Having struggled for mobility since his♏ post-Mugelloꦯ wrist surgery, former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has gone back under the knife.

Hayden had hinted at the possibility of upcoming surgery at last Sunday's Sachsen🌜ring round:

"I need to go home and get healthy. I keep 'crying' about it and it sounds like I'm complaining, but the truth is that I'm really suffering a lot and it's tough to ride this bike with one arm.💧 I'll go home and see some doctors and see what we can do."

On Wednesday morning at 6am the Drive M7 Aspar rider duly underwent an operation that la🔯sted an hour and a half, carried out by Dr. Chao at the Oasis Center in San Diego.

The medical term for the procedure is a 'proximal row carpectomy with radial styloidectomy' which involves the removal of a row of small bones ꦰin the wrist in order to increase mobility within the joint.

Dr. Chao reported that the opera𒁃tion had been a success and that Hayden now has increased range of motion in his w💙rist.

Hayden will soon begin therapy and has until𒁃 the end of the summer break, at Indianapolis on August 8-10, to regain fitness.

The American tweaked his right wrist during round three at Jerez, the ongoing ෴inflammation prompting the #69 to withdraw from Mugello and head for the previous surgery.

Hayden, in the first year of a two-year deal at Aspar, is 13th in the w🧜orld championship, one place and four points behind the top Production Honda rider Scott Redding.