Alex Zanardi completed the first cycle of the treatment path at the Ravenna hyperbaric center, where he was engaged for the whole month of January in therapies aimed at his recovery after the accident of 19 June 2020 when he collided with a truck with his handbike in the Sienese area.
The treatments, according to what leaks from the local press, would have had good results and in the spring the athlete should return to the center for a second, shorter cycle.
"I can say that Alessandro is certainly a person with an immense charge - confirms the director of the center, Pasquale Longobardi - he passed it on to me. He came here with a great desire to work. It was a busy month. for us but above all for him, in the end he understandably wanted to go home ".
According to reports, Zanardi underwent physiotherapy in a hyperbaric chamber. "This is a more efficient medical procedure than normal physiotherapy - explains Longobardi - the patient is stimulated with a mixture of oxygen and helium while performing the exercises".
(Unioneonline / vl)
