CSKA Forward Anton Slepychev in an interview with , he said that he only managed to finish last season thanks to the recommendations of German doctors.
In 50 matches in the 2022/23 regular season, Slepyshev scored 27 points (10+17), adding another 16 (8+8) in the playoffs. CSKA reached the final of the Gagarin Cup, where they defeated Ak Bars in seven matches.
— You played all 27 playoff games on painkillers. Now can you tell me what the injury was?
— Not 27 matches, but more. I had two inguinal hernias, they could not be diagnosed in Moscow. I had to find out the reason myself via Germany. Thanks to doctors’ recommendations, we managed to finish the season. I was lucky: at any moment, this hernia could close and I would go to the operating room in a squatting position.
I was released in mid-January – and until April 30, every match, every training took place with injections. Maybe there was no more pain. But morally I needed assurance, that if the hernia comes out, I won’t feel it, I will finish the match, and then we will find a solution.
Thanks to the German specialists, Seryoga Andronov put me in touch with them – he too had problems. Mikhail Naumenkov and Maxim Shalunov operated there. I am still in contact with German doctors to discuss certain issues.
At the very beginning of May, I had surgery on both sides. As the season progressed, accelerated rehabilitation would be required in three to four weeks. But on vacation, the doctors said: “Don’t do anything for a month.” And in the second, do not start pulling the bar beyond 100 kg. I rested for two months and when I started training again there were no more problems.
– It’s the tip of the iceberg when the team wins the cup. But in the locker room, everyone was beaten up and beaten up.
— Of course, and this applies to any sport. It happens that the spectator expects a spectacle from a good athlete, but he is disappointed. But we don’t know what health problems he has, what personal difficulties he has. “Everything stays inside,” Slepyshev told .
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