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 | Tsitsipas` mom about his back injury: He lived and played with this problem for a long time6-12-2025 |
Tsitsipas` mother told how her son copes with a back injury. Stefanos Tsitsipas’ mother Yulia Salnikova spoke about her son’s back problems.
– What is happening with Stefanos now in terms of health?
– If we talk about the last year, which he completed early, he has problems with his back. He saw a doctor who specializes in his injury, and he advised him to go on vacation and not continue the season with a tournament in Athens - although this tournament was in his plans in the first place.
The problem was solved without surgery. Styopa was very pleased with this - by that time he was already so tired that he was even ready for surgery.
At the moment he has no active physical activity. He does certain gymnastics, which is aimed at maintaining a normal state. Only in early December, when preparations for the next season and serious workload begin, will we understand whether he has really solved the problem with the injury.
He doesn`t feel any discomfort now. This is already pleasing, because before this, even in ordinary life, he had discomfort due to his back.
– Is this the same injury that occurred in 2023? At the final and after it?
– Yes, the same. He lived and played with this problem for a long time.
– During the season, the problem could not be solved because there was an incorrect diagnosis? Or wrong treatment?
– He needed to see our specific specialist, and we tried to alleviate the discomfort through physiotherapy and oxygen enrichment. Only after treatment in Munich did a shift occur.
– What kind of doctor is there? Who advised him?
– No one recommended him. Among tennis players, for example, Djokovic. On the way there we met with [former football player] Lothar Matthäus - and he also said: Guys, you should go see him.
The doctor`s name is Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt. Surprisingly, she and Styopa recently met again quite by chance when they were vacationing in the same place in Namibia.
– Do you now understand why this problem arose?
– We suspect that the prerequisites are partly innate. The doctor explained to us that he has structural features.
We suspect that part of the problem is the incorrect movement on the serve. He leans a little to the left.
In the end, it turned out that the cartilage through which the nerve passes was constantly inflamed and put pressure on the nerve passage. The point of the treatment was to dry this cartilage so that the inflamed membrane would return to its proper state, ” Salnikova said in an interview with Sports.
Tsitsipas’s mother was offended by our text. And she herself spoke about all her son’s gaming (and not only) problems