Michael Schumacher undergoing muscle training

Michael Schumacher

F1 legend Michael Schumacher is being given muscle training so that his muscles don’t start to degrade. Schumacher has been in medically induced coma for 4 weeks now and there are fears that he could remain in a “persistent vegetative state” for the rest of his life if he wakes up from his coma.

Emergency medicine expert Professor Heinzpeter Moecke stated: “Patients in comas need limbs and joints moved daily to ensure muscles do not atrophy.”

The format.at news website said: “More than three weeks after the tragic skiing accident of the seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher, hope dwindles for a full recovery. For more than three weeks now Schumacher lies in a medically induced coma at the University Hospital in Grenoble. He is fed there with probes, washed daily and moved again and again to avoid a bed sores.”

Jean-Marc Orgogozo, Professor of Neurology at the University of Bordeaux, stated: “Every day, every week in a coma the chances decline that the situation is improving.”

The former racer is in an intensive care in Grenoble following his ski accident nearly a month ago.