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Jeremy Rennerhas powered through unbelievable pain in the course of his remarkable recovery.
Christopher Vincent is a chiropractic sports physician and trainer who has worked with Renner on and off since 2011. In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, Vincent details the 52-year-old’s road to recovery and the measures they’re using to get him back to full health.
“When you’ve got 30 of those, your body is just sending pain signals to your brain from every part of your body. You can’t override them,” Vincent continues. “You’re mentally just trying to quiet them down. It’s happening 24 hours a day, so it’s not like he gets a reprieve when he’s sleeping. It doesn’t sleep, so it’s affecting your sleep, and that lack of sleep is affecting your recovery.”
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Vincent says he and a team of professionals have been trying to support Renner’s recovery “in all ways,” including in an anti-inflammatory diet and supplements that help reduce inflammation and those “pain signals getting to his brain.”
As he began to recover, Renner was “meditating and just trying to calm himself to override this. … As he’s in bed, we’re moving his shoulders, moving his hips, moving his limbs. Just trying to fire off some of those signals and keep the joints from freezing up, keep him moving.”
With Renner determined to get back on his feet, Vincent called in favors to get equipment like an antigravity treadmill and turned Renner’s home “into a full rehab center. We just started shipping things to his house. His mother was there going, ‘What’s this box? What is this machine?’ I’m like, ‘Just put it in the living room. We’ll use it later.’ "
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Vincent says Renner’s resilience in the three months since the near-fatal accident is a rarity.
“He’s an extremely unique and rare person. I’ve worked with hundreds and thousands of athletes, celebrities, regular people, and it’s really a special personality that has that drive and determination,” he says, adding that he’s confident Renner will “get through it to where you are back stronger than you were before the accident.”
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Renner’s close friend andRennervationsexecutive producer Rory Millikin also spoke to PEOPLE, echoing that the actor “carries this burden very heroically"and that his “mood is inspirational.”
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For more on Jeremy Renner and his road to recovery, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
source: people.com
