It’s cold, it’s dark, and yet you can see them everywhere again: on the running paths along the rivers, in the gyms, in new functional jackets and old running shoes, with high ambitions and good intentions. The New Year’s athletes. Those who started January with the thought: Everything will be different now. Now the body is being reclaimed. You are trying to re-enter or re-enter. The problem is: your body doesn’t always cooperate the way you want it to.
“We have to do a lot with it in everyday life,” says Christopher Spering, who works as an orthopedist and trauma surgeon at the Göttingen University Hospital. This refers to people who start training again after months or years – too fast, too ambitious, too convinced that their body is the same as before – and then end up with a torn tendon at Spering.
