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The Austrian sprinter ended up under the knife in Graz, but the recovery will be very long. The explanation of the doctors: "The knee has undergone a rare dislocation in these cases, fortunately the nerves were not involved".
Monday 21 December 2020 3 minutes reading time
Three days after the terrible fall in the first descent of Val d''Isère, the situation linked to Nicole Schmidhofer and her left knee destroyed in the impact against the compression networks on the Oreiller-Killy emerges clearly.
The unfortunate Wunderteam downhill skier did not “simply” break the crusader and the collateral, but the injury is much more serious than expected. Basically, we're talking about a dislocated fracture, “because the knee was pushed back and then out, which doesn't happen often. All the ligaments were broken and the bone was also affected, but the great fortune is that there were no injuries to the nerves and blood vessels ", explained to the Austrian media Dr. Juergen Mandl, who took care “Nici” in Graz.
After doctor Fink's visit to the Hochrum clinic in Innsbruck, the reference of the Austrian national team, it was decided to transfer her to Graz for the first of a series of interventions necessary to reconstruct the joint. In fact, Schmidhofer will have it under the knife for the next ten weeks, before being able to restore the ligament apparatus and then begin with re-education.
The former super-g world champion talked about what happened, finally feeling relieved and happy “because at least now I have a plan to follow and I know what to do. I can't even describe the pain felt, not even comparable to that of 2016 (when the cruciate of the right knee was broken, ed). They gave me a painkiller still on track and I just asked to make a phone call to my mother, to let her know that after all something irreparable had not happened, as I consider myself lucky not to have broken my spine or have had damage to my head.
At the time of the accident I didn't think about it, but I understand that many may have thought about what happened to Silvano Beltrametti. The knee will settle down ”.
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