Virginia Berasategui will go through surgery on Wednesday to remove Morton's neuroma from her left foot
The Basque triathlete Virginia Berasategui has announced that this Thursday she will undergo surgery to remove the Morton's neuroma from her left foot that has been causing so many complications for two years.
The woman from Bilbao made this announcement through her Facebook profile. "After two years of suffering and trying all sorts of alternatives, tomorrow I will finally have surgery on my foot to remove Morton's neuroma," she revealed.
The athlete acknowledged that there is "no 100% guarantee" that this procedure will permanently solve her problems, but she is confident that "it will." "I'm very tired mentally, and they tell me it's going to go well and that in a few weeks I'll be back to my best," she explained.
Virginia Berasategui began to feel the effects of this injury after finishing the 2009 Hawaii Ironman . And although she had managed to live with the pain, which has prevented her from performing reliably in running races, she has finally decided to undergo surgery.
Morton's neuroma is the thickening of the interdigital nerve that runs between the third and fourth metatarsals of the foot, and sometimes, between the second and third metatarsals.
The surgery to eliminate this injury consists of cutting the intermetatarsal ligament, proceeding to either resect or release the neuroma. The success of the intervention is not always complete and sometimes pain persists after the operation, either because the neuroma was not completely released, or because the operation was not carried out in the indicated space.
Source: noticias.yahoo.com
