Kevin Nash reveals torn biceps injury, will undergo surgery

Kevin Nash provided an update on several of his injuries during the latest episode of his Kliq This podcast.

In previous episodes, Nash mentioned that he needs shoulder surgery but is hopeful he’ll only require a minimally invasive procedure. On today’s episode, he revealed that he’s also dealing with a torn biceps, something that MRIs he had last month missed.

“I got the MRI, my orthopedic looked at it and he said there’s not a tear, I don’t see a tear in your biceps. When the radiologist read it, there were no tears in any of my rotator cuffs,” Nash said on the show.

However, when Nash resumed training recently, he started to feel his biceps cramping while working on a curl machine.

“At about nine reps, I could just feel my left biceps cramping and I was just like and I was just like, ‘Oh f–k me,’ because when you tear a biceps, it cramps.”

Nash believes that previous damage he’d done to his biceps likely led to the earlier MRI being inaccurate.

“Not to blame the MRI but I’ve got so much hardware in my shoulder that’s holding everything together that when they take an MRI, you get a lot of artifact so you don’t get really true readings,” Nash said.

“I saw my orthopedist, and we sat down and reviewed slides of my bicep tendons, which appeared intact at the time,” he continued to say of the MRIs that missed the biceps tear.

Nash says he’ll undergo a procedure to correct the tear, which will keep him out of the gym for six weeks. 

“What they’ll do is they’ll go in and they’ll make an incision and then they’ll weave sutures into the tendon that’s there hoping that it hasn’t already retracted all the way.”

“You basically drill a hole through the humerus and stick the bicep tendon through the humerus.”

The full episode is available below: