A brief summary of the differences between athletes (especially professional athletes) and ordinary people (including semi-professional athletes), to give a warning to ordinary people who do not know much about the situation! First of all, the biggest difference between professional athletes and ordinary people is that they are “professional”, that is, they need to make a living from it. In the face of intense training and competition, to a certain extent, they have no choice. Unlike ordinary people, who have their own jobs, sports are just a form of entertainment or part of the lifestyle. In other words, they can choose to rest and treat their injuries more reasonably, and they are in a position to do so objectively. Second, professional athletes may be rewarded with high amounts of money through more intense training and competition than the average person, which is often proportional to their effort, so it may be worthwhile for them to pay a certain level of health costs for this, because they may only be able to take such risks to get results or even pay that the average person cannot get. The average person, on the other hand, is different in that they rely primarily on their jobs to get paid, and even if they get very good results in sports (only in the general population, of course, which is still fundamentally different from athletes in practice), it doesn’t give them a huge extra payout. It may even affect their health because they do not receive reasonable rest and treatment in time, and instead affect their normal work, which is obviously a very undesirable result. Third, professional athletes, especially Chinese professional athletes, their main life on weekdays is training and competition, they train their muscle strength, physical flexibility, physical coordination, balance and so on every day in order to achieve good competition results, and at the same time, they are constantly under the psychological pressure brought to them by the competition, especially the competition results and income, in the long run, they will develop a much better psychological tolerance than In the long run, they will produce much better than ordinary people’s mental capacity, as well as strong physical conditions, while ordinary people are obviously very difficult to achieve this “state”. Therefore, in the case of more intense sports, ordinary people are obviously more vulnerable to sports injuries. Fourth, professional athletes through long-term training and competition, as well as related sports knowledge and practice, will have a considerable understanding of their own anatomical structure, functional status and general knowledge of injury prevention, in terms of sports injury prevention, they will obviously have more experience than ordinary people. Fifth, professional athletes usually have a strong medical and rehabilitation team behind them to give physical and mental support. Chinese professional athletes usually have their own team doctors, and almost every day they will get better rehabilitation, relaxation, physiotherapy and other treatments, and when necessary, sports medicine and even other corresponding departments of specialists in sports hospitals or even general hospitals will provide them with timely and effective medical help. This is obviously a condition that is impossible for ordinary people to have. Therefore, in summary, there is a huge difference between the average person and the professional athlete in terms of sports conditions, which will cause the same sports injury in these two groups of people will probably be different in the choice of treatment. Ordinary sports fans should always relax and “recognize the situation”, and not often compare themselves with professional athletes. Always remember: exercise is a very good way to add fun and health to our spare time, do not “put the cart before the horse”.