WWE’s Tommaso Ciampa undergoes hip surgery
Tommaso Ciampa has undergone surgery to repair a hip labrum injury.
The 37-year-old posted to Instagram on Wednesday revealing the news. He noted that the injury had been causing him to experience glute, back, and sacroiliac (where the lower spine and pelvis connect) joint pain.
Ciampa hasn’t wrestled since a September 17 house show in Bakersfield, California. He hasn’t wrestled on WWE programming since the August 22 edition of Raw from Toronto. There is no timetable for his return.
“The road to recovery begins. It’s a familiar road. Almost too familiar.
Special thanks to Dr Emblom and his team for taking such incredible care of me. Thanks to the WWE medical team for once again putting me back together. And thanks to my ‘nurses’ at home for always giving me perspective.
It took awhile but we finally found the cause to all of that glute/SI/back pain. A hip labrum that ‘looked like shredded cheese’ according to my wife, who watched the surgery.
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