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U2's The Edge says Bono 'can't move for the next couple of months' after accident

U2 guitarist The Edge has revealed that Bono has been told not to move for the next "couple of months".

The singer suffered a fractured face, shoulder blade and broken elbow after falling over his bicycle handlebars recently in New York's Central Park.

Speaking to KROQ's Kevin & Bean Show, The Edge said that Bono's injuries were pretty severe and that he has been ordered to stay put by doctors.

The guitarist said: "He managed to come out of it with what you could only describe as injuries from a car crash, literally, multiple fractures of bones in his elbow and in his back But he's doing OK.

''We're kind of lucky he was wearing a helmet so he didn't actually break Central Park. But he's made of of tough stuff and he's bouncing back. He's been told by his doctors that he's got to stay put. He's back in Dublin right now and basically he can't move for the next couple of months.''

The musician continued: "The poor guy. Basically his left elbow was shattered so a lot of the work was reconstructing the joints and putting in wires and plates. He actually showed us an X-Ray a couple of days later and it looked like a miniature of the Eiffel Tower was in his elbow and then the same had to happen with a fracture of his pinky, the joint there was totally messed up, so that needed a bone graft.

''And the most vulnerable was actually his upper back, the scapula because they couldn't put any plates in there or they decided not to do surgery. So he has got to be very still and not move around 'til that's really healed. He's doing physio to keep the joints active twice a day."

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