Chapter 150 The Giant's Achilles Heel

The problems that Jiang Jun encountered were also big problems for the Bobcats.

That is, Yao Ming was injured again.

In an internal confrontation match, Yao Ming, who had been upgraded to the main center, was in a very brave state. When he made a breakthrough layup, he was double-teamed by Diogu and Brown. After finishing the confrontation, he landed on the ground. After being shot by Diogu, he jumped down and stepped on Yao Ming's feet.

At that time, Yao Ming was lying on the ground in pain. The coach, team doctor and teammates quickly surrounded him and asked about Yao Ming's feelings.

"It seems to have caused the old wound." Yao Ming hissed and answered after a while withstood the pain.

This made head coach Brown's heart sank. As an old man who has coached for many years, he knows what a recurrence of an old injury means to the player.

Jordan, who was watching the game on the sidelines, was even more worried. He had already had a premonition of the seriousness of the problem.

Jiang Jun was beside him, watching the team doctors busy, frowning and meditating.

After Yao Ming came to the Bobcat, Jiang Jun once said half-jokingly to him twice, asking whether he would check his injuries himself. Yao Ming always thought that Jiang Jun was joking with him.

Almost a year after the last surgery, Yao Ming is now able to appear, and he feels that there should be no big problem.

Previously, a Chinese medicine doctor proposed to take care of the injured Yao Ming, but his long-term NBA career and the persuasion of his team Yao Zhi team, Yao Ming was influenced by the knowledge and believed in the level of American doctors. In the end, he rejected the opinions of traditional Chinese medicine doctors. After the operation, he himself believed that he would soon return to his best condition.

As for doctors like Jiang Jun, Yao Ming would not agree to him for treatment, and the Yao team behind him would not agree even more.

After being injured this time, Yao Ming returned to the locker room for examination and never appeared again.

After preliminary examination, doctors believed that Yao Ming's injury was not serious.

However, after the training match, Yao Ming looked a little disappointed. After all, he had just returned shortly after he found some form and was injured again. No one was feeling well. Yao Ming said that although the injury was near his ankle, it was not close to the part where he had left foot surgery last year. He will undergo further examinations, evaluate the specific injury status and determine the time of return.

After Yao Ming's injury was disclosed by the Charlotte Observer, it was quickly reprinted by major websites. Then it tightly grabbed the hearts of hundreds of millions of fans, and rumors about Yao Ming's injury continued to leak out. Some were optimistic and some were pessimistic.

According to media reports, Yao Ming's injury was not serious. He just felt a little sore. For protection reasons, he did not force himself to play, but waited for the doctor to check. It is reported that Yao Ming's injury was not serious and he might be able to rejoin the battle in a few days.

However, many netizens expressed extreme concerns about Yao Ming's frequent injuries.

In fact, Yao Ming's left foot has become his Achilles heel

Yao Ming, born in 1980, is not very old. But since he landed in NBA in 2002, Yao Ming has been injured 18 times, and his whole body is covered with scars. All kinds of minor injuries are not included, but the most serious injuries on his body are concentrated in his left foot. Fractures, spurs, and stress fractures. Yao Ming has undergone 4 major surgery on his left foot, which makes the steel plate rivets weigh one pound in the left foot weigh one pound. Such injuries are difficult for ordinary people even in daily life, and Yao Ming has to drag his injured foot to compete in the world's most intense basketball league.

Some people say that Yao Ming's injuries were all caused by the NBA, because his four surgeries were all after joining the Rockets, namely 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009. It now seems that the fifth surgery is possible. The NBA's excessive game intensity, the training method of Yao Ming and the Rockets team doctor's medical skills are the culprits that led to Yao Ming's early retirement.

But some netizens also questioned why only Yao Ming was so injured, while so many NBA players did not have such a painful experience? Jordan had to jump 60-70 times in every game, why didn’t he have such a serious foot injury? O’Neal was fouled by someone on his arm, why could he play until he was 38 years old? The intensity of the game, training method, these NBA players should be similar; the weight of the body, self-protection awareness, Yao Ming was not at a disadvantage, and there were other reasons for Yao Ming’s susceptibility to injury.

On the Internet, Yao Ming's injury has caused heated discussion. Who is the culprit? A post conducted a detailed analysis of this, which aroused strong response from fans.

This post said that the cause of Yao Ming's injury must be pushed forward. In 1997, when Yao Ming was still in the Shanghai Youth Team, he broke his left ankle because he stepped on someone else's foot during the game. In 1999, the left ankle fractured again, but he did not have surgery twice. Since then, Yao Ming's left foot has been broken from the shin, to the ankle, toe, and toe fractures, and his toenails cannot grow, and he has also developed bone spurs. It has to be said that Yao Ming has not been treated seriously since the first time the ankle fracture of his left foot, which has become more and more serious.

After Yao Ming's surgery in 2009, Duan Huajun, an expert in traditional Chinese medicine sports medicine and a research institute of Shandong Sports Science Research Center, asserted: "Yao Ming's frequent injuries are reported, which means that the previous few operations were not successful, and the possibility of further surgery to cure the root cause is almost zero. Yao Ming will be injured again in the near future." As a result, Yao Ming did fulfill Duan Huajun's prediction a year later.

