Following a few days of worry regarding the injury of Wolverhampton Wanderers star Raúl Jiménez, Wednesday saw good news coming from both England and Mexico.
Yesterday, we covered the quotes from national team manager Tata Martino, who said he’d spoken to the striker and that all was going well in his recovery.
Wolves then released a statement explaining the player is making good progress and should leave hospital next week.
Now it’s time for a Mexican doctor to give his opinion on how Jiménez’s recovery will go. Rafael Ortega, who according to ESPN is well respected by footballers, was interviewed and claimed that the striker will have no problems in playing again.
“In Raúl’s case, a timely and rapid diagnosis was made,” doctor Rafael Ortega told ESPN.
“They drained the haematoma that is generated in any fracture, they stabilised his fracture and afterwards comes a healing process of the bones that normally takes approximately three months.
“It’s more or less the time necessary for a bone to be consolidated again and logically later there will come a time when he’ll have to wear a protective helmet. From my point of view he has a very good prognosis, I’m sure that Raúl will return very well, at a very good level and that we’ll have him available for our national team, helping the national team to have a very good World Cup for the year of 2022.”
However, the doctor also claimed that Jiménez should take some precautions to avoid any other incidents which could complicate the injury, and that could include avoiding any headers for a while.
“I’d recommend wearing a protective helmet for a period of four to six months to take care of his integrity as patients of this type of trauma do, and while he recovers, remove the authorisation to hit the ball with his head.
“Raúl may be playing thanks to the qualities he has, he perfectly has the ability to play great games with his legs, he can play a little behind the centre-forward, at least during the first months. But I think he will not have any problem to return to the pitches.”
For now, Wolves make it clear that there’s no forecast for Jiménez’s return to the team.
