Rafa Nadal is already resting at home after receiving this Tuesday, at the Teknon clinic in Barcelona, a pulsed radiofrequency treatment on the different nerves involved in the area of the injury he suffers in his left foot, as confirmed by his team in a release. A session that could be repeated depending on the evolution of your injury in the next two weeks.
Nadal, who won his 14th title at Roland Garros on Sunday, was visited by the doctor Angel Ruiz-Cotorropersonal doctor, of the Spanish Federation (RFET) and director of the Mapfre Clinic of Tennis Medicine.
The intervention that was carried out was on the “sensitive nerves that occupy the pain in the affected area and give it sensitivity. With this treatment the nerve is temporarily numb“, they explain in their statement.
A performance in the affected area that Dr. Ruiz-Cotorro has assessed, in statements to Cadena Ser, this morning: “We had to go one step further in the treatment of Nadal. We will have the evolution in three or four days and we will know if it is effective in two weeks.”
Nadal “will be 3 or 4 days with normal maintenance physical activity“, they add and add that “it will be later when depending on the evolution of the treatment, and As long as this is positive, I would resume training on the track“.
“We do not rule out that a second treatment could be carried out depending on the evolution in the next week”, they point out in a statement.
