The sports medicine public science education program was launched, and experts called for: sports injuries should remember early diagnosis and early treatment

The Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will be held in Beijing soon, and sports-related topics have become the focus of attention. On January 19, the China Primary Health Care Foundation initiated and Johnson & Johnson Medical supported the public science popularization program "Health Benefit Start" launched, sports medicine experts called on sports medicine experts to avoid self-treatment, should seek the help of professional doctors in time, and actively cooperate with treatment and rehabilitation.

"Among the patients treated surgically by the Institute of Sports Medicine of the Third Hospital of Beijing Medicine, only 5.7% are athletes, and about 94% are ordinary people, who are the majority of sports injuries and injuries, and they should understand the relevant scientific knowledge." Yang Yuping, chief physician of sports medicine at Peking University Third Hospital, said.

Domestic sports medicine as a secondary discipline of clinical medicine, is receiving more and more attention, sports medicine technology from the vigorous development of tertiary hospitals, to the gradual development of secondary hospitals, from the initial incision surgery to the current mainstream minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery, clinicians in the direction of sports medicine are constantly seeking innovative, safe and efficient solutions to help patients recover faster, return to sports as soon as possible, and improve the quality of life.

Many people suffer from pain and swelling after sports injuries, but they do not go to the hospital for a long time, and when they go to the hospital, they often miss the best treatment period. Dai Xuesong, chief physician of the Department of Orthopedics of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, believes that doctors specializing in sports medicine should go out of clinics and hospitals, participate in science popularization, and spread the scientific knowledge of sports health to the people, so that the people can exercise safely and scientifically.

Raising public awareness of diseases is not achieved overnight, and it needs to be through continuous science popularization and long-term persistence. The "Health Benefit Start" public science education plan is precisely to build a long-term sports medicine science popularization and promotion platform, continue to popularize the knowledge of sports injury-related diseases, emergency treatment and correct treatment in the face of injuries, and improve the quality of life.

【Hot Question】

Which injuries require a visit to a sports medicine department?

Wang Xuesong, chief physician of the Department of Sports Medicine of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital: If it is an acute sprain, although there is no obvious fracture or dislocation of the bone, there is obvious swelling of the injury site after the sprain, and this situation should be treated in the sports medicine department in the acute stage. If you develop a chronic phase, such as a previous history of sports injuries, and repeated sprains in the same part, or a long period of chronic swelling after a sprain in a certain part or some exercises can not be done, you should also seek medical attention in time. If it is the upper limb shoulder joint, many middle-aged and elderly people are injured on the basis of degeneration, and once the shoulder joint has active mobility disorders, such as the arm cannot be lifted to a normal state, it should also be treated in time.

Do I need to apply hot compresses as soon as possible after a sports injury?

Yang Yuping, chief physician of the Department of Sports Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital: Ordinary people have some misunderstandings about the treatment of sports injuries, such as hot compresses for the first time after sports injuries. In fact, ice should be applied in the vast majority of cases. In addition, the idea that you can heat up after 48 hours of ice is also wrong. Acute injury is the destruction of arterial blood vessels or capillaries, the need to reduce local congestion in the affected area, it must be ice, but not continuous ice, because it will lead to frostbite, but should take the way of intermittent ice, and the ice time is longer than we previously thought, it is generally recommended to carry out intermittent ice packing within 2-4 weeks after injury.

Beijing News reporter Wang Kara

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