Kevin Nash provides an update
WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash has been open about his health, and in recent weeks, he has noted that he is dealing with a disc herniation and a shoulder injury.
Speaking on his Kliq This podcast, Kevin Nash commented on his shoulder injury.
"I felt something pop in my shoulder. So that was last Monday. So today is what, ten days? One thing I have learned in my old age is, if you feel something that’s fucked up, until you get the MRI, until you get somebody to look at the MRI, because there’s a real good chance that you could have a partial tear, and then go in there and fuck around and have a full tear, and then they gotta try to pull shit together. So I’ve learned, save it so they can at least stem cell it. Maybe you can avoid the surgery. So I went in there today, he went through the whole thing, and I just asked him, I said, ‘Can you show me my outside bicep tendon?’ He showed me that. I said, ‘Can you show me the inside?’ He showed me, he showed me all my different rotator cuffs. Then he showed me a pretty decent bone spur on the end of my humerus. But he just said that I have so much arthritis that, he said probably what happened was, there was an area that looked like scar tissue that I broke loose. I had some cysts and bone spurs that they cut. So they cut all the way through, so when they did it, I think that is what split. Because I was actually having a hard time pulling up a pair of my shorts on my left side. But since I’ve done this, the first day I got up and pulled my underwear on, I’m like, there’s no pain on the back of my shoulder. So it actually was freeing," Nash said.
Nash went on to note that his shoulder looked rough, but it had healed, so he was able to go back to the gym. He recalled how he hurt his shoulder in the first place. Nash also detailed how he had his nerve impulses tested, and he learned that he had a pinched nerve. He noted that he would need to have a piece of bone taken out, and he was set to go back to BioXcellerator for more stem cell therapy as well.
"You look at this scar and it’s all black and blue and purple, and it looks like somebody shot a shotgun in my shoulder. Finally, the scar tissue opened up. So but tomorrow would be my first day back in the gym, and it’s like 40%, take it easy. Warm up, stretch, come home, ice. I got away with one. I was training, that day that I fucked it up early in that workout, I was training heavy. I did a set of eight reps. I said, fuck, man, you skated by, and then the other thing was, they did an EMG, where they checked the nerve impulses. So they put needles in you and they shoot electric current down your leg, and my L3, left side, that nerve, is being pinched. But he said it’s not where it’s not gonna recover. We’ve got to get the stenosis, the bone growth on that, once that disc herniated, it’s just too much pressure. I talked to the spinal surgeon, and they’ll be able to just go in, like the size of a McDonald’s straw, and take that piece of bone out. Minimally invasive procedure. I’m still scheduled to go to BioXcellerator down in Columbia. I’m just waiting to get everything worked out. I had to send them my MRI of my lumbar. I sent them my report, and they just needed a better image than they had. There’s only so much you can do with stenosis, with stem cell, but my shoulders right now will flourish because all that tendinitis and all that wear and tear, that stem cell will give that a nice…," Nash said.
Nash was also asked about his back, as he previously said that he would need to have a procedure due to a disc herniation at two levels. He said that the procedure would help his disc health, and he would not have any restrictions regarding what he could do at the three-month mark.
“I’ll have to get that piece taken out. It’ll help all my disc health, besides that disc that’s just really fucked. It’ll help, and I think you’re very minimal for six weeks of what you can do once you have the surgery, and at three months, you have no restrictions. So if I can get this thing done mid-December, and we go mid-January, mid-February, mid-March, it’s not nicer yet. So by the time I get in the gym, I’ll have my beach body ready," Nash said.
Fightful will provide more information as it becomes available.
Nash previously said that he thought he was going to NXT in December. Check out his comments here.
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