Dr. Bielecki
Rourke went first to Dr. Bielecki’s cabinet and after that attended the training session of Atom Trefl at ERGO Arena. Last year Rourke – before moving this summer to Azerbaijan – had broken all records in the Polish national league scoring 577 points throughout the season and she chiefly contributed to the second consecutive title for the club from the city situated nearby Gdansk.
Dr. Bielecki is quite a personality: he is still taking good care of the players of Atom Trefl, but also many sportspeople as well as actresses and actors are regularly visiting him as they fully trust his methods. If he is traveling to southern Poland or other cities in the country together with Atom Trefl, people are showing up even at the team’s hotel to undergo treatments. Therefore it is not very surprising that Rourke decided to travel to Sopot as did another former player of Trefl, Turkey’s Neriman Özsoy, who currently plays in her home country for Galatasaray Daikin ISTANBUL.
“I am so lucky to know you, Alek. Thank you – yesterday I could play Volleyball again” posted Özsoy on her Facebook account shortly after traveling back home.
Dr. Bielecki is a very quiet and modest man who sees his job as a kind of mission: “I have spent a lot of time with many Polish top athletes especially as we have been away together for training camps that sometimes lasted even for a couple of months, so finally I know them quite well” he explains. “I have been working with pole-vaulters Monika Pyrek and Anna Rogowska, as well as with our best discus thrower and Olympic silver medalist Piotr Malachowski. Some years ago I also assisted hammer thrower Kamila Skolimowska who prematurely died at the age of 27” he recalls. “I have also been working with our men’s and women’s Volleyball national teams. I attended the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and I remember that even though I was the official physiotherapist of the Volleyball team I ended up working all night long to take good care of handball players or some other athletes of our Olympic team, but that’s normal” adds Dr. Bielecki.
He may stop working a little earlier or on some days continue until late at night or even go on all night long but this does not bother him at all. “I treat all players equally as I do with any other patient. There is no difference even though women are more sensitive but I never had any misunderstanding with anyone. Gender has no influence in getting injured or in nursing injuries.”
Last season the players of Atom Trefl SOPOT suffered no injuries at all and much credit for this achievement goes to the hands of Dr. Bielecki.
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