Skier injured in the head –
Operated, Cyprien Sarrazin will “attack his rehabilitation”
Victim of a violent fall during his training, the French athlete had to undergo an operation to resolve an intracranial hematoma.
Published today at 10:54 a.m.
According to his doctors, Cyprien Sarrazin “still has a little difficulty opening his eyes, because he suffers from diplopia”.
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French downhiller Cyprien Sarrazin, seriously injured in the head after a fall during training on December 27 in Bormio (Italy), was repatriated to Lyon on Friday and his Alpine Ski World Cup season is over, the team announced on Saturday. French Ski Federation (FFS).
“Cyprien was transferred yesterday (Friday) to a Lyon hospital, at Médipole, where he is hospitalized in a neurosurgery care department where he will begin his rehabilitation,” Stéphane Bulle explained during a video press briefing, the doctor of the French alpine ski team.
Victim of a violent fall during the second official training before the downhill and super-G in Bormio, Sarrazin, 30, has since been hospitalized in Sondalo (northern Italy) where he was operated on to resolve an intracranial hematoma .
“He suffers from diplopia”
“We’re going to start allowing him to do things that everyone does, namely sit, eat, stand. Today, he still has a little difficulty opening his eyes, because he suffers from diplopia, that is to say that the reflexes which coordinate your two eyes are a little disturbed following the “hyperpressure in the skull,” continued the doctor.
“He is very tired, he really has a hard time communicating. When you come out of this period of coma in quotes, you are really exhausted,” continued the doctor.
For the rehabilitation of the Haut-Alpin, world No.2 in downhill last winter, “we are talking about months, we are not at all about recovery in weeks”, which excludes a return to competition this winter.
“I am relatively calm”
The descender, winner of four races last winter including a resounding double in Kitzbühel (Austria), will continue his rehabilitation at the Henri-Gabriel center, still in Lyon, “which really has a specificity in neurological rehabilitation for people who have had accidents car, people who have had enormous trauma,” said the doctor.
“For the final assessment of potential injuries (which will be done in the coming days, Editor’s note), I am relatively calm. He seems to be doing really well at the moment,” Doctor Bulle insisted.
Asked whether Sarrazin could resume his career, the French team doctor was clear: “I have absolutely no idea where this is going to take us. I can’t tell you. But anyway, that’s our goal.”
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