Tennis: Nadal has started a new treatment on his left foot

Europe 1 with AFP 1:57 p.m., June 8, 2022

Two days after his 14th title at Roland-Garros, Rafael Nadal began a new treatment on Tuesday for his concerns with pain in his left foot, the player's spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Nadal was subjected to "pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) treatment" in a Barcelona clinic, which numbs "the nerves in the area of ​​the injury from which he suffers," his spokesman said on Wednesday.

Nadal has suffered for years from Müller-Weiss syndrome, a degenerative and incurable disease which is characterized by the deformation of one of the bones of the foot.

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The Spanish champion revealed that he had to play the Roland-Garros final with an anesthetized foot, but that he is not ready to repeat the experience.

"I will be there if my body allows me. Wimbledon is a priority, the Grand Slam tournaments are a priority. Playing them under anti-inflammatory, yes. With anesthetic injections, no," Nadal said when asked. asked if he was going to participate this year in the London tournament, which he had not played in 2021 for, he said at the time, "to let his body recover".

Towards a resumption of training after treatment?

The world N.4 is at his home in Mallorca.

He will stay there "three or four days with normal physical activity, to talk" and "if the evolution of the treatment is positive, he will resume training on the courts," said his spokesperson.

It is not excluded that Nadal must "carry out a second treatment depending on his evolution next week", concluded the spokesperson.

The day after his coronation, Rafael Nadal confided exclusively to Europe 1 that his priority was to "continue tennis".