Today, Sunday, Real Madrid announced that Belgian goalkeeper Thibault Courtois is suffering from sciatica, which will keep him away from the royal team and green stadiums for about 4 matches.
Real Madrid released a statement on their official website saying: “Following tests carried out by the team’s medical staff, Courtois was diagnosed with sciatica.”
According to the medical website mayoclinic, “sciatica” refers to pain that radiates along the sciatic nerve, which branches from the lower back to the hips, buttocks, and down each leg and usually only affects one side of a person’s body.
Sciatica usually develops when a herniated disc, a bone spur in the spine, or a narrowing of space in the spine (spinal stenosis) compresses part of a nerve.
This causes inflammation, pain, and often tingling in the affected leg.
Although the pain associated with sciatica can be severe, most cases are treated without surgery for a few weeks.
People with severe “sciatica” associated with significant leg weakness or changes in the bowel or bladder may be candidates for surgery, but this is in certain cases, not in all cases, as mentioned earlier.
For football players, it is important that if one of them suffers from “sciatica”, then basically complete rest is required so that he can quickly and without surgical intervention recover from it.
Thibault Courtois is expected to miss 4 matches against Osasuna and Getafe in the Spanish championship, as well as two Ukrainian matches in the Champions League, while he can catch up in the El Clasico match against Barcelona on October 16 in the Spanish championship . , according to Radio Cadena. “Cuban” Spanish.
Source: agencies