Johanna Matintalo is now focused on rehabilitating her left foot calf.
Johanna Matintalo The season has accommodated setbacks. In November, he was plagued by the right foot’s calf injury, which escalated with the Tour de Sk for a tendon. Matintalo was able to rehabilitate his legs so well that he was able to participate in the Trondheim World Cup, but now his left calf has been a partial rupture.
Matintalo said on his Instagram account that his season is over. He will not compete this weekend at the Lahti World Cup, nor later in the spring in other domestic competitions.
Matintalo wrote that big risks were taken in the rehabilitation of the calf calf. Rehabilitation had to make a lot of compromises due to scheduling pressure.
– Last Saturday, Holmenkollen’s left calf appeared in pain – it was a healthy leg that had previously stayed healthy. When returned to Finland, the foot was studied and this calf also revealed a partial rupture, Matintalo wrote.
– The injury to the left foot is much less severe than the previously found in the right foot. However, the situation is, of course, difficult and requires time and particularly careful rehabilitation – without scheduling pressure.
Matintalo has experienced the brutality of top-level sports this season.
-The last 4 months may have been the hardest of my sports career so far. Fortunately, all the fine performance of people close to us this winter has also given me strength, Matintalo wrote, referring to, among other things, his spouse Lauri Vuorinen For World Championships.