Alex Zanardi transferred to rehab center after handbike crash
SIENA, Italy — Alex Zanardi, the Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist, was transferred to a neurological rehabilitation center Tuesday, a thirty day period right after receiving seriously wounded in a handbike crash.
The Siena clinic that had been dealing with Zanardi due to the fact the June 19 crash announced that the athlete had been introduced but, in accordance with Zanatrdi’s spouse and children, did not say in which he was taken.
Zanardi underwent a few fragile surgeries at the Siena clinic to stabilize him and reconstruct his severely broken facial area, right after he crashed into an oncoming truck near the Tuscan city of Pienza during a relay occasion.
“His scientific problem and important signs have shown he’s on the road toward security, which permitted for the reduction and suspension of the sedative, and thus the chance to be transferred to a facility in which he can get the necessary neuro-rehabilitation,” stated Valtere Giovannini, director of the Santa Maria alle Scotte Hospital.
He “has shown extraordinary power, which is a precious present that he’ll require on the new challenge beginning nowadays,” Giovannini extra.
Zanardi, fifty three, who misplaced both of his legs in an auto racing crash practically 20 decades back, had been on a ventilator in a medically induced coma due to the fact the handbike crash.
The clinic would not say if Zanardi was awake or not.
Zanardi experienced serious facial and cranial trauma, and health professionals have warned of attainable mind damage.
Zanardi gained four gold medals and two silvers at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics. He also competed in the New York Town Marathon and established an Ironman document in his class.
Last thirty day period, Pope Francis penned a handwritten letter of encouragement assuring Zanardi and his spouse and children of his prayers. The pope praised Zanardi as an case in point of power amid adversity.
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