WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash has been dealing with a herniated disc and shoulder injury, and he recently opened up about his health.
On the latest episode of his Kliq This podcast, Nash said that he recently felt something “pop” in his shoulder, and almost immediately went to get it looked at. After going to the doctor, however, Nash noted that he’s been feeling better and his injury as almost freeing, in a coincidental way. (H/t Fightful for the transcription.)
“I felt something pop in my shoulder. So that was last Monday,” Kevin Nash said. “So today is what, ten days? One thing I have learned in my old age is, if you feel something that’s f-cked up, until you get the MRI, until you get somebody to look at the MRI, because there’s a real good chance that you could have a partial tear, and then go in there and f-ck around and have a full tear, and then they gotta try to pull shit together.
“So I’ve learned, save it so they can at least stem cell it. Maybe you can avoid the surgery. So I went in there today, he went through the whole thing, and I just asked him, I said, ‘Can you show me my outside bicep tendon?’ He showed me that. I said, ‘Can you show me the inside?’ He showed me, he showed me all my different rotator cuffs. Then he showed me a pretty decent bone spur on the end of my humerus.”
Kevin Nash Details His Shoulder Injury
Nash then noted that he was told that it looked like he broke some scar tissue loose. However, he said that his shoulder did not hurt anymore.
“But he just said that I have so much arthritis that, he said probably what happened was, there was an area that looked like scar tissue that I broke loose,” Kevin Nash said. I had some cysts and bone spurs that they cut. So they cut all the way through, so when they did it, I think that is what split.
“Because I was actually having a hard time pulling up a pair of my shorts on my left side. But since I’ve done this, the first day I got up and pulled my underwear on, I’m like, there’s no pain on the back of my shoulder. So it actually was freeing.”
Kevin Nash Has A Pinched Nerve
Nash went on to say that he also found out that he had a pinched nerve in his shoulder, and that he would eventually have to go back and have a piece of bone taken out of it. He also said that he was slated to undergo more stem cell therapy.
“You look at this scar and it’s all black and blue and purple, and it looks like somebody shot a shotgun in my shoulder,” Kevin Nash said. “Finally, the scar tissue opened up,” Nash said. “So but tomorrow would be my first day back in the gym, and it’s like 40%, take it easy. Warm up, stretch, come home, ice. I got away with one, I was training, that day that I f-cked it up early in that workout, I was training heavy. I did a set of eight reps. I said, f—, man, you skated by, and then the other thing was, they did an EMG, where they checked the nerve impulses. So they put needles in you and they shoot electric current down your leg, and my L3, left side, that nerve, is being pinched.
“But he said it’s not where it’s not gonna recover. We’ve got to get the stenosis, the bone growth on that, once that disc herniated, it’s just too much pressure. I talked to the spinal surgeon, and they’ll be able to just go in, like the size of a McDonald’s straw, and take that piece of bone out. Minimally invasive procedure. I’m still scheduled to go to BioXcellerator down in Columbia. I’m just waiting to get everything worked out. I had to send them my MRI of my lumbar. I sent them my report, and they just needed a better image than they had. There’s only so much you can do with stenosis, with stem cell, but my shoulders right now will flourish.”
Kevin Nash On Needing A Procedure
Nash also touched briefly on his back issue, which he says is a herniated disc at two different levels. He stated that he’ll need to have a procedure done to help his disc health.
“I’ll have to get that piece taken out,” Nash said. “It’ll help all my disc health, besides that disc that’s just really f—–,” said Nash. “It’ll help, and I think you’re very minimal for six weeks of what you can do once you have the surgery, and at three months, you have no restrictions. So if I can get this thing done mid-December, and we go mid-January, mid-February, mid-March, it’s not nicer yet. So by the time I get in the gym, I’ll have my beach body ready.”
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