The disappointed Belgian had this to say about his injury after consulting docotrs, ‰ÛÏSunday night I was in so much pain, so I knew we had to do the operation. Dr De Schrijver who has operated on me before performed the surgery and he said it went well.
"The tear has been fixed and the inflammation removed. Now I am in a cast for a week or 10 days, with the plan then to remove it and see how the recovery is going. If all goes well, I‰Ûªll replace the cast with a brace so I can start to do some more things with it.
"From then on, we have to see how it goes before I can give a real estimate for my next race. Prior to the operation, they said it‰Ûªd be around four weeks before I can start mountain biking and then six weeks before I can be back riding motocross, only if everything goes really, really well.
‰ÛÏI prefer to take it week by week though and see how it‰Ûªs progressing because I don‰Ûªt want to come back too early and have the inflammation return. I‰Ûªm going to rest-up for now and try to let it heal as much as possible before this next check-up. Then we‰Ûªll have a bit more of an idea about my recovery period.‰Û
