Sofia Goggia: ‘I will get up again’. Operation perfectly successful

Sofia Goggia: "I will get upò again". Operation perfectly successful

Sofia Goggia è underwent surgery in Milan after a bad fall suffered in training: the Italian champion è fractured the tibia and tibial malleolus of her right leg. The Bergamo-born skier underwent surgery in the afternoon in Milan, and will now have to stay put for 40 days before starting rehabilitation again. The season è ended early.

Goggia è was successfully operated on at La Madonnina Clinic by Dr. Andrea Panzeri, president of the FISI Medical Commission, in collaboration with Dr. Riccardo Accetta, head of the UO of Traumatology of the IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio, for the reduction of a multifragmentary decomposed joint fracture of the right tibial pylon. 

The’operation è was perfectly successful, the’athlete è was applied a plate with seven screws: now he will observeà a period of rest and unloading of about 40 days, and then begin the mostù active part of physiotherapy, which will haveà however, begin from the next few days, reports Fisi.

These are his first words: "Another injury that interrupts my run-up to a new Downhill World Cup, but this time too I will knowò get back up".