Hav🗹ing struggled for mobility since his post-Mugello wrist surgery, former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has gone back under the knife.

Hayden had hinted at the po✨ssibility of upcoming surger🧔y at last Sunday's Sachsenring round:

"I n𓄧eed t🍌o 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 lasted 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 in the wrist in order to increase mobility within the joint.

Dr. Chao reported that the operation had been a success and that Hayden now has🌺 increased range of moꦿtion in his wrist.

Hayden will soon begin therapy and has until the end of the summer break, at Indianapolis꧙ on August 8-10, to regain fitness.

The American twea𝓀ked 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 t🅘he first year of a two-year deal at Aspar, is 13th in the world championship, one place and four points behind༺ the top Production Honda rider Scott Redding.