Rugby-Wallabies centre Foketi to make 'full recovery' from neck injury: Waratahs

FILE PHOTO: Rugby Union - Rugby World Cup 2023 - Pool C - Australia v Fiji - Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Etienne, France - September 17, 2023 Australia's Lalakai Foketi looks dejected after the match REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia centre Lalakai Foketi is expected to make a full recovery from a neck injury that had raised fears for his rugby career and shook his New South Wales Waratahs teammates.

Foketi received lengthy medical treatment at the Waratahs' training ground on Thursday before being taken to a hospital by ambulance for scans that cleared him of serious spinal damage.