In early September 2011, Mustafina and Alexandrov announced in an interview with TV Channel, Rossiya 2, that Mustafina would be resuming a full training schedule in December 2011 . In the meantime, Blythe Lawrence reported in the Gymnastics Examiner on the 17th September 2011 that Mustafina is continuing with her upper body conditioning, with rehabilitation work on her knee, and she is now adding new skills to her repertoire which does not require the use of her injured knee, such as a Memmel turn on the beam.
Blythe Lawrence
Mustafina