Senate Republican chief Mitch McConnell stated Saturday he has been launched from the rehabilitation facility the place he had bodily remedy for a concussion attributable to a fall earlier this month.

The 81-year-old Kentucky Republican stated in a press release launched by his workplace that he’ll work at home for the following few days. The Senate is scheduled to be on break for the weeks of April 3 and April 10.

McConnell was at dinner on March 8 after a lodge reception for a marketing campaign committee aligned with him when he tripped and fell. Along with the concussion, he additionally had a rib fracture.

He was launched from the hospital on March 13 and, upon the recommendation of his physician, moved to an inpatient rehabilitation facility for bodily remedy and to proceed his restoration.

Concussions might be severe accidents and take time for restoration. Even a single incident of concussion can restrict an individual’s talents throughout that interval.

“I’ll comply with the recommendation of my bodily therapists and spend the following few days working for Kentuckians and the Republican Convention from dwelling,” McConnell stated within the assertion. “I am in frequent contact with my Senate colleagues and my workers. I sit up for returning in particular person to the Senate quickly.”

Virtually 4 years in the past he tripped and fell at his dwelling in Kentucky, inflicting a shoulder fracture that required surgical procedure. The Senate had simply began a summer season recess, and he labored from dwelling for some weeks as he recovered.

In his early childhood, he had polio and he has acknowledged some issue as an grownup in climbing stairs.

McConnell was first elected in 1984. In January, he turned the longest-serving Senate chief when the brand new Congress convened, breaking the earlier report of 16 years.