Mumbai: Virender Sehwag will be out of action for a period between 12 to 16 weeks.
The ICC Champions Trophy is to be played in South Africa from Sept. 24 to Oct. 5 and post-operation reports have suggested that the dashing opener from Delhi cannot return to competitive cricket until the first week of September.
Sehwag was operated on June 11 after arthroscopic investigations by Dr. Angus Wallace, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at The Park Hospital, Nottingham identified a Grade II Superior Labral Tear from Anterior to Posterior (SLAP) lesion in his right shoulder.
The BCCI announced on June 9 that Sehwag (vice-captain for the ICC T20 World Cup) had been ruled out of the competition.
According to sources, Sehwag experienced pain after the arthroscopic repair and required substantial analgesia and shoulder Cryo Cuff to ease pain.
His rehabilitation programme began soon with pendulum exercises and elbow and hand exercises. He has also been advised to do isometric exercises in static position (without moving the shoulder) and to stay in broad arm sling and continue all exercises for four weeks.
Should the initial rehabilitation schedule produce the desired results, Sehwag will be asked to free himself from the sling and begin shoulder strengthening and mobility exercises. He would be monitored by the Indian team physio Nitin Patel right through the rehabilitation programme and at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore.
He is likely to undergo isokinetic shoulder strength evaluation in order to find out if he can throw the ball after 10 weeks of the operation and also return to nets by the first week of September.
Rehabilitation
Dr. Wallace expects the SLAP lesion to heal in six weeks in order to begin shoulder strengthening and mobile exercises. The entire rehabilitation process is aimed at easing pain and for a comfortable and pain-free functioning of the right shoulder. Sehwag may return to action in September, but a tardy recovery may not allow him to play until October.
During the course of IPL-II in South Africa Sehwag fell on his right shoulder while fielding against Royal Challengers Bangalore (May 19) and in the semifinal against Deccan Chargers (May 22) and he actually experienced pain trying to lift his hand on May 23.
An MRI scan in Delhi on May 25 surprisingly did not reveal anything but another MRI in London on June 3 revealed a Grade I SLAP tear and on June 11, an arthroscopic investigation revealed a type II SLAP lesion.
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