https://www.a-love-supreme.com/single-post/evans-on-recovery Corry Evans has spoken about the next steps in his recovery from long-term injury. He wasn't expected to be fully fit until Christmas, but Sunderland's captain has been grafting over the summer and is hoping to get out of the gym and onto the grass in the coming weeks... INJURED GROUP "I've been in [the gym] all summer. There have been a few of us in - myself, Ross, Aji, Dennis, Danny Batth, Dan Ballard, Embo - there has been a big group of us. The other lads have been off on holiday while we have been in working and trying to get fit for the new season. Mentally it's tough being injured, especially long-term, so to have people going through it with you day-to-day helps you a lot." STARTING TO MOVE A BIT MORE "There are long hours and it can get a bit lonely if you're on your own, so to have those players alongside me with their own injuries and their own journeys has been a bit of a support network. But it's going well. I'm just over five months into it now and I'm getting to that stage where I'm starting to move a bit more." STAGES OF REHAB "The first stage of this injury is letting the knee settle, and from then on you have to build up the strength. I'm at a good stage now where I am on the altered gravity treadmill which takes the load off your bodyweight when you are running. Hopefully within the next week or two I can get outside on the grass and get out of the gym for a change of scenery and to start my running." PRE-SEASON "Pre-season is something you have to do. It is so vital that you get a good pre-season under your belt because it holds you in good stead for the rest of the season and it stops you from picking up injuries. It gives you that base of fitness that lasts throughout the season. All the lads have come back and look really fit from their test scores - it's good to see that they have come back in really good nick, and I'm sure they are now looking forward to playing the games and going off to America as well."
