It must be hard to get seriously injured, specially for competing athletes. I remember what Juri Chechi (an Italian gymnast, still ring Olympic champion) once said, after a biceps brachii tendon rupture: ''the athlete wasn't as strong as he once had been, but the man was a lot stronger''. He won the bronze medal at Athene 2004 when he was 34 old. I wish you, and all injured athletes, the best