For the past few days, there’s been a stream of good news regarding the recovery of Wolverhampton Wanderers star Raúl Jiménez.
It was first the Premier League side who announced that the striker had been released from hospital following surgery.
Today, the player’s father has spoken to the Mexican press and explained that everything is going fine, as there won’t be any long term consequences of the injury.
Now the local media managed to talk to a specialist to find out how long it will take until Raúl Jiménez finally returns to the pitch, as outlet Medio Tiempo interviewed Dr. Erick Ulises Zepeda Fernández.
“If Raúl didn’t have any neurological injury, the recovery is smooth because there’s no deficit and if he had a brain injury the recovery is a little longer with different treatments. The most common is a sunken fracture without neurological injury,” said Dr. Fernández, specialist in neurosurgery.
“Normally a bone in any part of the body takes between three and four weeks to heal. If he didn’t have a neurological injury, he could be on the pitch in a month, but I think it will take a little longer to recover physically at his level, but this is if there was no brain injury.
“Skull fractures do not necessarily have to be linked to neurological injury and Raúl’s injury was surely a sunken fracture, which are the ones that must necessarily be taken to the operating room.”
In case the doctor is right, Wolves could get Jimenez back in the team with more than 10 fixtures before the end of the Premier League season.
Medio Tiempo’s story says Raúl Jimenez could be back in two or three months, even though that can’t be found in Fernandez’s quotes.
The doctor has also confirmed that it’s likely for Raúl Jimenez to start using head protection from now on.
“It would be the most correct thing for the doctor to put a protection on him at least at the beginning of his return because it’s a high contact sport, so I see it necessary to use a helmet.”
The striker, who has three goals in ten appearances for the Molineux side this season, will surely be expected to rejoin the team as soon as possible.
