Julianna Pena of UFC told SportingNews.com she is excited to be back in the octagon after she suffered a torn hamstring and tore four of her ligaments in her knee in January 2014 and underwent surgery performed by Ronald S. Kvitne, MD, of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles.
"I think I made it a consensus goal to bend my heel to my butt," Ms. Pena told SportingNews.com about the rehabilitation process. "If I could bend my heel to my butt then I was on cloud nine…"
According to the report, this could have been a career-ending set of injuries, and understandable if Ms. Pena never returned. However, Dr. Kvitne gave Ms. Pena the confidence she would be able to return to UFC.
"At first when I went to my doctor, he told me that if I would've tore one more ligament that it would have been the end of my career. But with as good as my surgeon was and as confident as he was in the surgery, I knew that I would be returning to fighting within a year and I am…" Ms. Pena said to SportingNews.com.
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