Wolves official: Doherty s scaphoid fracture surgery is successful, and it is not expected to be missing for too long

On October 7, the Wolves officially issued a statement reporting the injury of defender Doherty.

Doherty injured his wrist navicular bone in the game against Bournemouth on August 23. After wearing a protective brace for several games, he underwent surgery last Monday, which caused him to miss the game against Brighton.

This injury also caused Doherty to withdraw from the Irish team's game mission in the next week, but he is not expected to be sidelined for a long time. The 33-year-old player has had a positive impact after returning to the team recently.

Wolverhampton Wanderers director of performance Phil Hayward said: "Doherty had injured his navicular bone - a small bone in the wrist. He fell while making a tackle and landed hard on his hand, causing pain in his wrist. "We then did some scans and realized the bone had been fractured and knew surgery would be required to repair it. The scaphoid is a bone that is notoriously difficult to heal well without intervention. "

"Once a fracture occurs, the damage is essentially done at that point, so the question is finding the right time for surgery within six weeks from the initial injury, so we're getting towards the end of that six-week period, so we decided to do it at that point. Surgery. Many bones in the body can often heal without intervention if they are well aligned, but the blood supply to the navicular bone is quite complex, and once the fracture line passes through a specific point on the bone, there is a high likelihood that no bony connection will be established between the two different parts of the fracture. "

"In the short term, immobilization with a brace to prevent any movement, or any kind of further injury if another fall occurs, is quite safe, so we weren't too concerned about causing any further damage before surgery. "

Hayward himself accompanied Doherty to Manchester, where the famous hand surgeon Mike Hayton performed the surgery. Hayden's work is more involved in hand movement-based sports such as golf and cricket, but he has also performed surgery on and advised football goalkeepers in the past. For Doherty, the surgery took an hour and was a success.

Hayward added: "We have been working with Mike regularly over the past five or six years. It was a fairly straightforward surgery, with a small screw driven through the center of the bone under CT guidance. We were very pleased with the placement of the screw, good fixation, and very happy with the post-operative results."

"For these more complex problems, especially where we know surgery may be necessary, we tend to follow the advice of the experts. From the earliest days of the injury, we Maintain very open communication with them to discuss potential treatment options and the timing of such treatment."

"During the surgery, one of our staff members will be on hand to observe the surgery and then discuss the post-operative recovery plan. There will also be a lot of communication with them over the next few weeks as we begin to gradually return to training and competition."

Doherty has returned to the base and is doing personal training in the gym. "He's very eager to come back, but obviously, we need to respect the fact that he just had surgery. In addition to actually repairing the bone, the surgery itself causes a lot of other associated inflammation in the area that we need to wait for to subside. The surface of the skin obviously needs some healing as well," Hayward said. "We need to get through this early stage before we can start really pushing him back into training again. If he does fall on that hand and cause complications with the surgery, the aftermath is quite a lot of work." Difficult, so we must be careful and respect the surgeon's advice. "

"He should be completely fine, the success rate of this type of surgery is very, very high, and he should be able to return to training fairly quickly. We can quickly start him on non-contact training and non-fall risk activities on grass to maintain his fitness levels while the bone heals. Once he's ready to return to play and withstand full contact, he should be able to make a smooth return and regain his fitness level. "