What is the principle of sports injury rehabilitation: step by step, follow your senses!

  In my own clinical experience and feelings, I feel that almost every patient who has suffered a sports trauma has two questions, “When will I be able to return to sports? What is the process of rehabilitation like?”  With the combination of my own injury rehabilitation and my experience in rehabilitating patients, I have come up with a simple, but I think the most important principle, which I call “step by step, follow the feeling” principle.  The simple explanation is that the patient should carefully experience the state of his or her body, especially the injured part (the next paragraph explains this state), and gradually resume rehabilitative exercises. form and degree of exercise is tolerated.  In other words, everyone has a sense of his or her own tissues, and whether it is at the time of injury or during the rehabilitation process after injury, the patient will feel the state of his or her injured tissues more accurately; after this feeling is analyzed by experienced doctors and then informed to the patient, most patients can grasp their injury and recovery state more accurately; this feeling is often more accurate than the doctor’s experience, and has a more precise meaning for the guidance of rehabilitation. This feeling is often more accurate than the doctor’s experience and has a more refined meaning for the guidance of rehabilitation.  Therefore, in my opinion, each person is indeed one of the best doctors for himself or herself. Because doctors cannot personally experience what patients feel, and because doctors have not had every disease, most of their knowledge comes from patients’ complaints and the experience left by their predecessors, only the patients themselves can personally experience the pain of the disease. Therefore, it is only necessary to have a certain amount of general medical knowledge (which requires patient teaching by professional doctors and learning from other sources by yourself), and under the guidance of other professional doctors, the patient can usually help you to make a smooth recovery by yourself.  Of course, in this process, and do not go to the other extreme, that is, completely follow the feeling, do not listen to the doctor’s advice. Because the patient’s medical knowledge is after all limited, sometimes he or she will make wrong judgments. This is the time when a professional doctor is needed to help guide and gatekeep the rehabilitation results.