Rishabh Pant’s first question to his surgeon after accident: Am I ever going to be able to play again?
On December 30, 2022, Pant lost control of his car hit a separatist and caused severe injuries.
“Rishabh Pant was extremely lucky to be alive – he was extremely lucky – he was extremely lucky.” He said.
Pardiwala, reminding the body of the body of the telegram, “Also, there was a injury in the right ankle. There was also an injury on the right ankle, there was too much injury everywhere, so there was too much skin loss.
“Then he gets out of the car – he was engraved in the back of the broken glass skin and meat.”
Warrior in the pants entered a fighting back, which has become one of the most heartwarming stories in sports to make a 635 -day recovery, rehabilitation, multiple surgeries and comprehensive physiotherapy, a victorious return to the professional jack. In the opening test against England in Headingley, playing brave strokes that lead to centuries in a row.
“When your knee comes out and all bonds are broken, the probability of injury of the nerve or main blood vessel is high. If the blood vessel is injured, you have about four to six hours to typically restore the blood source.
“Otherwise, there is a risk of losing your limb. Although it had a severe high -speed knee protrusion, it was very lucky that the blood vessel was not injured.” He said.
Pardiwala remembered that his day pants were brought to his hospital in Mumbai, the first question, “Can I play again?”
Still, his mother was more practical, asking the surgeon: “Will he walk again?”
Pardiwala said that the injuries were so bad and that the pant needed completely reconstruction of the knee.
“We had a long discussion about these were serious injuries – we would have to rebuild all the knees. When we rebuild all the knees, then we should work in the process of not getting healing, letting to heal, then reclaiming the range, power and stability.”
On January 6, 2023, the Orthopedic Surgeon performed a four -hour surgery on the right knee of the Pant, rebuilt three bonds and repaired the tendon and meniscus.
Pardiwala remembered that a few weeks after the surgery could not even brush the teeth of the young cricket.
“He lost too much skin and so he couldn’t really move his hands. They were completely swollen. He couldn’t move any of his hands at the beginning.”
He slowly began to drink water without getting help, and then he managed to walk without crutches after four months. However, the surgeon was suspicious of the pants to play professionally cricket again.
“Typically, when we restructure these patients, they will be happy to return to normal life. They will be happy if they can walk and do a minimum amount of entertainment.”
“I said: ‘We can surely be sure that you are walking again. I will do my best to make sure we can take it back to play again.’ At the beginning, we didn’t want to give him too much, but we wanted to give him hope: ‘We will take this into steps.’ The first step, of course, must have surgery.
“When we argue right after the surgery, as I told him, the fact that you are alive, the survival of your limbs – return to these two miracles.
However, the pant was determined to return to the field and began to adjust the timeline for himself.
“Then the question was: ‘Okay, if we assume that we were able to reach there, how much will it be?’ I said: ‘He’s probably looking at 18 months to return to the competitive jack.’ ‘
He moved to the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore and stayed there for most of 2023.
“All his purpose was ‘Return me as quickly as possible’. And not too little, not too much, not too much, we were just trying to make sure we did optimum. It was much faster than we expected to heal.” Nothing is too much. “He pushed more than normal people.”
