Pacquiao: I’m doing rehab myself, I can now raise my arm!

By Boxing News - 07/20/2015 - Comments

Floyd Mayweather vs Manny PacquiaoBy Chris Williams: In response to criticism from his promoter Bob Arum for him missing a meeting with his doctor on July 18th to begin his rehab on his surgically repaired right shoulder, superstar Manny Pacquiao sent a message today saying that everything is fine and that he’s started his shoulder rehab on his own without meeting a doctor.

Pacquiao feels that he’s ahead of schedule for his shoulder rehab. Pacquiao isn’t saying where he learned how to rehab a surgically repaired right rotator cuff injury, but he seems to feel that he knows what he’s doing. But without Pacquiao’s surgically repaired rotator cuff being examined by his surgeon, he’s flying blind by doing exercises that might not conducive for the proper healing of his shoulder.

“I respect Bob Arum. He’s just like a father to me. I believe he’s just voicing his concern and I appreciate it. I don’t take it negatively,” Pacquiao said via supersport.com. “But he has nothing to worry about. I’m doing the rehab myself. I’m recovering faster than expected. I can now raise my right arm.”

Some boxing fans might see this statement from Pacquiao and read it as a sign of him never having a shoulder problem to begin with. This is what a lot of fans actually believe. They believe that Pacquiao faked the shoulder injury that he had said was caused during his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. last May 2nd. They feel that Pacquiao brought up the shoulder injury bit as an excuse for him having lost a fairly one-sided fight 12 round decision to Mayweather. This is all conspiracy stuff, of course. But when you see Pacquiao saying he’s rehabbing his surgically repaired shoulder on his own without meeting with his surgeon who specializes in helping people come back from injuries if this time, it may cause some fans to wonder whether Pacquiao ever had an injury to begin with.

Arum recently said to the Boxingmirror.com “When you have an operation like that you’ve got to get into rehab. You’ve got to get the doctor to look at it and to guide you as to the kind of rehab that you’ve got to do…As far as I’m concerned he’s not an active fighter.”
Coming back from a torn rotator cuff is extremely difficult for any athlete, so you can understand Arum’s concern with the issue. There are a lot of athletes that are never able to come back from surgery of this kind. It’s one of the more difficult injuries for a sports person to come back from. For Pacquiao not to be meeting with his surgeon after surgery to have him guide him through rehab, it does seem a little irresponsible on Pacquiao’s part.

If Pacquiao comes back from this and only has the use of his left arm, he’s going to be right back where he started from before his trainer Freddie Roach taught him how to use his right hand a decade ago in 2005. If Pacquiao is only going to fight one or two more fights before he retires, then it might not matter if his right arm is never the same. He can get a big money rematch against Mayweather, as long as he comes in at the right price, and then maybe fight one of Arum’s Top Rank stable fighters like Terence Crawford as a favor to Arum.



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