The Operation Led To The Gap Between Scott Steiner's Pectoral Muscles Steiner was put in a medically-induced coma and then moved into surgery. During the operation, the doctors had to cut through his pectoral muscles, his ribs, and his lungs in order to repair the tear in his trachea, sewing up the wound while Steiner remained in a coma.

The physical disorder that Scott Steiner has is known as ‘muscular atrophy’ in medical terms, which involves the partial or complete degeneration of a given muscle or muscular group.