FEARLESS motorbike ace Adam Jenkinson - almost killed in a spectacular track crash - has made a 100 per cent recovery after intricate surgery at a Macclesfield hospital.
Wythenshawe-based Jenkinson, 23, who was riding a Suzuki for Rocket Centre Racing, Blackburn, in the National Superstock Championship, was hurled off his machine at almost 100mph in a race at Mondello Park in Ireland last summer.
Jenkinson suffered a fracture and dislocation so serious that his shoulder actually moved round to his back.
But techniques carried out by brilliant surgeon Mohammad Waseem has now put the biker back on the road to recovery.
Jenkinson recalled: "I was crushed between two other bikes in the race.
"I was hit by one and then I got sandwiched by another as I fell to the tarmac.
"I've had accidents before - I've had my pelvis broken. I normally never think I am going to snuff it though - on this occasion, I did."
Track-side medics tried to push Jenkinson's dislocated shoulder back into its socket, but without success.
"My whole shoulder on the left side was pushed out of where it should be and had actually gone round my back," he recalled.
"The fall had broken a bone at the top of my shoulder in two places and torn ligaments.
"I have had some injuries before, but this was painful! I am quite muscular so trying to get the shoulder back into the socket was like putting a tennis ball in a golf-ball-sized hole."
In agony, the rider was patched up at a Dublin hospital.
"When I returned home to England I knew there was a 70 per cent danger that it would pop out again, and I couldn't have that because my career depends on having good mobility," said Jenkinson, who lives with his girlfriend Anya and nine-week-old baby Alfie in Wythenshawe.
Recently, Jenkinson has been elevated to British Superbikes, signing for the SMT Honda team.
He is recovered enough to make his 2008 debut on April 6, on an ex-Hydrex Racing bike.
Regency Hospital surgeon Mohammad Waseem said: "On a scale of difficulty, this was about eight out of 10. A third of his socket was missing and I initially had to put wire in as part of the process.
"The injury was quite a terrible one. But we are now using the technique involved once or twice a year and Adam has been doing very well.
"If you get a patient who doesn't want to recover, there is not much you can do, but Adam really motivated himself," said Mr Wassem, 44, who lives in Macclesfield.
"I seem to be getting a lot of motorbikers coming to me these days.
"I put a plate in one patient's hand last Wednesday and he was riding again on the Sunday."
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