Worcester lock Michael Fatialofa walks unaided after serious neck injury

Worcester lock Michael Fatialofa has walked unaided less than 11 weeks after a serious neck injury left him in intensive care.

The 27-year-old has been in hospital since suffering the injury in a game against Saracens on 4th January.

Fatialofa's wife Tatiana wrote with a video of him walking on Instagram you are witnessing a miracle that even medical professionals can't explain.

She wrote they are so shook by his progress given his critical level of injury.

Fatialofa was diagnosed with a spinal contusion, which causes compression on the spine, and had surgery to relieve the pressure on his spinal cord.

The forward spent more than a fortnight in intensive care at St Mary's Hospital, London before being transferred to Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire.

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