Aaron Ross talks about his injuries and surgeries
Professional BMX rider, Aaron Ross, underwent an ankle surgery to clean up bone spurs last Friday, April 15. However, he is not done with the doctors yet. Next week, the etnies/Sunday/Odyssey pro has scheduled a knee surgery to get a piece of floating bone
removed from it.
Talking to a journalist yesterday, April 21, Ross shed some light on the injuries and surgeries that have been a highlight of his life for a while now.
The pro rider from Corpus Christi, Texas, got a surgery on his left ankle. Ross explained that throughout his career, he had been getting his ankle injured. However, rather than giving it ample time to heal 100 percent, he would just wait for it to heal
substantially and get back on the bike again.
He used riding as a physical therapy to speed up his recovery process. As the time progressed, two bone spurs stuck out due to the calcium build up in his left leg. They hindered his ankle movement, though that was not the worst of it. The worst came when
he accidently hit it, which was something that was almost impossible to avoid.
According to him, he could hit the spurs while doing something as basic as putting on pants, let alone performing a trick on the BMX. The moment the spurs got hit, an excruciating pained followed. However, the pain used to subside after a couple of days
and he felt fit enough to ride one again. This had become a routine over the last two years.
Ross said that he had been planning on getting the spurs removed since a long time, but for some reason kept delaying his trip to the doctor to schedule a surgery. However, on a recent trip, he injured his ankle and knees. Of course there was a lot of pain
and he got handicapped for a couple of days as always. However, this time the pain was too much to bear and he decided to get a surgery scheduled within a week as soon as he got home.
Getting the surgery scheduled took a little more time than he expected. It took three weeks and by this time, he had recovered and was riding fine. Though there was a lot temptation to skip surgery as he was feeling good and riding fine, he decided to go
on with it anyway. He had enough of worrying about hurting his spurs and the pain that followed all the time.
In Ross’s words, “I'll be able to ride on trips every day again, and I'll be happier. And I won't get hurt just randomly pedalling down the street anymore.”
With the left ankle taken care of last week, Ross said he’ll be getting another surgery in a week and a half. This time, it is going to be for the left knee. He explained that he has a bone chip, almost the size of a penny, which has been bothering him for
quite some time now. In his recent trip, while his ankle was hurting, the bone chip jammed up in his knee joint, locking up the knee and putting him in a greater handicap and discomfort.
Even though he recovered in two days and the knee has not locked up since, but Ross knows that the problem with return as it has done as every few months. So he’s going to get the bone chip taken care of. The 24-year-old pro rider explained that the doctors
are waiting for the left leg to become a bit stronger after the ankle surgery before they operate on the knee.
Talking about his recovery, Ross said that he is feeling much better. He has started walking already and the pain is nothing that he cannot handle. The doctors are impressed at his healing rate as well. He said, “I had surgery last Friday, and I'm already
walking pretty normal, and there's not a lot of pain. Obviously, bike riders have a higher pain tolerance than most people, but what my ankle feels like today is better than what it would feel like if I rolled it.”
The official reports state that Ross will be able to ride again by June 1. Even though the BMX pro feels that he will be able get back on the bike within three weeks time, the doctors want to ensure that the healing process is complete before he starts pedalling
again. The good news is he’ll be back before the BMX summer season kicks off.
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