seen from the interview that Michele Zasa, medical director of the Clinica Mobile, and Alberto Fioruzzi, hip expert, gave in the last few hours to Mowmag. “It is likely – said Zasa, when asked about the nature of Sinner’s injury – taking into account the type of sport he plays and considering that he has not suffered any trauma from what we know, that it could be an overload problem, linked to the soft tissues, the structures surrounding the hip joint. It could also be a problem of wear and tear and initial arthrosis of the hip. We can only speculate about this.”
What’s really behind Sinner’s injury?
The fact, then, that Sinner questioned his participation in the Roland Garroshas persuaded many that it is not, as we are led to believe, a banal one inflammation.
“In the end, what is known – said the doctor – is that he underwent an MRI and then a CT scan of his hip, and no official diagnoses were communicated after these tests. So yes, it is difficult to think that it is an inflammation caused by overload due to extremely close tournaments, rather than, as was said, by the change of terrain.”
“There are many functional hip pathologies – he observed in the interview with Mowmag – linked to sporting activity and high-level activity. All pathologies that cause symptoms in the hip, inguinal area and lower abdominal area, each of which has its own specific treatment. Obviously the first thing to exclude is that he does not already have a situation of joint degeneration with high-grade chondropathy; therefore, it means a hip that is degenerating with cartilage that is deteriorating and this is the slightly more serious one. Then there are also distant pathologies, which do not have a direct connection with the joint, they are extra-articular pathologies; therefore, they affect all structures around or near the hip.” An extremely murky situation, therefore, in the absence of certain information from the person concerned. Which we hope will obviously disprove all the secondary hypotheses formulated in the last few hours.
