I. Introduction to sports medicine.
Sports Medicine (Sports Medicine) is a basic and clinical multidisciplinary and comprehensive applied medical discipline that combines medicine and sports. It studies the medical problems related to sports, including the effects of participation in sports training and lack of sports on health and patients’ bodies, prevention and treatment of sports injuries and diseases, the role of sports in disease prevention and rehabilitation, etc., in order to promote growth and development, enhance physical fitness, improve athletic ability and technical level.
The main focus is to study the effects of exercise, training, sports and lack of exercise on health and patient’s body functions, and its results are used for injury prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. This is the definition developed by the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS).
In layman’s terms sports medicine is the study of the effects of training, competition or general exercise on athletes, the general population and the sick and injured.
It can guide and improve the athletes’ performance and help the public to prevent diseases.
The scope of sports medicine around mainly includes five categories.
1, exercise physiology.
2, sports biomechanics.
3, sports nutrition.
4, sports traumatology.
5.Sports psychology.
Introduction of sports trauma knowledge.
Sports Injury (Sports Injury) refers to the acute or chronic injury of sports system caused by engaging in sports.
Sports Injury is an important part of sports medicine and orthopedic traumatology, and its basic theory is developed according to the theory of orthopedic traumatology and sports medicine, but its diagnosis and treatment are more demanding, and its treatment principles are roughly the same as orthopedic treatment principles, but different from orthopedics.
Its main purpose is the prevention of trauma in sports and reasonable professional treatment after the injury, so as to restore the injured person’s ability of sports, training and competition as soon as possible.
Third, be alert to joint hematoma.
Swelling, pain and hematoma after joint sprain is one of the most common symptoms and signs in orthopedics. Its appearance reflects extra-articular and/or intra-articular structural damage, or even local signs of certain systemic diseases such as hemophilia.
Knee injuries such as anterior and posterior cruciate ligament injuries, meniscal injuries, cartilage injuries, joint capsule tears, and patellar dislocations can all cause intra-articular hematoma. Acute intra-articular hematoma of the knee joint is 70% likely to be due to cruciate ligament injury.
Due to traditional beliefs and medical habits, patients often go to orthopedic or orthopedic hospitals for treatment after a joint sprain, and since no abnormalities are seen on X-ray, they are usually treated with topical Chinese medicine for soft tissue injuries or general bruising injuries, often misdiagnosing and mistreating them.
When a modern orthopedic specialist sees a patient, he or she must first take a detailed medical history, understand the patient’s injury, especially the mechanism of injury, treatment, combined with the specialized physical examination, comprehensive analysis, make a preliminary diagnosis, and sometimes do further auxiliary examinations such as joint magnetic resonance and arthroscopy to clarify the diagnosis and decide on further treatment plans such as arthroscopic meniscus suture or ligament reconstruction surgery, so as not to To avoid delaying the best treatment time.
What is an Artoscan device?
Artoscan is a special low field intensity MRI (0.2T E-MRI) for limbs, designed for examining limb joint diseases and sports trauma, equipped with several joint-specific coils, with the advantages of clear imaging, cheap (only $500), convenience, comfort, safety, and high diagnostic efficiency.
V. Introduction to arthroscopy.
Arthroscopy (Arthroscopy) is an advanced orthopedic examination and surgical equipment, used for the observation, diagnosis and treatment of intra-articular diseases, after the application of arthroscopy in the 1970s, many patients are happy to receive arthroscopic examination and microscopic surgery, so as to diagnose and treat joint diseases, arthroscopic surgery has the advantages of small scar, short hospitalization time and fast recovery.
Arthroscopy requires only two to three small 0.5-cm incisions in the skin, insertion of a pencil-thin inspection lens, connection of a miniature camera lens, lighting magnification system and monitor, and observation of intra-articular lesions.
Arthroscopic surgical instruments are as small as 1.7-4.0 mm in diameter and are inserted into the joint cavity, allowing the arthroscopic surgeon to treat intra-articular lesions based on television images. Arthroscopy can discover areas that are difficult to show on X-ray, find certain lesions that are difficult to observe with incisional surgery, and perform surgeries that are difficult to handle with general surgical instruments.
6. Minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery.
In the past, traditional open-joint surgery required a long incision to open the joint capsule, which caused the cells to dry out and die due to the exposure of joint cartilage, making it easy to cause joint adhesions after surgery. Minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery allows for direct visualization and treatment of intra-articular disease. It requires only a small incision and no incision of the joint capsule, resulting in minimal interference with the joint and rapid recovery.
Most knee and shoulder disorders can be treated with minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery, such as meniscal surgery and cruciate ligament reconstruction. The efficacy is significantly improved compared to traditional open surgery, and some arthroscopic examinations and surgeries can be done under local anesthesia without hospitalization, resulting in significant savings in medical costs.