Wenger: Why placenta treatment was allowed
When Robin van Persie announced that he would be consulting an alternative medical consultant in Serbia to treat his ankle injury, many wondered whether a horse's placenta could provide a miracle cure.
The Dutch international has been ruled out of action for about 2 months, but is hoping that the placenta treatment will help speed that recovery process.
Arsenal gave permission to the striker to try out this alternative medical treatment, but manager Arsène Wenger admits that he is not a fan, stating that modern medicine is the best.
The Frenchman said: "I am not a fan, but also I am not a doctor.
"I have seen a few bizarre treatments. I could tell you a few stories about the treatments; I have enough to write a book on them.
"But I respect the individual freedom of everybody to be treated how they want to be treated.
"Since I have been in sport, when I have any guy who is injured, their first reflex is to go to their own country to be treated.
"Robin is exactly the same - most of the time he is treated first in Holland, because that is where he feels the most comfortable.
"They had told me he could be out for the rest of the season. But it did not need surgery; the positive news we had is that he will be out for four to six weeks. We count six because we are a bit pessimistic.
"When you have, for example, a muscle problem, it's 21 days [out]. "I've never seen anybody shorter.
"I have seen so many people sent there and in five days they can play. But they can only play with injections and then they have a recurrence of a muscle injury always.
"You cannot shorten it [the recovery period]. The intensity of the treatment can help and sometimes you can speed it up a little but there are some problems. A damaged ankle ligament takes four weeks.
"It's not injected. I leave that responsibility to my medical people. I ask is there any danger to do it, they say no, I say OK let's let him go and that's it.
"I heard of it [this form of treatment] for the first time when van Persie called me and explained the situation to me and wanted to go.
"I didn't give it too much importance. It's sometimes physiologically for the player to feel that it can help. We have all been in a situation we cannot get rid of: somebody gives you advice - 'go here, go there' – and at the end of the day if the traditional treatment cannot help you, go somewhere else.
"When you travel a lot you see Asian treatment, African treatment, European treatment. It's all different."
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