England and Sale Sharks flanker Tom Curry is having stem-cell remedy on his hip in a bid to play on the 2027 Rugby World Cup.
Curry had career-saving surgical procedure on a continual hip downside in February earlier than he returned to face New Zealand in the summertime.
Now, with a view to managing his restoration and forestall additional points, the 26-year-old may have stem-cell remedy, which means he’ll miss Sale’s Champions Cup match in opposition to Racing 92.
“He is having a stem cell process, which is not a treatment, it is like a drugs actually,” Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson advised BBC Sport.
“It is to assist the bone progress of his earlier operation; injecting stem cells into his hip. It is a week fully doing nothing whereas the bone grows, after which he’s again to operating.”
Sanderson stated the membership have labored with England coach Steve Borthwick to map out when Curry may have the therapies and what number of video games he’ll play.
“We put just a little little bit of a plan collectively, of which the stem-cell process is part of it, then checked out the remainder of the season,” Sanderson stated.
“Steve Borthwick appeared [at the plan] and is 100% behind it. We wish to get him to the World Cup with out having one other operation. He’ll characteristic in round 23 video games, and 16 of these shall be for us.
“And the remainder internationals. So we now have figured all that out so we do not push him to that 30-game max.
“The consideration is he has a continual harm which he’s managing very well, however the extra he performs the much less shelf-life he has.
“We typically go by the precept it should be three video games on one off, or two on one off. I do not suppose it is smart [to push his game number to 30].”
Whereas his hip has been the first problem for Curry, there was concern for him within the November internationals after he was knocked out in opposition to Australia, solely to play two weeks later to play in opposition to Japan.
Requested if he was glad that Curry took half in that match, Sanderson stated: “Personally for me, no, as a result of I care about him.
“However solely in the identical means his brother was [concerned about him], and his mother and father. If there was an opportunity, you would not even take it, with somebody’s mind.
“However I’ve full religion within the medical doctors and the specialists who stated he was good to go. At that time he’s England’s participant.”
England’s subsequent match shall be their Six Nations opener in opposition to Eire in Dublin on Feb.1