After nine days with German doctor Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, Karsten Warholm is now followed by the Olympic Summit to reach the World Cup in July. On Tuesday, he ran at 18 kilometers per hour on a treadmill.
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Last year, he battled against time to break the world record. Now Karsten Warholm is fighting against time to reach the World Cup.
– We’re really optimistic. Time is short, but this must be possible, said Håvard Moksnes, who led the work of the Olympic summit in close collaboration with coaches Leif Olav Alnes and Warholm himself.
Moksnes added that “now we hurry as fast as we dare”.
– During this week he should be able to run, but not at maximum speed, he said and said that Warholm on Tuesday ran at 18 km / h on a treadmill.
– Plan A is to participate in the World Cup. We are realistic optimists, following Olympiatoppen doctor Thomas Torgalsen.
17 days ago, Warholm suffered an injury to the back of his right thigh in the first stern pass of the season. Within 24 days, the initial shot will be fired for the test warm-up on the 400-meter goal during the World Championships in the United States.
– All prerequisites for it to work, Warholm told VG on Monday.
– It’s moving forward as fast as we can hope. It was starting to get so good that he knew nothing about the injury. At the same time, we held the brakes pretty hard, Moksnes explained.
He is a specialist in sports physiotherapy at the Olympic Summit and Sports Health Center. Håvard Moksnes has previously led the work to bring alpinists Aksel Lund Svindal, Lucas Braathen and Atle Lie McGrath and handball star Nora Mørk back after a serious knee problem.
Most of Warholm’s injury time so far has been spent in Munich. Thomas Torgalsen stated that staying with German doctor Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt was not initiated by the Olympic Summit. Warholm received a clear signal after the case was “discussed”.
– Always the athlete sitting in the driver’s seat, but we want information back. That’s a deal, said Torgalsen, who is now awaiting an epic crisis from Germany.
Torgalsen stated that Warholm in Norway will immediately undergo training and rehabilitation. Nine days with the nearly 80-year-old German has given him another start in the battle to be World Cup ready.
– In Germany, he has received medical and physical treatment. We know that Müller-Wohlfahrt deals with stiffness in the back and looking at the entire area of the back of the body in context, says Thomas Torgalsen.
Müller-Wohlfahrt is perhaps the most famous sports doctor in the world. He has a total of 37 years of practice as a doctor for Bayern Munich and 23 years as a doctor of the German national team in football. Usain Bolt – with the same sponsor as Warholm – was cared for by Müller-Wohlfahrt before the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. The all-time sprint king has dedicated one of his Olympic gold medals to the German.
Thomas Torgalsen has been in regular contact with Warholm by phone, but would not go into detail about the treatment he received in Munich.
Sunnmøringen underwent an ultrasound and MRI two days before he left. But there is little indication that Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt studied documentation from Norway before he started.
Medical veterans are largely based on “fingerpitzgefühl”.
– An athlete with a muscle injury is lying on the sofa, and I examine and feel the injury with my fingertips. When I have to make a diagnosis, I completely trust my sense of touch, says Müller-Wohlfahrt Picture in April.
– We think there may be a small effect from the treatment. It’s not as big as we think it is, says Håvard Moksnes. He stated that Warholm, at the same time as medical treatment, followed a separate training program in Germany.
– This damage must be healed. Even if the symptoms go away before everything heals. The biggest challenge is being tempted to try more than you can handle, Moksnes believes.
Now Warholm and team plan from day to day, week to week.
– We depend a lot on seeing the reaction to what we do. It’s hard to predict what Warholm will do next Monday, said Håvard Moksnes.
– When will he be able to jump over the fence again?
– We haven’t talked much about it. It’s more about him having to hold the pace.
Tuesday’s 18 km/h was certainly a far cry from Warholm’s top speed. Now the speed should be increased every day or two.
– He’ll probably be able to get to almost 100 percent. So the last part is the question. Full speed, obstacles and turns, depicts Thomas Torgalsen. Doctors warn that the danger of reopening the injury is always imminent with this type of injury.
