Michael Kightly undergoes surgery to end knee problem
Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Michael Kightly is set to seek specialist treatment on a knee injury that has left the winger out of the game for almost a year.
The midfielder will travel to Sweden to meet with a specialist before undergoing surgery to cure the persistent injury.
Kightly injured his patella tendons while he was in the process of recovering from an ankle injury last season.
"We've decided to try something different to try to speed up my recovery. On a couple of occasions, I've actually stepped up my rehab and got close to getting back, only to not quite make it. So I'm going to have the operation to try and push my recovery
on."
Kightly will undergo the surgery on Thursday, 28 October, but the player has not put any pressure on himself on the subject of when he will return to action.
"There's still no timescale on my recovery, but I'm feeling positive and hoping that this will help me complete it."
The Wolves medical department has tried to be patient with the injury, but they now believe that surgery is the only way to eradicate the damaged tendons.
Wolves’ Steve Kemp who is overseeing Kightly’s recovery said, "The patella tendon can be such a troublesome injury, as some other high profile professional athletes will [testify], and we have tried to avoid surgery up until now.
"The conservative rehab has got us so far, but we are unable to get him to the level required for Premier League football."
Kightly faces a long battle in returning to full fitness and Matthew Jarvis will be difficult to displace from the Wolves team if and when the winger returns.
But Kemp is hopeful that the surgery will be a success and said, "The surgeon in Sweden is a specialist in tendon management who is world-renowned in his field."
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