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Doctor Advises Caution about Premature Return for Pogačar
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Surgery can't happen until Pogačar's concussion stabilizes, which means his clock hasn't even started. Even a clean bill of neurological health today still leaves a clavicle fracture that typically needs six weeks to function normally — against a four-week window to Montreal.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons puts standard clavicle recovery at a minimum of six weeks, and anesthesia for the surgery itself can't be scheduled until doctors clear the concussion. That's two sequential bottlenecks, not one, stacked against a September 27 deadline exactly four weeks out. Matxín's "too early to say anything" reads less like caution and more like arithmetic — the timeline doesn't work unless the concussion resolves almost immediately and the fracture heals faster than typical.

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