Pro Wrestling ZERO1 Announces Chris Vice Is Set To Undergo Screw Fixation Surgery

Pro Wrestling ZERO1 shares details about Chris Vice’s injury.

Pro Wrestling ZERO1 announced that Chris Vice is withdrawing from all future events due to an injury and needing surgery.

Vice suffered the injury during training. He has torn ligaments in his ankle in addition to having a fractured fibula. The fracture can heal on its own, but the ligament damage has caused severe instability in Vice’s ankle, so that’s why surgery was chosen as the better healing route. Vice will undergo screw fixation surgery on May 20th.

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John Hopkins Medicine has the following posted about screw fixation surgery:

Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is a type of surgery used to stabilize and heal a broken bone. You might need this procedure to treat your broken shinbone (tibia) or your fibula.

Different kinds of injury can damage the tibia or the fibula. This causes them to break into one or more pieces. This might happen in the part of the bone near the knee, near the middle long part of the bone, or in the bone near part of the ankle. (A fracture here might be called a broken ankle.) Only one of these bones might break. Or you might have a fracture in both bones. In certain types of fractures, your bone breaks, but its pieces still line up correctly. In other types of fractures, the injury moves the bone fragments out of position.

There is a timetable of three to four months for Chris Vice’s return to the ring.

Vice has been with ZERO1 since 2018. He is a two-time ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion.