I mean, you’ve got a game plan on how you’re going to progress every day and then work, but you can’t prepare. You can’t really imagine how the process is going to be until you go through it, and when you’re in it, it teaches you a lot. “To me it wasn’t about wondering if I could ever get back (to before the injury), to me it was just the progress,” Longa said.
Injured Lions players typically don't travel to road games, and during practice, a “rehab” group of players works out separately with trainers while teammates go through their daily paces on the field.ĭepending on the nature of the injury, players are forced to mark their progress in weeks or months rather than days. He spent the past 12 months rehabbing, and while he spent much of that time around coaches and teammates, he still was apart from them in many ways. Longa tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in a preseason game in August 2018 and returned to practice for the first time Monday. It’s just a lot of patience, and mentally more so than physically.” But at the end of the day, it’s one day at a time and it teaches you patience. “You go from a position where you are fully healthy to not, and you’re trying to get back to that fully healthy you. “Rehab is a grind,” linebacker Steve Longa said. That’s why Amendola and others said rehab can be more taxing on a player’s psyche than his body.
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