A FEARLESS motorcycle racer who was almost killed on the track has made a full recovery after pioneering surgery.

Adam Jenkinson, from Wythenshawe, was hurled from his machine at almost 100mph in a race at Mondello Park in Ireland last summer.

He suffered a fracture and dislocation so bad his shoulder moved round to his back.

But techniques carried out by Cheshire-based surgeon Mohammad Waseem have now put the biker back on track.

Adam said: "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 die though. On this occasion, I did."

Track-side medics tried to push Adam's dislocated shoulder back into its socket, without success.

He said: "My whole shoulder on the left side was pushed out of where it should be and had actually gone round my back

"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.

Muscular

"I am quite muscular so trying to get the shoulder back into the socket was like putting a tennis ball into 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 Adam, who lives with his girlfriend Anya and nine-week-old baby Alfie.

"I went to the Regency Hospital, Macclesfield, and they used keyhole surgery techniques with wire to keep it stable. They gave me a special sling which I had to wear for 14 weeks, even to sleep in, and I am 100 per cent now and don't foresee any more problems in the future."

At the time of the crash, he was riding a Suzuki for Rocket Centre Racing, Blackburn, in the National Superstock championship.

But recently he has been elevated to British Superbikes, signing for the SMT Honda team.

He has recovered enough to make his 2008 race debut on April 6.

Surgeon Mr Waseem, 44, 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.

"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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