As a specialist in rheumatology and with a background in many years of work with the DBU and Team Denmark have Thøger Krogh seen several examples of elitesportsfolk, who continue their career at high level with the disease rheumatoid arthritis.

He will not, however, mention them by name, nor does he want to comment on Caroline She cases without personal knowledge of her diagnosis.

rheumatoid Arthritis manifests itself in very different ways from person to person, he explains.

in turn is elitesportsfolk on several fronts better equipped to tackle the illness than the ’ordinary patients’, points out, Thøger Krogh.

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Thøger Krogh have met several elitesportsfolk, who has continued his career with rheumatoid arthritis. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix

Generally require a good life with the disease, that it is velbehandlet that gigten are brought in the ro and is not active.

– This requires, first and foremost, the right composition of the medical treatment. You will find it, then you have a really good starting point to continue the life you live. But you must respect the fact that things are different.

– You must schedule a bit different, for it is a general trend that you get less energy and feel more tired. You should typically recover more, and you have to take into account in the planning of your season.

– You also need to find out how your body responds to training. Your restitutionsbehov is different, but it doesn’t have to be a big problem.

– We see in advance, how the elite athletes in the last third of their career starts to think more about how and how much the coach. The coach is wiser and can maybe even achieve even better results, because the body thus recuperates better.

He tells, that within the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis has been very great progress in recent years, new methods have proved very effective, and that many therefore live a completely normal life with the disease.

Gigteksperten Thøger Krogh has extensive experience with elitesportsfolk and was at last summer’s WORLD cup finals in Russia. Photo: Lars Poulsen
But first there must therefore, is the proper, individual treatment, and it can take a little time. At the same time, the hit may be more susceptible to other diseases.

rheumatoid Arthritis is a disease in which the immune system attacks the body itself and especially the joints, and the medicine works by sticking a spanner in the works on a specific part of your immune system.

– and with that the medicine affects the immune system, you may be more susceptible to infections, but you should not isolate you. So much greater is the risk, says Thøger Krogh, and explains that the Team Denmark general review hygiene rules with the athletes.

In relation to diet, there is the advantage with elitesportsfolk, that they already eat healthy and varied.

There is, however, not any lynkur, they can resort to, if they wake up on a competition day and feel that they go a bad day in the meeting.

– No, it is not there. But elitesportsfolk is the ended up there for a reason. They can bite pain on another level and perform well, where ordinary people had been at home that day.

The mental aspect is an important part of topsport, and in the area of the disease may in the beginning be a challenge.

– With all the chronic diseases you see an initial phase where you have to learn to live with it and accept it, so you can be mentally strained in such a period of time, until you find yourself comfortable, says Thøger Krogh.

Caroline Wozniacki in this week under the care of experts in New York, where she apparently now also on the training field again:

So many points to Caroline Wozniacki defend in 2019

INDIAN WELLS, 4. round, 120 points

MIAMI, 2R, 10 points

ISTANBUL, quarter-final, 60 points

MADRID, 3R, 120 points

ROME, 4R, 190 points

the FRENCH OPEN, 4R, 240 points

EASTBOURNE, wins, 470 points

WIMBLEDON, 2R, 70 points

MONTREAL, 2R, 1 points

CINCINNATI, 2R, 1 points

the US OPEN, 2R, 70 points

TOKYO, 2R, 1 points

WUHAN, the 3R, 105 points

BEIJING, wins 1,000 points

SÆSONFINALE, marseille, 500 points

Note: A Top 10-player, which is oversidder in the first round, gaining only 1 point defeat in the second round.

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