A doctor who treated Michael Schumacher for nearly six months after his brain injury in a skiing accident says the F1 champion has made «some progress».

But Jean-Francois Payen, a doctor at the French hospital in Grenoble where he was treated, warned that any recovery would take time.

The typical convalescence period was one to three years, he suggested.

Schumacher, 45, was skiing in the French Alps last December when he fell and hit his head on a rock.

The seven-time world champion from Germany was placed in a medically induced coma to help reduce swelling in his brain as he underwent treatment in Grenoble and then in Lausanne, Switzerland.

He has now been taken out of the coma and is being looked after at his home in Gland, Switzerland, where Prof Payen still visits him to track his progress.

El doctor que trata al 7 veces campeon mundial de F1, Michael Schumacher, dijo que hay progresos en su recuperación…

Pero el medico Jean-Francois Payen especialista del hospital de Grenlble donde fue operado Schumacher, aclaro que la recuperacion total toma tiempo y al comvalecencia tipica de este tipo de accidentes toma de uno a 3 años.