Stephanie Inglis is still hopeful of making a competitive return to judo ©Getty Images

Judoka Stephanie Inglis is hoping to make a return to the sport following a motorcycle crash last year – although she knows she has a long way to be fully recovered.

The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games silver medallist was involved in the accident last May in Vietnam when her skirt got caught in the wheel of the vehicle as she made her way to a school in Ha Long and suffered a broken neck in two places, pneumonia, septicaemia and deep vein thrombosis in her left arm along with brain damage.

She was put into a medically-induced coma and initially only given a one per cent chance to live, but Inglis has made a steady recovery.

Inglis has targeted appearing at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, the host city of which is to be decided after Durban was stripped of staging the event.

In an interview with the Dunfermline Press, Inglis said she has had differing opinions from doctors, but is still confident of returning to judo.

Stephanie Inglis won women's 57kg silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow ©Getty Images
Stephanie Inglis won women's 57kg silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow ©Getty Images

“I have had talks with my surgeon and he is really not keen for me to return to the sport,” the 28-year-old said.

“Just because it is full contact sport, (there’s) a risk of another head injury and I wouldn’t come through that.

“However, I spoke to another surgeon and he said you brain is like any other muscle, if you break your leg, for example, when it’s fixed it’s fixed.

“I think I’m going to give myself a couple of years to fully recover and let everything settle down and then go back and maybe get more tests done and scans and weigh up the risk and the possibilities of returning then.”

In January, Inglis had a metal plate was fitted to her skull to help stop further brain damage.

Fellow judoka Khalid Gehlan set up a GoFundMe page to pay for her medical treatment with around £350,000 ($451,000/€401,000) being raised so far.