West Ham United Football Club News

• Nickname:Hammers
• Founded:1895
• Manager:Sam Allardyce

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Bellamy undergoes surgery

05 Oct 2007 - 13:53:39

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West Ham United hope to have striker Craig Bellamy back in action in a couple of weeks, after he underwent hernia surgery in Germany.

The 28-year-old Wales international has not featured for the Hammers since mid-September and has been forced to go under the knife to try and cure his injury problems.

Head physio, George Cooper, told the club's official website: "We went out there because he had a scan that showed he was a candidate for a sports hernia and we wanted to seek an opinion because he had two problems.

"We wanted to establish if the hernia was causing his pain or if it was his groin.

"After consultation with the specialist, she deduced all symptoms were due to the hernia and she demonstrated this to me under an ultrasound on an MRI scan and showed me where the problem was.

"She then advised he had the operation and predicted he would be back within 14 days. So he had the surgery, it went very well and he walked out of the centre the same day and we flew back later that night.

"He can start running three days after the operation, building up to sprinting after five days, then gradually building up to training and playing within a fortnight."