Rafa Nadal’s medical part after receiving treatment in Barcelona

Rafael Nadal is already in Manacor. The Roland Garros champion returned home after spending Tuesday in Barcelona, ​​where undergo pulsed radio frequency treatment at the Teknon clinic to improve his left foot problems.

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The player is visited by his personal physician, Dr. Ángel Ruiz-Cotorro, who performed “pulsed radio frequency treatment of the various nerves involved in the area of ​​the injury you are experiencing. These are sensory nerves that cover the pain in the affected area and give it sensitivity. With this treatment, the vein is temporarily numb. “

According to the medical part, Nadal’s roadmap now includes spending 3 or 4 days maintaining normal physical activity, after which he will resume training on the court., as long as the foot response is positive. “We do not rule out that a second treatment may be carried out depending on evolution next week,” the statement added.

all of this with the goal of getting to Wimbledonthe third Grand Slam of the season which begins in London on June 27th.

Manacorí finally chose this route with the hope of continuing to play. “If it works I will continue playing, if not, this is another story, I will consider if I am willing to have surgery.”, He pointed out in the last days after his recent success at Roland Garros, where he had to play with his sleeping foot to cope with the pain.

In September 2021 he underwent surgery on the scaphoid of his left foot, suffering from Müllers-Weiss syndrome, a degenerative disease due to scaphoid malformation. It causes general foot swelling, constant pain, often unbearable even for Rafa Nadal’s long -suffering.

“If the new treatment works, I’ll be back next year. I’ll keep fighting to keep playing“, he stressed after lifting the champion trophy in Paris.