Aspinall on ending injury nightmare: "Obviously finding out that news cleared my head, I'm a new animal again"

Nathan Aspinall has endured an injury nightmare in recent months which was potentially career threatening but he received news that it isn't as bad as first thought.

He revealed at the recent MDA Armageddon exhibition that he has had another injection which he believes will sort it.

"I've had a cortisone injection last Monday and hopefully that should be the end of it. If not, they will do a little operation where they shave a bit of the bone away, that's only four weeks so yeah massive positives," he said to Online Darts.

"Obviously finding out that news cleared my head, I'm a new animal again. I've backed that up with some wonderful runs on the ProTour.

"For the last three or four months that I've been playing, I've been thinking I'm going to snap it. If I have the operation, am I ever going to come back. All these thoughts going through my head."

But for Aspinall, he now has the pressure off due to not defending hardly any ranking money and has the freedom of climbing to the top again.

"I'm defending absolutely nothing this year. I think I'm defending Quarter-Finals at the Grand Slam, everything else is first round.

"I know what I can do, everyone who's a part of darts knows how good I can be. I can be the best player in the world so it's nice to not have that added pressure."