Sports medicine is a comprehensive applied science that combines medicine and sports. It studies medical problems related to sports, and uses medical knowledge and techniques to supervise and guide sports participants medically, so as to prevent injuries and diseases, protect the health of sportsmen, enhance physical fitness and improve sports performance.
In addition to sports can make athletes for the country’s glory, but also can make people strong and healthy, as the saying goes: “life is sports”.
The high intensity of sports training inevitably brings different degrees of injury to athletes, this accumulation of sports injuries over the years, is the most troubling factor for athletes.
The Beijing Olympic Games has made the country’s men and women enthusiastic about sports, and the hot scene of national fitness is everywhere outside the games: the community is active on the fitness equipment, and exercise in the gym has gradually become a fashionable trend.
Many people think that sports medicine is only for athletes to diagnose and treat injuries, and ordinary people do not have much to do with, but in fact, in sports, whether it is athletes or ordinary people are inevitably injured, so the scientific exercise is very necessary.
Sports medicine monitoring to prevent injuries before they occur
Sports medicine monitoring is to test the physiological and biochemical indicators of the muscles in the process of exercise, according to the test results to determine the athletic ability of the test subject, to understand the physical condition of the muscles, the respiratory system, cardiovascular system, digestive system and other conditions of the athletes, to determine whether there are potential sports diseases, whether the system function is intact, whether there is an impact on sports, etc..
Sports medicine monitoring is no longer the “patent” of athletes, and gradually into the general public, nowadays a little upscale gym, before you first do fitness card, fitness coach will do a test of your body indicators, monitoring whether you can engage in sports, suitable for which sports, which sports are not appropriate to choose.
Many middle-aged and elderly friends have the idea that their chronic diseases can be gradually alleviated or even recovered through long-term exercise, but it is scientifically proven that if you stop taking medication during exercise, your condition will recur. It can be seen that the elderly friends, especially those suffering from diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease and other chronic diseases, exercise depends on their own situation, should not be excessive exercise. Excessive, inappropriate exercise not only can not achieve the effect of exercise, but also cause damage to the body, and in serious cases, even sudden death from exercise.
Sports injuries need to pay attention to
Sports medicine has an important concept, that is, prevention-oriented. If you do not do a good job of prevention before the usual exercise, until the injury occurred, and then do surgery to repair, this practice will bring a lot of unnecessary damage to the muscle.
Athletes, whether before the game, or training will do warm-up exercises, in addition to avoid unnecessary injury, but also better and faster into the game and training. In sports, muscle, joint, ligament and other soft tissue injuries are most common, so we must do a good job in addition to warm-up exercises before exercise, in the interval between sports, but also to do a good job of muscle relaxation activities. Once the injury occurs in sports, do not ignore, serious cases should seek medical attention.
In the process of treatment of sports injuries, patients tend to pay more attention, but when it comes to the rehabilitation training phase, often neglected. Rehabilitation training in China is a new discipline, many people do not understand, think that rehabilitation training is physical therapy, in fact, this view is wrong. Some of the joint injuries caused during sports may appear to be fine, but without rehabilitation, adhesions are likely to occur, resulting in reduced joint mobility and greater pain for the patient.
Focus on diet and nutrition
The impact of diet on human health and athletic ability is gradually recognized and accepted. The nutrients required by the human body can be divided into seven categories: sugar, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and water. From the nutritional point of view, human exercise should not only have sufficient caloric energy, and the content and proportion of protein, fat, carbohydrates should be appropriate, and sufficient inorganic salts, vitamins, trace elements and water, that is to say, the daily variety of food and the number of choices should be just right.
Sugar is one of the important energy substances in exercise, and reasonable supplementation of sugar during exercise can reduce glycogen consumption and help improve exercise capacity. Sugar intake immediately after exercise has a better effect on restoring liver glycogen. Sugar intake is appropriate in grain, root food, vegetables, fruits, animal liver and milk.
The intake of protein, vitamins and minerals can be of great help to exercise, for example: calcium, magnesium and vitamin C can prevent inadvertent fractures during exercise, as well as improve physical performance, while vitamin B can also improve the ability to react. However, the body itself will not synthesize vitamins, so it must be taken from outside the body, supplemental vitamins, eat more fruits and vegetables is a good way. For example: eat more kiwi, known as the “king of fruits”, and eat more tomatoes, the most common in life, these two fruits and vegetables contain a lot of vitamin C, so vitamins in daily life is easy to supplement.
After a lot of exercise, the body’s metabolic products date lactic acid, acetone gradually accumulated too much, resulting in acidic body fluids, so that the body has a sense of fatigue. In order to maintain the acid-base balance of body fluids and neutralize excess acid, you need to eat more alkaline fruits, such as: orange, grapefruit, orange, lemon, plum, etc. You can also eat alkaline food spirulina.
Since ancient times, honey is considered to be very nutritious food for the human body, and the honey of a hundred flowers, is a collection of the essence of a hundred flowers, peace of five organs and moisten the stomach, has a very good anti-fatigue effect.
Let sports medicine escort for health
Medical sports in China has a long history of development, the Chinese traditional medicine – Chinese medicine, as early as about 1000 B.C. has invoked manipulation massage, acupuncture, Chinese herbs used externally to prevent strains and sprains and other diseases. Today’s Chinese medicine has not only inherited the essence of traditional medicine, but also absorbed the essence of Western medicine, and has made great development and progress in the prevention and treatment of sports injuries.
Minimally invasive technology is an outstanding product of modern medicine. Minimally invasive technology is characterized by less trauma, shorter recovery time and faster functional recovery, and it is very effective in treating knee injuries caused by high-intensity sports.