By Chris Wright
“Just a bit on indigestion boss, honest”
Mexican side Pachuca broke new ground several months ago by becoming the first football team to conduct in-house half-time surgery on one of their players, Dario Cvitanich.
Cvitanich’s knee surgery was broadcast live to the media, with the club’s award-winning medical team receiving plaudits for their innovative treatment of the striker’s injury, sustained in the first half of the match.
As of Sunday evening, Pachuca are now also the first team to have carried out an x-ray scan on an injured player during a game.
After taking a heavy blow to the ribs after just 20 minutes, Club America midfielder Osvaldo Martinez was carted to the side of the pitch where he received a cursory scan from Pachuca’s medical staff to assess the extent of his injuries…
What a time to be alive.
Martinez was subsequently substituted in precaution and taken to hospital for a full follow-up MRI scan, but the Paraguayan attacker was eventually found to have suffered nothing more serious than a bruise.
According to those who know much more about it than us, Pachuca have long been a team considered to be at the forefront of medical progress in football.
In fact, their Medical Centre of Excellence is officially approved by FIFA – the highest accolade known to mankind.
(Via ESPN FC Mexico)