Anonymous
7/27/2025, 6:50:47 PM
No.18374434
>>18374263
Tokyo Sports from when he got the surgery in May:
>On the 8th, Tetsuya Naito (42), who left NJPW on the 4th, was discharged from a hospital in Kanagawa after undergoing surgery on his *right* eye. Ahead of his freelance activities, Naito had expressed a desire to focus on physical maintenance and had originally planned to undergo surgery on his left eye, which has long been affected by strabismus. However, in an unusual twist, the procedure was suddenly changed to operate on his right eye instead. So what exactly happened?
>Since 2019, Naito had been suffering from diplopia (double vision) caused by impaired function of the superior oblique muscle, which pulls the eye inward and downward. He had previously undergone three surgeries on his right eye and one on his left. This time, he checked into the hospital on the 7th intending to have a second surgery on his left eye.
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>His left-right field of vision had already improved after the surgery on his left eye late last year. This latest procedure was meant to adjust vertical and horizontal alignment. However, after reexamining him, the doctor concluded that rather than operating on the left eye, it would be best to perform a recession and half-belly inferior displacement of the right medial rectus muscle.
>It was previously believed that only three surgeries could safely be done on the right eye, but depending on the technique, a fourth (or more) is possible. “They explained that there are different ways to go about it, and that really reassured me,” Naito said. Still, a wrestler undergoing four surgeries on one eye is almost unheard of. “I mean, how many wrestlers out there have had surgery on the same eye four times? Might be a Guinness World Record, right? I’m actually thinking about applying seriously. I’m a freelancer now, after all—got flexibility,” he joked while begging for a stop at a McDonald’s drive-thru along the way.
https://x.com/okamotospo/status/1920584743021871138
Tokyo Sports from when he got the surgery in May:
>On the 8th, Tetsuya Naito (42), who left NJPW on the 4th, was discharged from a hospital in Kanagawa after undergoing surgery on his *right* eye. Ahead of his freelance activities, Naito had expressed a desire to focus on physical maintenance and had originally planned to undergo surgery on his left eye, which has long been affected by strabismus. However, in an unusual twist, the procedure was suddenly changed to operate on his right eye instead. So what exactly happened?
>Since 2019, Naito had been suffering from diplopia (double vision) caused by impaired function of the superior oblique muscle, which pulls the eye inward and downward. He had previously undergone three surgeries on his right eye and one on his left. This time, he checked into the hospital on the 7th intending to have a second surgery on his left eye.
...
>His left-right field of vision had already improved after the surgery on his left eye late last year. This latest procedure was meant to adjust vertical and horizontal alignment. However, after reexamining him, the doctor concluded that rather than operating on the left eye, it would be best to perform a recession and half-belly inferior displacement of the right medial rectus muscle.
>It was previously believed that only three surgeries could safely be done on the right eye, but depending on the technique, a fourth (or more) is possible. “They explained that there are different ways to go about it, and that really reassured me,” Naito said. Still, a wrestler undergoing four surgeries on one eye is almost unheard of. “I mean, how many wrestlers out there have had surgery on the same eye four times? Might be a Guinness World Record, right? I’m actually thinking about applying seriously. I’m a freelancer now, after all—got flexibility,” he joked while begging for a stop at a McDonald’s drive-thru along the way.
https://x.com/okamotospo/status/1920584743021871138