It can be seen that since Yao Ming was injured in his left foot for the first time, he became sick after overwork, and his left foot could no longer support the body of his leg and became the outbreak point of all physical diseases. In the same situation, he would receive different treatments in the NBA. In 2007, the top scorer Oden of the NBA was still recovering from an injury to his right knee; in 2009, the rookie No. 1 pick Griffin rested for a whole year due to a stress fracture of his left knee, and was in very good condition after returning in 2010. If Yao Ming had received enough treatment and rest in 1997 or even when he had a fracture in 1999, he would not have played ball with one leg today.

Netizen "Xiao Se Se" said angrily: Chinese athletes are often equated with injuries, and most famous athletes are plagued by injuries. Lang Ping, Ye Qiaobo... We can draw out a group of famous "injury lists". Putting aside the cruelty of sports competition, are our mechanisms and concepts insufficient?!

Netizen "Ass Basketball Expert" analyzed: Doesn't our country pay attention to athletes? Of course not. Most sports teams are also willing but not capable and cannot help. In terms of Chinese basketball alone, many youth teams have only hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Clubs in economically developed regions such as Guangdong and Fujian are willing to spend money on second- and third-tier teams, and only 1-2 million to 2 million a year. This money is mainly used to play games, improve food, hire excellent coaches, and give players a little more salary. Very few are used in medical insurance. For example, the kind of injury that Yao Ming encountered when he was 17 years old. Ordinary youth teams cannot afford his medical expenses and can only treat conservatively. The treatment costs of hundreds of thousands of yuan are not affordable in most clubs in China, let alone treat abroad.

Yao Ming's wife Ye Li also missed the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to injury, but the Chinese women's basketball team also struggled to have no funds to treat her. After she retired, she spent money to perform surgery in the United States. This is also because Yao Ming and Ye Li's family have the financial strength to bear the cost of foreign surgery. How can ordinary athletes get such good medical conditions?

Some netizens disclosed that in addition to key teams such as the national team, the vast majority of provincial and municipal sports teams and clubs generally lack the education and training mechanism of team doctors. Team doctors generally lack the ability to identify strains, and their ability to prevent and treat injuries is relatively backward. In addition, affected by the idea of ​​athletes being eager for quick success and instant benefits, the hidden damage of Chinese athletes often cannot be actively treated. Some injuries that are already quite serious from the perspective of doctors are also artificially ignored. Often, when there is a problem with the injury, it is very serious and cannot persist before starting treatment.

Some media believe that in addition to treatment and protection, athletes' training is also an important way to make them suffer as little injuries as possible. When Yao Ming first started as an athlete, the tradition of domestic sports was still "slight injuries but not off the line of the fire". Taking the field with injuries was a kind of honor. Therefore, at that time, you should persist if you have injuries, let alone use scientific training methods to cure injuries. It is understood that many athletes devoted themselves to intense training after the recovery period of acute injury, which resulted in multiple injuries.

This is consciousness and method. There is a general understanding of American basketball, which is to practice physical fitness before practicing. Only when the body is strong can the damage be reduced in fierce confrontation. Therefore, in foreign clubs, the strength room is an essential hardware facility for team training, and professional physical fitness teachers are often arranged to guide athletes to practice physical fitness. Our country started very late in this regard. Even the national teams of men's and women's basketball teams only included physical fitness training in the training plan before the 2008 Olympics, equipped with professional physical fitness teachers and nutritionists to assist in training. When Yao Ming was young, although the General Administration of Sports of China was in charge of the National Sports Administration.

The training bureau also has a strength room, but everyone trains on their own consciously, and there is no scientific word at all. If you rush around the simple equipment a few times, you will have to practice strength. Therefore, when Yao Ming entered the NBA in 2002, his body was as thin as a matchstick. In order to adapt to the high-intensity NBA games, he had to increase his weight on the one hand and increase his muscle strength on the other hand, so that Yao Ming was in a physical overdrawn state most of the time. Just imagine, if Yao Ming had the current training level and training conditions of the Chinese men's basketball national team before going to the NBA, he would definitely not have his body bear so much burden, which would reduce the chance of injury.

Another is the professionalization of Chinese sports. When Yao Ming first arrived at the NBA, the most difficult thing to adapt to was not training and competitions, but travel. Half of the 82 games in the NBA regular season were away games. In addition to training, the game was flying. He often left the field at 11 o'clock in the evening to go to the airport, and did not reach the next game site in the middle of the night. His body was in an overdrawn state, and he had to adjust his rest and sleep during fatigued travel, which increased the burden on his body. Now the players in the domestic basketball league are already very accustomed to this kind of long-term travel game state, but 10 years ago our players were still very unprofessional, played very few games, and most of the time they worked behind closed doors, which brought great difficulties to Yao Ming's later adaptation to the NBA life.

Therefore, netizens called for the "people are forced out" that it is necessary to accelerate the professionalization reform of domestic sports events, align with the international level, and improve the treatment and guarantee system at all levels of domestic sports. After Yao Ming entered the NBA, domestic basketball teams obtained a lot of knowledge about the training methods and professional models of NBA from Yao Ming, and reformed domestic basketball. Some results have been achieved in recent years. But it has to be said that for most Chinese sports events, it is far from reaching the professionalization of basketball profession, and it is very different from international mature leagues.

Jiang Jun browsed the news online and had to sigh at Yao Ming's influence.

However, his discussions with netizens were just a show. After all, it is not difficult for internal experts to cure injuries like these.

The key is how to get Yao Ming to receive his own treatment.

Moreover, Jiang Jun didn't want to reveal his identity as a martial arts master. It would take some thought.

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