The doctor explained under what conditions an MMA fighter who fell from the 10th floor would return to the sport

Sports doctor Valentin Belyaevsky said in an interview with that with the most favorable outcome, the recovery of MMA fighter Magomed Zainalov could take a year.

Earlier, Zainalov, a 24-year-old fighter, fell from the window of an apartment on the 10th floor of Rostov-on-Don, but remained alive and conscious when doctors arrived. According to preliminary information, Zainalov’s pelvic bones are broken.

— We know approximately the recovery time for typical football injuries. What is a fracture of the pelvic bones during a fall from height?

– If he only has a fracture of the pelvic bones and nothing else, then it is not that much: one year and he will be able to return to sport under favorable circumstances. But, most likely, there will be a combined injury, there may be ruptures of internal organs, head trauma and spinal cord injury. Here from one year to infinity.

— What injuries to the internal organs make it impossible to return to sport? The ruptured spleen that we talk about so often?

— The spleen is often injured because it is filled with blood. The liver is injured due to its location. Here you need to examine the nature of the damage. If the spleen is ruptured and simply removed, it will not affect your sports career in any way. But removing a kidney is already a serious matter. Radic played in Rostov, whose kidney was removed after the collision. Immediately after the operation, he gave up his career. Liver damage? The whole liver will not be removed in any case, they make sutures and that’s it,” said Doctor Belyaevsky in an interview with .

Zainalov has five victories in 14 professional fights.

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