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August 4, 2011
World Wrestling Entertainment performer John Morrison returned to the tour little more than a month after undergoing neck surgery. The procedure – by WWE medical director Joseph Maroon, also a Pittsburgh Steelers doctor and National Football League concussion policy-maker – involved removal of a bone spur and fragment from Morrison’s C5-C6 cervical disc area.
Morrison, whose real name is John Hennigan, has acknowledged in interviews that the nerves are not properly “firing” through one of his arms and he is taking a crazy risk.”I’m coming back before I’m 100% healed,” he told the Canadian fan website SLAM! Wrestling. “With nerve injuries, it’s really weird. My doctor said that from [the week leading up to his return], I could be 100% healed in the next three weeks or the next year. It’s kind of a mysterious injury.”
Morrison added: “I was, like, ‘I can’t wait a year.'”
Keith Harris of Cageside Seats opines, “Maroon shouldn’t be in the business of tailoring his clearances to meet the wishes of the performer he is treating and the company he works for.”
Irv Muchnick