Tommaso Ciampa was on Edge & Christian’s podcast and they all discussed their history with surgeries. The former NXT Champion talked about his recent neck surgery and why it was so different from his previous ones.
“It’s different from every other injury,” explained Ciampa. “When you hurt your knee, you’re like, ‘I cannot perform like this, I need this fixed.’ When you hurt your neck, you feel like you can perform. It’s a mental game where it’s hard for you to grasp why you need to fix it. I was still in the gym and training but now that it’s over with, you wake up symptom free and suddenly you can close your hands, you can grip, you can sleep. It’s crazy. Then you know that you needed that.”
Ciampa then opened up about his fears that were eventually relieved by his wife. “I was so freaked out having neck surgery this young. Talking to [my surgeon] with my family, he left the room, and she [said to me], ‘This is like brushing his teeth for him. He does this every day, numerous times.’ It really put me at ease. Yes, this is foreign to me, but he does it all the time. He was so confident that it let us relax mentally.”
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