Wolves officially issued a report on the injury situation of defender Doherty.
Doherty suffered surgery last Monday after injured his wrist-snail bone against Bournemouth on August 23, after subsequently wearing a protective brace, which left him missing against Brighton.
This injury also caused Doherty to withdraw from the Irish team's game mission the next week, but it is not expected to leave him out for a long time, and the 33-year-old has had a positive impact after his recent return to the team. Phil Hayward, Wolves Performance Director, said: "Dorherty's wrist snail bone - a small bone in his wrist - was injured. He fell during a tackle and his hand hit the ground, causing pain in his wrist. We then did some scans and realized that the bone was broken and knew that surgical repair was needed because the wrist snail bone was a well-known bone that would be difficult to heal well without intervention."
"Once a fracture occurred, the injury was basically caused at that moment, so the problem was to find the right time for surgery within six weeks. From the initial injury to now, we are close to the end of this six-week period, so we decided to do it at this time. Surgery. Many bones in the body can often heal themselves without intervention if they are well aligned, but the blood supply of the scaphoid bone is quite complex, and once the fracture line passes through a specific point in the bone, it is very likely that the bone connection cannot be established between the two different parts of the fracture. "
" In the short term, it is quite safe to use braces to prevent any movement, or to prevent any further injury of any kind when falling again, so we are not too worried about any further damage before the surgery."
Hayward himself accompanied Doherty to Manchester, where the surgery was performed by the famous hand surgeon Mike Hayden. Haydn's work involves more of a hand movement, such as golf and cricket, but he has also performed surgery and advised football goalkeepers in the past. For Doherty, the operation took an hour and was very successful.
Hayward added: "We often asked Mike for the last five or six years. It was a pretty straightforward procedure, with a small screw passing through the center of the bone under CT guidance. We were very satisfied with the position of the screw, well-secured, and very happy with the results after the surgery."
"For these more complex issues, especially when we knew that the surgery might be needed, we would tend to listen to the advice of experts. From the early stages of the injury, we kept very open to communication with them, discussing potential treatment options and timing of such treatments."
"During the procedure, one of our staff members would be on the scene to observe the surgery on the day of the surgery and then discussing the post-operative rehabilitation plan. In the next few weeks, as we began to gradually resume training and competition, there would be a lot of communication with them."
Four days after the surgery, Doherty had returned to the base and had personal training in the gym.
Hayward said: "He is very eager to return, but obviously we need to respect the fact that he just had the surgery. In addition to actually repairing the bones, the surgery itself causes many other related inflammations in the area and we need to wait for these inflammations to subside. The skin surface obviously needs some healing, too."
"We need to go through this early stage before we can start to really push him back to training again. If he does fall to that hand and causes complications in the surgery, the remedy afterward is quite good." It's difficult, so we have to be careful and respect the surgeon's advice. "
" He should be completely fine, the success rate of this type of surgery is very, very high, and he should be able to resume training fairly quickly. During bone healing, we can get him to start physically contactless training very quickly, as well as activities on the grass with no risk of falling to maintain his physical fitness. Once he is ready to return to the game and endure full physical contact, he should be able to return smoothly and get back to physical fitness. "