Lonely Christmas for Alexander Prast

During his serious fall in the World Cup Super-G in Val d'Isere, Prast suffered total damage to his right knee: the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments were torn, as were the inner and outer ligaments, as well as a damaged meniscus.

“I immediately felt that it must be very bad. The pain was almost unbearable. Thankfully, before this injury I had never had anything other than a damaged thumb, but I knew there was no way my knee could be better.”

Alexander Prast being transported after his fall in Val d'Isere. © Pentaphoto / Alessandro Trovati

Emergency operation at the Innsbruck University Hospital After initial treatment in a French hospital, Prast was transferred to Innsbruck, where he was operated on by Christian Fink at the Hochrum Clinic and all torn ligaments were repaired. But then problems arose and the speed specialist even had to be transferred to the intensive care unit at the Innsbruck University Hospital due to compartment syndrome in his thigh.

For a better explanation: According to Wikipedia, compartment syndrome is defined as the condition in which, when the skin and soft tissue envelope is closed, increased tissue pressure leads to a reduction in tissue blood flow, resulting in neuromuscular disorders or tissue and organ damage. The result is damage to blood vessels, muscles and nerves. “It will be the most difficult challenge of my career so far. But I will get out of this valley.” Alexander Prast That has now been fixed and Alexander Prast is affected accordingly. “I have received so many well wishes and wishes of encouragement, but I have not been able to respond to them yet. In this way I would like to say thank you to everyone and I will have enough time to reply to everyone in the future.”

Alexander Prast knows that this future will not be easy. “It will be the most difficult challenge of my career. I must and will get out of this valley. The main goal is to get completely healthy again. No matter how long it takes me.” Especially since it is already clear that another operation will be necessary because of the injury to my thigh.

Prast also followed the fate of Nicole Schmidhofer. The Austrian also suffered the same serious knee injury in Val d'Isere. She talks about returning to skiing in the next 8 to 10 months. Prast isn't talking about it yet. “I want to get healthy first and take it step by step in that direction. Even physiotherapy is still a long way away at the moment.” No visit to the clinic And because today is Christmas Eve and stricter Corona measures apply in Austria, his parents cannot visit him at the Innsbruck University Clinic. Very sad for Prast, but not the end of the world. “I’ll still get through this. Surely time passes slowly and the nights are long. But the day will come again when the sun will shine.”

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Lonely Christmas for Alexander Prast

It will be a lonely Christmas for Alexander Prast. The man from Bolzano, who fell badly in the Super-G in Val d'Isere, has to stay in the Innsbruck University Hospital not only today, Christmas Eve, but beyond the coming weekend. Possibly until the New Year.

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