Alessandro Buongiorno knocked out, professor Castellacci is unbalanced on recovery time

Professor Castellacci sheds light on Buongiorno's injury

Napoli should have to do without Alessandro Buongiorno for a little more than a month: è this is the prediction of Professor Enrico Castellacci, who at the microphones of the program 'Radio Goal' on Kiss Kiss radio has è unbalanced himself on the recovery time of the defender, who was injured on Monday during the training session under the orders of Antonio Conte.

"Three weeks of recovery seems to me to be few – the former national team doctor ruled, rejecting more optimistic forecasts -, he è fractured two lumbar vertebrae and I think the recovery time is around 35 or 40 days. These are particular fractures in the world of soccer, the case histories are not so present".

"It è nothing dangerous,” Professor Castellacci went on to clarify, “but it è definitely very tedious. Rehabilitation è relative, you have to give Mother Nature time to be able to let the fractures heal. The physical therapy that is implemented is done to soothe the painful symptoms. It is often helped with an orthopedic brace to lessen the pain".

Napoli had announced Monday Buongiorno's injury with a statement released on its channels in which it specified that, following medical examinations to which the player immediately underwent, a fracture of the transverse processes of two lumbar vertebrae had been found, and that Buongiorno himself had immediately begun rehabilitation.