India, Oct. 17 -- When long jumper Murali Sreeshankar ruptured the patellar tendon in his left knee while training in Palakkad in April 2024, surgeons reattached it with three anchor screws and a wire looped around the kneecap, and early in his recovery, his team already had the knee moving and the muscles around it working. "We know that the repair heals better when there is some stress placed on it, rather than none," said Wayne Lombard, an athlete performance specialist who has worked on Sreeshankar's comebacks. On July 29 this year, Sreeshankar won silver at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with a jump of 8.09m and then went on grab a silver at the Asian Games on September 27 with a jump of 8.07m. The principle behind that recovery now...