4:30pm Thursday 11th March 2010
By Lewis Cowen
FULL-BACK Jorge Wadman is already back on his feet after suffering a horrific leg break in a match on Saturday.
The 19-year-old, of West Lavington, who is studying sport therapy at Hartpury Academy of Sport in Gloucestershire, broke his leg in two places during Devizes’ Southern Counties South derby at Bradford on Avon.
His right leg was caught awkwardly in a tackle, leaving him with a fractured tibia and fibula.
He was treated for around 45 minutes at the scene – the match being moved to an adjacent pitch – before being taken to the Royal United Hospital in Bath.
Wadman said: “My dad heard the crack standing 50 metres away.”
“I was operated on on Sunday at about 1.30pm. Everyone at the hospital was absolutely brilliant.”
Surgeons inserted a rod in his tibia and he has eight staples down his knee, three in the side of his leg and two in his ankle.
Wadman, whose father is Mark, director of Fussell Wadman car dealership and chairman of West Lavington parish council, was allowed home on Monday and said: “They said I should start putting weight on it in a couple of days and, in fact, they had me walking 20 to 30 metres.
“I am meant to be going to Thailand in three weeks so I hope I am well enough to go.
“I was also meant to be playing for the county on Sunday and we have play-offs at uni. I will just have to be a spectator I suppose.”
Devizes head coach Tim Unwin said: “It was a very nasty injury and we hope Jorge makes as quick a recovery as possible.
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