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Original article: www.nevasport.ru/articles.php?id=8234
Because of his soccer player friend, Evgeni Plushenko will have the necesary time to recover for the Olympic Games. Instead of surgery, that would have made the very well know Petersburg skater be off ice for two or three months and would have prevented him to have a normal Olympic season 2005-2006, Plushenko went through a less heavy procedure last week. He was operated in Germany so skillfully in Dr Ulrich Muchavek's clinic that he won't even get scars from it. But the important thing, athletes that had signed off from the Munich clinic, that had gone after similar operation, have returned to trainings within a month. On March 17th, when Plushenko was removed from the World Championship in Moscow, the official medical reason about the illness was "a syndrome in the joint muscles of the left thigh". The specialist from TSITO where the skater and his coach Alexei Mishin went, specified the diagnosis "a microtear of...." (don't know how to translate this but I believe in of Nat's articles in KOI there is the exact word). According to the figure skater's manage Ari Zakarian, neither Plushenko or his trainer wanted to go under surgery. To go under the surgeon's knife did not promised anything good for the ex-world champion and his preparation to the Olympics games. And here is when the help of Alexander Kherzakov arrived. The two stars of St. Petersburg's sport were introduced last year ago and they got along so well, that Plushenko along with his girlfriend Maria, were the witnesses on Kherzakov's secret wedding in early March. Wedding that even some of the Zenith's player were not invited. (Zenith is Kherzakov soccer club). Pains in the groin region is not uncommon in soccer players - it's not a catastrophe, but something common. Kerzhakov advised to his best man to turn to the doctor of the "Zenith" Mikhail Grishin. And on March 23th, when the striker himself (Kherzakov is Zenith's striker) already left to join the Russian team to prepare for their qualifier match againt Lichtenstein, Plushenko went to Zenit's base. Doctor Grishin, after inspectioning the patient, has doubted of the veredict of his colleagues (TSITO specialists) and assumed that Zhenia's pain come, most likely, from the break in the inguinial rings. And he recommended to check his diagnosis in the Munich's clinic, where during December of 2004 with the same diagnose (inguinial rupture) was operated the defender of the "Zenith" Pavel Maresh. The hernia that Plushenko had has appeared bilateral and everything in two hours was moved away (disappeared) through special punctures. Soon after the operation, Alexei Mishin brought Plushenko back home to Petersburg. After 10 days - period, during which the figure skater is forbidden to move, Plushenko and Mishin, as its known to the correspondent of "St. Petersburg messenger", are intending to go abroad to restore his health. Since the best figure skater in the world was not cut with the usual scalpel, the seams, capable of being crawled away from the load, it's not necesarry to superimpose. And in the first half of May, Plushenko (if there is no complications) should start training. However, in the show that will take place in Saint Peterburg in honour of the 60th anniversary of the victory, Mishin's student, most likely will not attend.
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