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Introduction on Sports Medicine
Sports medicine is a relatively new science in our country.
It is an integrated science that deals in the study of effects
of motions on human body, and has close relationship with
basic medicine, clinical medicine and preventive medicine.
It was gradually formulated along with the need for sports
development and scientific division of laborwork.
The Purpose of Sports Medicine:
- To study how to improve human physique
and disease prevention and treatment through sports exercise,
and provide scientific theory as foundation.
- To utilize modern medical methods
to evaluate level of exercise, to regulate reasonable amount
of exercise, to enable speedy recovery from fatigue, and
to prevent from becoming over fatigue.
- To prevent physical injuries and sports-related
diseases
Tasks of Sport Medicine:
- Medical management (Diagnosis of athletes’
bodily functions, prevention of sports-related diseases,
exercise program during period of recuperation, and sports
hygiene).
- Sports injury (Prevention of sports trauma)
- Nutrition and hygiene of the athletes.
- Sports Therapy(Sports therapy for
disabled people)
This sports medicine specialist web page
is aimed to share information to people who love sports, so
that the knowledge of sports medicine can reach the public who
may benefit from sports while reducing injury. Many people say,
“Exercise determines life.” Exercise can improve
physique, delay aging, and resist diseases. However, every individual’s
age, physical ability, disease record, exercise habits, and
others are different. Thus, the selection of an exercise program
and amount of exercise depends on the individual. For people
with chronic disease and elderly people who want to participate
physical activity, the best to do it under doctor supervision,
or at least, seek the opinion of a specialist. It is suggested
that in the beginning, the exercise should be proceeded in an
orderly way and in step-by-step manner. Some self-adjustments
need to be taken according to the different warning signs during
the activity.
Sore.
For people who have recently joined the sports activity, it
is normal to experience soreness after exercise. It is not
recommended to discontinue the exercise until the soreness
disappears. It is one of the reasons why many people cannot
continue with the exercise program. The soreness occurring
during the early stage of exercise is a physiological reaction
caused by the increased metabolic production inside muscle
such as lactic acid produced during exercise. Therefore, continue
with proper amount of sports exercise to increase the blood
circulation of the muscle. Use exercise to “cure”
the soreness of the muscles, and it would speed up its disappearance.
Once the stage of soreness has passed, the amount of exercise
can be gradually increased.
Pain.
During exercise, if the pain from original diseases increase
or new painful areas have been added, it is an indication
that improper exercise, e.g. sudden loss of breathe during
a long distant run, sudden stiff-neck and arm when exercising
the neck, sudden backache during lumbodorsal exercise, or
gradual increase of the original arthritis and lumbocrural
pain. This is the time to reduce amount of exercise or change
the exercise program. It would be very beneficial if the doctor’s
exercise prescription can be followed. There are several issues
that need to be pointed out:
- One time pain is not necessarily a sign.
If during the exercise there are occasional pains but no
obvious discomfort after the exercise, and do not happen
again in the next exercise, then there is nothing to worry
about;
- For some diseases, such as periarthritis
of shoulder, the increased pain during the exercises requires
treatment, and is not a sign;
- During the exercise, if have pain at
the front chest, shall stop the exercise immediately, to
avoid accidents.
Fatigue. This
is a relatively confusing concept. Fatigue, could mean “fatigue”
in the spiritual and psychological aspects, such as the fatigues
caused by factors of pressure, competition, frustration, etc.
There are also “fatigues” in the physical aspect,
such as the fatigues caused by over labor, over exercise, suffering
from colds, or other diseases. Normally, the “fatigue”
in the spiritual and psychological aspects can use “sports”
as the medicine to achieve relaxation and revival of the spirit.
While, once the “fatigue” in the physical aspect
occurs, exercise should be reduced or even temporarily stopped
to avoid any risk. In recent years, there are many reported
cases in the newspaper about sudden death of senior people who
insist on maintaining their regular morning exercise despite
experiencing fatigue, which should have served us as a warning
sign. Therefore, only those people who are having fatigue caused
by spiritual and psychological factors can continue exercise.
But for people who have fatigue caused by physical factors,
or both factors (most of the cases), or caused by factors that
cannot be determined, then they should discontinue exercise
in order to cope. Once ready to resume the exercise, it should
be done gradual and with vigilance.
Tingling. Tingling
feeling occurring during the exercise is usually an indication
that of partial nerves are under pressure, which is a signal
for stopping exercise immediately. It means that there might
be some pathologic change occurring inside the body. It could
also mean that there is mistake in the method of exercise
or wrong choice of exercise program. After having tingling
feeling, one should not stop at changing sports program or
exercise methods. Instead, one should go to the hospital and
carefully look for reasons and actively treat the disease.
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