Tadej Pogacar will need six weeks of recovery for his scaphoid fracture
Euskaraz irakurri: Tadej Pogacarrek sei aste beharko ditu Liège-Bastogne-Liejan pairatutako eskafoide haustura sendatzeko
The Slovenian cyclist UAE Team Emirates Tadej Pogacar will need six weeks of recovery for your scaphoid fracture, as reported by his team this Monday; Pogacar, what suffered a fall on Sunday in Liège-Bastogne-Liège and went operatedas a result of the mishap, a few hours later, it is considered “lucky”for having fractured “only the wrist”, but see, in this way, hindered his path to the Tour de Francegiven that he will not be able to participate, at the beginning of May, in the concentration in height that the UAE Team will carry out in Sierra Nevada.
In this context, as Dr. Adrian Rotunno stated in a statement released by the UAE Team, Pogacar suffered in Liège-Bastoña-Liège “a scaphoid fracture with double fracture in the bone, which required a small screw to realign the bone fragments. The procedure was successful and he will begin his recovery period at home”, indicates the doctor, who adds that, “due to the nature of the injury, the recovery is approximately six weeks”. Although he will begin with immediate rehabilitation and some training , the runner will train indoors for a few days.
“In addition to two wrist fractures, Tadej has many injuries to his hands, which first have to heal completely, after which he can start training carefully indoors,” Dr. Rotunno said on Sunday.
Given this medical evaluation, and given that the fall was hard, Pogacar has stated that he feels “lucky” for having fractured “only the wrist”: “I hope that Mikkel Honoré”, also involved in the fall, “will recover soon, since his accident was even harder”, he pointed out on his social networks.
Source: Eitb
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