The Winter Olympics ignited people's enthusiasm for sports! "The number of participants in ice and snow sports in the country has reached 346 million, and the participation rate of residents has reached 24.56%", on January 12, the statistical survey data of the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport showed that China has achieved the goal of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports". The vigorous development of ice and snow sports is also gradually promoting the development of sports rehabilitation in China.
China's Wang Qiang competed in the men's individual sprint (free technique) of cross-country skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 8. Photo by Zhang Hongxiang, Xinhua News Agency
Strong guarantee!
The Winter Olympics are equipped with rehabilitation engineers for many projects
Snow sports are high-risk sports, and athletes have a high probability of injury.
Wang Jianning and Ao Yingfang of the Institute of Sports Medicine of peking university third hospital published in the "Science and Technology Herald" article "Winter Olympic Games and Major Winter Sports Injuries" mentioned that the Winter Olympics, overall, alpine skiing, various types of snowboarding and freestyle snow sports and ice hockey projects have a high incidence of injuries, especially serious injuries and knee injuries. Tracking studies of previous Winter Olympics and FIS World Cup events have shown that ski sports injuries have a high incidence and are prone to serious injuries. Of all serious injuries, ligament sprains/tears and fractures have the highest incidence, with all types of injuries occurring most commonly in the knee joint.
At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the total number of Chinese sports delegations is 387, including 176 athletes. According to the list of Chinese sports delegations at the Beijing Winter Olympics, a number of project teams are equipped with rehabilitation engineers, including figure skating teams, curling teams, ice hockey women's teams, freestyle skiing U-track teams, biathlons, steel frame snow teams, etc. In addition, some projects are equipped with masseurs, physiotherapists, psychologists, etc., as well as a dedicated team of nutritionists.
Fast development!
In 2020, the total number of sports rehabilitation stores in China has reached 370
According to the statistics of China's rehabilitation medical market in the "China Health Statistical Yearbook", China's rehabilitation medical service market will enter the scale of 100 billion yuan in 2021.
China's sports rehabilitation industry sprouted in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but the first real sports rehabilitation institutions in China appeared around 2012.
In September 2021, the Sports Rehabilitation Industry Alliance published in the "Chinese Journal of Sports Medicine" "2020-2021 China Sports Rehabilitation Industry White Paper" shows that according to the survey statistics of the Sports Rehabilitation Industry Alliance, the number of institutional stores mainly engaged in sports rehabilitation services exceeded 100 for the first time in 2018, and the total number of sports rehabilitation stores in China in 2020 has reached 370, distributed in 28 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country, and 54 cities have at least 1 sports rehabilitation institution. Among them, the total number of stores in first-tier cities is 206, accounting for 56% of the total number of stores in the country. The three cities with the largest number of stores are Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, and the number of stores has exceeded 40.
Lack of talent!
The quantity and quality of sports rehabilitation talents need to be improved
According to the 2016 national "two sessions" proposal by the Central Committee of the Zhi Gong Dang, there are only about 36,000 people in China with professional and technical qualifications for rehabilitation therapists, which is 2.65 rehabilitation therapists/100,000 people according to international calculations, which is far lower than the average of 60 physical therapists/100,000 population in Europe and the United States.
In the past, the sports rehabilitation and health major was mainly aimed at professional athletes, and there were fewer talents with systematic knowledge of medical treatment and sports. Nowadays, the service personnel of the sports rehabilitation industry have gradually developed from a niche professional athlete and a very small number of high-end groups to a wider sports population and a middle-class population with rehabilitation needs, and the demand for talents is also higher.
Wang Huihui et al. published in the Journal of Beijing Industrial Vocational and Technical College in January 2022 in the "Visual Analysis of the Development Dynamics of Chinese and Foreign Sports Rehabilitation Professions" related research articles mentioned that compared with Canada, the United States, England and other countries, the current development of sports rehabilitation majors in mainland China mainly focuses on the construction of majors and the development of the curriculum system, and the discussion of employment destinations.
A visual analysis of the development dynamics of sports rehabilitation majors in China and abroad" is a common diagram of the domestic development keywords of sports rehabilitation majors in the article
In this regard, the article suggests that government departments should improve the professional talent training system such as professional qualification identification, post setting and promotion system as soon as possible; increase the coverage of sports rehabilitation treatment projects by labor medical insurance; establish sports rehabilitation majors with national characteristics; relevant scholars should take the initiative to learn from different countries and institutions and seek cooperation to promote the healthy development of the sports rehabilitation industry.
Editor-in-charge: Qiao Jingfang