Michael Schumacher

Michael Schumacher

There seems to be plenty of optimism in the Michael Schumacher camp, as a doctor who has treated him thinks he could me a recovery in three years.

In December 2013, Schumacher sufffered from very serious head injuries following a ski-accident whilst in France with his family.

Jean-Francois Payen, who is a doctor at the Grenoble hospital - treated the Formula 1 star for six months after the accident, and is positive about his recovery.

Speaking to RTL radio and the Parisien newspaper, Payen said: "Life after a head injury is punctuated by stages.

"I've seen some progress but I'd say that it's going to take time. It's like for other patients, it's a timescale of one to three years so we must be patient."

Schumacher was treated at the Grenoble hospital immediatley after the accident, where he was place in a medically induced coma to help reduce the swelling to the brain.

He was kept in that coma for six month by doctors, before being moved to a rehabilitation clinic in Lausanne.

Earlier this summer, Schumacher was moved out of the clinic at Lausanne and was allowed to return home, where he is being cared for by a team of medical experts.

Schumacher's wife Corinna has been at the driver's side for the last year as she has tried to support her husband as well as protect him from all of the press interest.

This is the second piece of positive news that we have recieved about Schumacher recently, after Jean-Louis Moncet made comments on the former world champions condition.

After speaking to Schumacher's teenage son, Moncet told Europe 1 radio station: "I saw his son and he told me that Schumi is waking up very slowly; very slowly."

While Schumacher still has a very long and difficult road ahead of him, it looks like there may be a light at the end of the tunnel and we will see him make some sort of recovery.


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