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Eduardo's surgeon optimistic over Ramsey

Aaron Ramsey will make a full recovery from the horrific broken leg he suffered at Stoke on Saturday, according to the surgeon who successfully helped his Arsenal team-mate Eduardo recover from a similar injury. The 19-year-old midfielder sustained fractures to the tibia and fibula in his right leg following a tackle from Ryan Shawcross and underwent successful surgery on Saturday evening.

Khalid Baloch, who has only seen pictures of Ramsey's injury, believes the Wales international faces a similar one year rehabilitation.

"I expect it is deja vu for Arsenal's staff and will bring back memories for them. If you look at the pictures it is similar to where Eduardo was holding his leg," Baloch told the Daily Mirror.

"The Arsenal physios and doctors have seen this before though and it will be fresh in their minds.

"I expect eventually Ramsey will have the same type of intensive rehab and play again. Arsenal's physios did a great job with Eduardo.

He added: "There were some similarities with Eduardo and a leg break is usually six to nine months out.

"The mechanism of the injury is obviously similar with two players getting involved in a tackle and one player's foot hits the other's leg.

"Whenever any break has a significant bend in it, as his did, there is a possibility for a compound fracture but it is hard to tell if that happened to Ramsey as well."

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