UFC President Dana White says this week's surgery offers 70% chance of eliminating Meniere's disease issues

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

When Dana White returns to Las Vegas this week, he'll be undergoing surgery in an attempt to take care of his issues with Meniere's disease. However, the procedure he'll be undergoing is very different from the one he was initially presented with this summer.

Meniere's is a condition of the inner ear that can lead to bouts of vertigo and other issues for those afflicted, and White has been hit by bouts of symptoms throughout the year. The typical surgery for the disease entails cutting a nerve that deals with equilibrium, but that also brings about an extensive rehab and is only a 50/50 proposition for patients.

White still wanted to get that this summer, but the doctors would not go along with it. Now, though, White has revealed they have a different procedure that has a better percentage chance of working. Not only that, but it's an outpatient procedure that will not require the extensive rehabilitation the other option entailed.

"I don't give a s--- what it does," White said of the surgery after UFC 153 on Saturday (via MMAJunkie.com). "I just want to do it to see if it works."

"They actually have this new thing they're going to try on me. The one thing was to cut the nerve, but they're not going to cut the nerve. They're going make an incision in the back of my ear, and they're going to insert a tube. I'll have a 70 percent chance of this not coming back, which I like better than 50 percent."

White said he'll be right back into the swing of things the very next day, and hopes this procedure finally takes care of an issue that has hampered him throughout 2012.

Penick's Analysis: Having an extra 20% chance of this surgery working out is definitely a positive, and the fact that there isn't the same extensive rehab of the other surgery is a good thing for White as well. Still, it's the type of thing where he might be better served taking a small break with this instead of bouncing right back into the swing of things. Obviously he's an immensely hard working person, and there's always something going on, but when it comes to his health it's something he should give himself at least a little bit of time with. Especially considering they've got a few weeks in between events now. But he'll handle it how he handles everything, by diving in head first, and hopefully this surgery takes care of the issue.

Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_14683.shtml

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