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It is now good again with YB midfielder Sandro Lauper. He’s playing again. Has its place back. He is largely symptom-free. He is Swiss champion. Quadruple now. And like any regular YB player, he dreams of making the national team and abroad. So normality. Which is not normal: he is 26. Two years of it as a pro are missing. He ruptures his ACL twice and is out from July 2019 to January 2021. And he misses another six months. From April to October 2022. A time he describes today as “horror”, in which everything is pink. This is because it was an eternity of uncertainty. That’s the worst, says Lauper, if you’re not sure. No time horizon and no rehabilitation plan focused on a specific injury.
But how did it happen? Lauper explains. Detailed, as an athlete rarely does.
The decision of the star surgeon
It all starts in March 2020. After the second cruciate ligament tear Konolfinger suffered in a test match against Kriens. The surgeon, the Austrian top knee surgeon Christian Fink from Innsbruck (Leroy Sané, Giorgio Chiellini, FC Bayern, Aksel Lund Svindal, Felix Neureuther, Lucas Hernandez, Denis Zakaria, Niklas Süle, Nicolo Zaniolo, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde etc.), proposes to form the new anterior cruciate ligament in the right knee from one third of the patellar tendon in the healthy left knee. “We then jointly chose this approach,” says Lauper. “For a long time after that I had no knee problems. And if so, then within the normal voltage range.” This will remain so until the spring of 2022. Then the groin in the left leg will rise. “It required an operation where a gauze was inserted. A routine procedure,” says Lauper.
Two months earlier I had sudden pain in my left knee. So in what was actually healthy. The cause is quickly clear: a “hole”. Lauper explains: “A third of the patellar tendon is removed with part of the attachment, which is a small piece of bone. This way you can better fix the replacement cruciate ligament in the other knee. But the spot where the approach had been removed, a small hole, was now beginning to inflame. So I started weighing wrong. Thigh muscle strength decreased, which is basic for supporting an injured knee. »
The result: the load on the knees becomes more and more extreme because the balance is no longer present. The knee begins to become extremely inflamed. “The groin, on the other hand, did not cause any problems after the operation. But now it was about rebuilding the muscles. I rarely took summer vacations. But soon I had to say to myself: it still doesn’t work. So the knee was examined again, with all kinds of pictures. As a result, it was determined how massive the ignition was. And that there was actually no life left in this knee.”
The rescue: autologous blood therapy!
Now Lauper had a diagnosis that required only one thing: autologous blood therapy. “I was injected with blood and hyaluronic acid into this hole that caused all the problems. Eventually the one in the bar too. And that helped. Finally!”
Lauper has to start from scratch again. But the time of horror is over. From then on it steadily goes up. “I hardly had any pain. Except the usual after extreme loads.”
He has now lost his permanent place. Lost to Cheikh Niasse (23), young talented Senegalese who joined YB from Lille in February 2022. “He did really well,” says Lauper, who is now becoming a competitor again. Especially after he can finally do a full preparation again at the beginning of 2023. Lauper is allowed to play twice in the first seven games of 2023 from the start. The number one is and remains Niasse. Until he was removed from the squad for the game against Sion by sports director Steve von Bergen and coach Raphael Wicky because of his notorious punctuality. Lauper seizes the opportunity! YB wins 4-0. And he immediately followed in the 3-0 win against FC Basel. Now he is number one again. Since then, Niasse has played one more game from the start – and was replaced at half-time by Lauper in the 6-1 win over Servette.
Lauper has now made 120 appearances for YB in all competitions since moving from Thun to the capital in the summer of 2018. Not a huge number. Because there’s one in the way that Lauper hopes won’t grow – thanks to autologous blood. And it’s really impressive: Lauper missed 103 games injured!
Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
