Guitarist Nita Strauss revealed earlier this year that she sustained a torn meniscus in her knee while touring with Alice Cooper. Strauss made news over the summer when she exited Cooper’s band and joined up with Demi Lovato.
Nita told Detroit’s WRIF in October: “I’m babying myself right now because I’ve been touring with a torn meniscus since May. So I’m actually not as injury prone as I usually would be, because I’m taking it a little easier.“
”I have surgery scheduled at the end of this tour, between Rams games and everything else I have going on. So right now I’ve been playing through the most serious injury I’ve ever had and really just trying to take care of that, make sure it doesn’t get worse before it gets better.”
Strauss also said she has had to take cortisone shots in order to deal with the pain while performing on stage in recent months. “I’ve had two (shots),” she said. “I now can’t have any more because it’s too close to my surgery date. It’s getting tough now, but we’re making it through.”
“All I can really do is keep it under control,” she explained. “It’s just the realities of running around on stage for 20 years; every once in a while you’re gonna get hurt.”
On Thursday, Strauss provided an update: “I have a little knee update, for those who’ve been wondering. I did have my pre-op last week, and, unfortunately, it didn’t go exactly as I hoped it would. According to my doctor, eight months of performing on a torn meniscus did not do my any favors.”
“The injury has not improved; unfortunately, it’s gotten worse. So surgery has had to be pushed to the end of the year — after Christmas, after the last Rams game — and then it’ll be a full month before I can do anything at all again. So no shows, no performing, no nothing. I’m super disappointed at that; I was hoping to already be on the mend by now. But it is what it is.”
Last month, Strauss released a new solo single and accompanying music video, “The Wolf You Feed”. The track features a guest appearance by Alissa White-Gluz of Arch Enemy.
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