The peephole surgery that shoulder injury injured Linn Svahn recently performed is described as successful.
National team doctor Per "Pliggen" Andersson says that the operation both gave an answer to the question of what made the injury impossible to heal, and that they managed to fix the problem.
Now she has begun a long period of rehab training with an initial reconciliation in three weeks.
Extensive damage
- The damage was more extensive than we thought and in three weeks we will reconcile and make a new plan, says Per "Pliggen" Andersson, who does not want to speculate in close Linn Svahn can make a comeback in the ski tracks.
- What is relevant is to create conditions so that her shoulder can heal in the best way.
If you start focusing on competitions at this stage, it is easy to make wrong decisions.
Linn Svahn's coach Ola Rawald also has this attitude of just being in the present.
But he also signals that we should not count on Linn Svahn at the Beijing Olympics in February next year.
Olympics far away
- It is very far away to think she will be able to come back and if she does, it is completely fanatical, but with the greatest certainty it will be very difficult for her to get to the Olympics.
But we will not paint the hell on the wall until it is completely clear.
Ola Rawald says that he is now disconnected from all training with Linn Svahn as long as she follows the rehab plan that her medical team has drawn up.
- I will come back when she can start training normally again.
When she can start training again, missing high-altitude training is not the big problem.
She must return to sensible training and there is a short time left until the Olympics, says Ola Rawald.
Svahn injured his shoulder shortly before the World Cup in Oberstdorf in February.
Before that, she was the world's best sprinter with six World Cup victories.