Glenn Murray has been under the surgeons knife and it’s been announced that the operation went well and he’s now home beginning the long recovery process he’ll need before he can start slowly building back up his fitness.
Following his stretchering off against Brighton and the scans showing he had ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament as he fell, club physiotherapist, Alex Manos, has confirmed that the surgery went well and that Murray is now back at home recovering.
He told Crystal Palace FC.
‘It was a successful operation, it all went well and according to plan. He spent a couple of nights in hospital, but he’s now back at home and doing well.’
As for the recovery time and his potential spell out, Manos did warn that Murray may not be back and fit until 2014.
‘It’s difficult to tell an exact time frame because different people recover differently, but with this type of injury, the severity you are looking at upwards of six months. The best case is six months, but it could take up to nine or even longer.’
Manos says that at this stage of his road to recovery setting a target date isn’t helpful to him nor Murray because there are too many factors to consider.
The plan so far are light exercises for Murray to conduct at home, to keep the knee moving and help get the swelling down from the operation and then he’ll start coming into the club a few times a week to step his rehab up with pool work.
This type of recovery will be the mainstay of the first three months to build the knee back up and get the strength back, and it’ll only be after that stage will Murray start general running and depending on how that goes, then he’ll start football specific drills outside.
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