Ski Swede fears for her career

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The Swedish Lisa Hörnblad (27) is one of the talented skiers who have not yet reached the World Cup. In the second half of the 2017/18 season, the speed specialist attracted attention in the European Cup with six podium finishes in two months.

Then they threw back several knee injuries. Between August 2019 and December 2022, she had to go under the knife seven times. It was especially dramatic in December last year. After she suffered a total knee loss in early 2022, minor cleaning surgery was performed. With fatal consequences.

Hörnblad was at the airport when, out of the blue, she developed severe pain in her knee. She became nauseous, developed a high fever and could no longer move her leg. The diagnosis: blood poisoning and therefore life-threatening.

Worst experience

Hörnblad told Swedish broadcaster SVT at the time: “I thought the doctors would have to amputate my leg. It felt like it was going to explode.” Fortunately, this was prevented by emergency surgery. “The pain before the surgery was the worst experience I’ve ever had in my life.”

Now that experience could cost her her career. “The sepsis I had has degraded the cartilage so much and the pain is worse than ever,” she writes on Instagram. While she can work out in the gym, it won’t work on the ski slopes. “I’m very sad about the whole thing and it feels like this hell will never end,” says Hörnblad.

Autohemotherapy should help

Although she is belligerent, she has already thought about resigning. The thought of it is “super scary and sad that it could be,” she tells SVT. Your possibly last hope is called PRP therapy.

Blood is drawn, which is enriched with platelets and then injected into the knee. That’s why she takes a three and a half month break. She accepts because she wants to start racing again next winter. “I really want to go back,” says Hörnblad. “But it’s sad that my body wants the opposite.”

One can only hope that this drama gets a happy ending. (bir)

Source : Blick