The first Dr. Chen’s Physical Rehabilitation Summit Forum was held at Dr. Chen’s STaR Studio. As the first two PhDs in national special needs of the Capital Institute of Physical Rehabilitation, Shi Yan and Luo Chen, respectively, made wonderful speeches, and struck “ideological sparks” with the audience.
Luo Chen’s speech, titled “Principles and Analysis of Common Sports Injuries,” through his long term experience of working and learning, summarized some mechanisms of common sports injuries that he understood, and analyzed their logical causal relationship. From the very beginning, he put emphasis on the importance of definition of concepts, which resonated with Dr. Chen: “Due to the difference between the Chinese and English languages, in many cases, we cannot translate certain English words literally, otherwise it would cause a great many errors.”
After the discussion on definition of concepts, Luo Chen summarized his own view on the cause of common sports injuries, which are excessive specialized training, incorrect movement patterns, and motor dysfunction, and they will result respectively in uncoordinated movement, decline of power transmission chains, lack of joint flexibility and stability, and so on. He used real cases, such as subacromial impingement syndrome, olecranon pain, radiocarpal joint pain, and so on, to support his theory.
After the speech, Dr. Chen asked Luo Chen to summarize the speech in a few words. Luo Chen could not come up with words, but “Ah...ah...ah....” Dr. Chen said, “I will use three words to sum it up: structure, control, and function. What do you all think? From beginning to end, Luo Chen’s speech was actually revolved around movement patterns, which expounded a mature and successful commercial movement pattern of the American Athletes Performance Training Center.” After he said this, everyone nodded.
Dr. Shi Yan, from another angle, expounded sports training's “System Dynamics Theories of Functioning Training for Sports.” As for the concept of “Functioning Training for Sports,” he explained that it was a translation that came from the time when the State General Administration submitted the report on preparation for the London Olympics in 2011, and that the famous Athletes Performance Training Center had mentioned it. Soon after, they established the functioning training for sports teams, and for understanding and in-depth analysis of this concept, we still need more theoretical support and practical training. Therefore, he wanted to take this opportunity to explore and learn from Dr. Chen and many coaches and researchers who are in the field of sports medicine.
Regarding from what angle to examine “Functioning Training for Sports,” Dr. Shi Yan said that when you start to learn a new system, if you simply restore it to its appearance, there would be many flaws. The saying, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” proves that the characteristics of combined systems cannot be completely distinguished by the characteristics of each part. If we want to study the characteristics of combined systems, we can use some of its internal indicators as reference to characterize the system because the internal structure and the changes mainly determine the function and behavior of the system. System Dynamics also falls under this prerequisite, which is that the behavior of the system is determined by the structure of the system, and the essence is that when solving a problem, one needs to find the best method to solve it. So when it applies to our functioning training for sports, for different individuals, we should find the best solution to improve our sports levels, and should not simply use some numerical indicators to characterize the physical state, or mechanically use other people’s training methods to train.
Dr. Shi Yan talked a lot about the system of theoretical frameworks, which slightly “confused” the students, who had been working in the line of clinical practice. But after the following discussion, everyone soon realized that Dr. Shi Yan was hoping to borrow system dynamics theory from industry to build this new concept of “Functioning Training for Sports,” and tentatively using a mature theory of non-sports medicine systems to interpret “Functioning Training for Sports” in sports training. Dr. Chen said that this theory and research are very necessary because without a correct theory and proper basic knowledge to guide us, our practice would be passive and lose direction. Even though he could not fully put the whole theory together, he would definitely become a “shoulder” for others to step on, and play an important role in future development.
During these three hours, the two doctors’ exciting speeches made the participants think and discuss, and the sports medicine practitioners, who had been engaging in years of clinical practice, gained some new knowledge and understanding in the field of theoretical training. Dr. Chen thanked them for their wonderful speeches, and their hard work, contributions and efforts toward the improvement of the entire sports training system. He hoped that everyone would make more progress in future learning, and perfect our country’s scientific training system.
Written by Wang Di
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