Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke and is expected to make a full recovery, his staff announced.

Murphy, 53, experienced “numbness in his arm” on Saturday afternoon and was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he had had a stroke, a statement reads.

“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke,” Allison Herwitt, Murphy’s chief of staff, said in a statement.

“He was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment. The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery,” she added.