Kevin Nash recently talked about a wide range of topics on his Kliq This podcast.
During the podcast, the WWE Hall of Famer discussed his health after pulling out of recent appearances.
“I felt something pop in my shoulder. So that was last Monday. So today is what, ten days? One thing I have learned in my old age is, if you feel something that’s fucked 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 fuck 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. 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. 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,” Nash said.
“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. Finally, the scar tissue opened up. 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 fucked it up early in that workout, I was training heavy. I did a set of eight reps. I said, fuck, 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 because all that tendinitis and all that wear and tear, that stem cell will give that a nice…I’ll have to get that piece taken out. It’ll help all my disc health, besides that disc that’s just really fucked. 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,” Nash said.