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 middle Tuesday, a month right after getting seriously hurt in a handbike crash.

The Siena medical center that had been dealing with Zanardi considering that the June 19 crash introduced that the athlete had been introduced but, in accordance with Zanatrdi’s loved ones, did not say where he was taken.

Zanardi underwent a few fragile surgical procedures at the Siena medical center to stabilize him and reconstruct his severely damaged experience, right after he crashed into an oncoming truck around the Tuscan city of Pienza through a relay function.

“His medical affliction and vital indicators have shown he’s on the street towards security, which allowed for the reduction and suspension of the sedative, and for that reason the risk to be transferred to a facility where he can acquire the needed neuro-rehabilitation,” claimed Valtere Giovannini, director of the Santa Maria alle Scotte Healthcare facility.

He “has shown remarkable energy, which is a precious present that he’ll will need on the new problem beginning these days,” Giovannini included.

Zanardi, 53, who missing both of his legs in an auto racing crash nearly twenty several years back, had been on a ventilator in a medically induced coma considering that the handbike crash.

The medical center would not say if Zanardi was awake or not.

Zanardi experienced really serious facial and cranial trauma, and medical practitioners have warned of probable brain injury.

Zanardi won 4 gold medals and two silvers at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics. He also competed in the New York Metropolis Marathon and established an Ironman report in his course.

Final month, Pope Francis penned a handwritten letter of encouragement assuring Zanardi and his loved ones of his prayers. The pope praised Zanardi as an illustration of energy amid adversity.

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