Corbie… A little town in a French department called Somme (Region Picardie). Its surface is approximately 16 km2 and it has around 6300 citizend (1999)
It is also the town where the regional Rehabilitation centre settled a few years ago. This will be my second home for the coming 10 weeks (and it has been the last two weeks). Three times a week from 9am til 5pm, I will be working hard to recover from my knee injury)
The programm is tough. My day starts with 15 min on the bike, followed by 30 min of stretching. Then I have to train the propriosepsis of my knee (stability exercises).
I move on to the cybex machine for a strength session (concentric), followed by 30min of bike. The last hour of the morning session is filled with balneo therapy. In the pool I started doing jumping (the impact is a lot lower) and running work.
At noon I have my well-deserved lunch break. The meals are provided by the hospital and are quite good.
My afternoon session starts with 30 min of stretching, a cybex strengthing session (eccentric) en icing the tendon. Most of the times there is some time to play some table tennis. The last hour will be filled with a running session in a jetstream and waterpolo.
By the end of the day I’m pretty exhausted. The days that I am not in Corbie I do exercises that the rehab team gave me (they belong to the protocol). The bad side of this all is that I can’t train the first 4 or 5 weeks of the protocol. Research pointed out that the knee wil be overtrained if the patient trains fully besides the treatment. So all i’m doing at the track now is weights training for my upper body and medicinball (in a sitting position). After 6 weeks, if everything goes well, they will stop the eccentric sessions. That means I will only have to come half a day. Hopefully I can pick up training then, too.
