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 Bilbao native made this announcement through her 'Facebook' profile. “After two years of having a hard time and trying all kinds of alternatives, tomorrow I will finally have foot surgery to remove Morton's neuroma,” she said.

The athlete acknowledged that “there is no one hundred percent guarantee” that this intervention will definitively solve her problems, but she trusted that “it will be so.” “I'm very tired in my head, and they tell me that she's going to be fine and that in a few weeks I'll be at my best again,” she explained.

Virginia Berasategui began to feel the pain of this injury at the end of the Ironman in Hawaii in 2009. And although he had managed to live with the pain, which has prevented him from performing well in foot races, he 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