The F1 racing driver emerged from his coma on 16 June, yet numerous top medical practitioners have said since that his prognosis might not be as significant as some may have thought.
“He will remain an invalid all his life and will always remain dependent on others' help,” said neurology specialist Riederer.
He added that Schumacher will have “permanent” damage and that it will be a ”success“ if he manages to sit up unaided within the next three months and operate an electric wheelchair within six months.
However, he said that his coma awakening was still “positive”.
"It is an incredibly positive message when someone wakes up after being in a coma for half a year,” he continued.
“For him it is positive, but also for his family, this is hugely important.”
Recently, Schumacher’s former doctor, Gary Hartstein, warned that the former F1 champion could be in a “minimally conscious state”.
His view reaffirms the words of medical experts, who said that only one in ten patients who spent so many months in a coma went on to recover all or most of their mental and physical capacities.
Schuamacher’s manager, Sabine Kehm, released a statement on 16 June, which said that “he is not in a coma anymore” and will “continue his long phase of rehabilitation”.
Michael Schumacher has a team of 15 medical experts treating him at a special clinic built in the grounds of his mansion home in Switzerland, with wage bills and medical equipment rental costing more than an estimated £100,000 a week.
The Lausanne rehabilitation clinic which Schumacher, 45, left two weeks ago to return home - 254 days after suffering catastrophic head injuries during a ski holiday - confirmed it has trained-up the experts now attempting to get the seven-times world champion to live a normal life.
A spokesman for the clinic confirmed: 'A large part of the team that cares for Michael now was trained by our specialists. We are following his treatment and are still a point of contact and entirely at his disposal.
Schumacher was placed in an artificial coma on December 29 last year after smashing his head onto rocks while skiing at the French Alpine resort of Meribel. He remained in the coma for 159 days and was moved to Lausanne from the University Hospital of Grenoble just weeks ago.
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