Sports medicine starts with the Sun Miracle Doctor

Chapter 278 Yip Syndrome

After coming out of O'Neill's ward and completing the next round of ward rounds, Chen Yu went straight to the operating room to prepare for surgery.

There are many things now and there are many players to worry about, but Chen Yu will still try his best to make time for surgery.

After all, many patients come to the clinic just for themselves.

You also need to improve your treatment effects and improve your skills.

After changing into surgical clothes in the locker room, Lexie barged in.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yu hugged Lexie smoothly.

Lexi pushed Chen Yu away gently and said, "There is a patient who has no appointment and was introduced by Kalva. He is quite strange. I think you need to go see him."

Chen Yu was slightly stunned. Calva was Hill's father and the majority shareholder of the clinic. The patient he introduced should be an MLB player.

In the past two years, he has frequently introduced patients to the clinic.

The two were very close, but Chen Yu's mind kept thinking about the problem of suddenly not being able to throw.

Chen Yu was very good at this kind of percussive surgery and quickly completed the replacement of the femoral head.

"What do you mean by strange?" Chen Yu asked.

The more Chen Yu thought about it, the more likely it was, otherwise the strange symptom of not being able to pitch would not have suddenly appeared.

This is a hemi-hip hip replacement surgery.

After leaving the finishing work to William, Chen Yu left the operating room, hurriedly put on a white coat, and asked the nurse to call Jamie, and they went to the diagnosis and treatment area together.

However, Chen Yu was not in a hurry to explain, saying: "It's a very troublesome disease. So, I'll do the surgery first and explain it to you later."

"It's only in the past few years that a team has started to follow up and study it, and named it after the golf term Yipu. In serious cases, the situation you described will occur. A top athlete who has been training for more than ten years, it seems that overnight, It's like losing your game skills all of a sudden."

"At first, many people just thought they were psychological problems, such as excessive psychological pressure because it was a key match, but later they found that similar situations also appeared in baseball, darts, and tennis players. It was not a simple dystonia, but There are no obvious neurological lesions."

Lexi nodded, stood on tiptoes slightly, and helped Chen Yu adjust the surgical cap.

Then, he suddenly thought of something and whispered: "I thought of a possibility, he might not have Yip Syndrome."

Of course Chen Yu knew about the muscle tone defect, but what did it mean when he suddenly couldn't pitch?

"Let him explain to you." Chen Yu pointed at Jamie.

Jamie said: "This disease has been around for a long time, but it was first noticed by someone in the 1960s and 1970s. It is highly prevalent among golfers. Some golfers will suddenly experience convulsions, body stiffness, etc. during key matches. , especially prone to appear on the wrists and fingers, leading to inaccurate putts.”

"Yip syndrome?" On the way, after hearing Chen Yu's description, Jamie said with some surprise: "Chen, you are so busy, you still have time to read papers and learn about this unpopular disease?"

Lexi said with a puzzled expression: "My initial diagnosis was a muscle tone defect caused by a neurological disease, but the main symptoms were not consistent. He was a pitcher, but suddenly, he couldn't pitch anymore and couldn't pitch accurately. So I felt weird."

Some media joked that Chen Yu's clinic has become MLB's official cooperative medical institution.

"What disease?" Lexie was stunned.

"In this case, you ask him to wait a moment, and I'll go see him after the operation." Chen Yu said. The patients here were all lying on the operating table.

Chen Yu rolled his eyes at him: "I can't help it. Learning makes people progress. Medical science is developing so fast. If I don't learn, I'm afraid of being eliminated. Do you know that what's next to the toilet in my house is not a gossip magazine, but a magazine? Leaf blades and cells.”

Jamie gave a thumbs up and was about to say more when Lexie came up to him and asked what Yip Syndrome was.

Lexie frowned and took note, then asked the key question, how to treat it.

Jamie shrugged, shook his head and said: "There is currently no treatment. I read the research report from Harvard Medical School. They think it can be treated by blocking neurotransmission, but it can only treat the symptoms, but not the root cause."

The subtext is that this is almost a terminal illness.

Chen Yu pushed the door open and entered.

In the clinic, there was a young man sitting. He was very young, only 22 years old this year. His O-shaped beard was unkempt and slightly sloppy. There was a black man in a suit and tie beside him.

When Chen Yu came in, the black man came up to him immediately, hugged Chen Yu cordially and said hello.

"Chen, we meet again."

"Rick."

Chen Yu shook hands with him, and then said with some surprise: "Is he also a player under my command?"

The black man in front of me is Rick Smith. He is a well-known agent in the MLB. His players are all over the major and minor leagues. Two players have been treated by Chen Yu, so I have met him several times.

Rick sighed, nodded helplessly, and begged: "Chen, we really have no choice but to find you in the end, so please find a way to cure Rick. He is a genius."

Chen Yu has heard words like he is a genius many times.

But this Rick Ankiel should live up to his name.

He was an All-American in high school and was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals. In 99, he was the MVP of the minor leagues. He officially entered the major leagues in 2000. In his first rookie season, his strikeout rate ranked second in the league, second only to Randy Johnson, the best pitcher in the league. There is no doubt that this is a rising star.

But in the first round of the playoffs that season, he performed well in the first two innings. In the third inning, he suddenly became like a swimmer in a swimming pool who has forgotten how to swim and became unable to throw.

From that day on, he suddenly lost his ability to pitch and could no longer step onto the mound.

Cardinal did not give up on him. He also traveled to the United States and even the world, looking for a treatment plan, but more than a year later, he could not be cured.

Chen Yu looked at Rick with a smile, and his all-seeing eyes scanned his body carefully.

There were signs of injuries on his body.

This is normal, after all, we are professional athletes.

But there's nothing wrong with his hands and shoulders, the parts that allow him to complete the pitching motion.

Chen Yu's eyes penetrated the flesh and fell on the nerves.

For more than a year, Rick has been looking for a neurologist to try to treat his disease.

In the end, there was no other way, so someone recommended him to try Chen Yu, because the recommended doctor thought it should be a movement disorder, and Chen Yu was undoubtedly an authority in sports treatment.

So here they come.

Chen Yu conveniently picked up the EEG to check, but his attention was still on Rick, especially his head and cerebral cortex.

During the operation, Chen Yu tried hard to recall all the papers and research findings he had read about Yip syndrome.

There are still some groups studying this disease.

Then it seemed that last year, a research team at Mayo had a speculation about this disease.

That is to say, the emergence of this disease is related to the plastic changes of the cerebral cortex.

The cerebral cortex controls the perception and movement of various parts of the human body, and they believe that when the human body overtrains a certain body part, as is the case with Rick, a pitcher who has spent his entire life training his wrists, fingers and arms.

The cerebral cortex corresponding to these parts undergoes plastic changes due to repeated stimulation, and the range of control becomes larger, thereby affecting other areas, eventually leading to disordered nerve signals, stiffness, twitching, etc. in the body.

But Chen Yu feels that this is just a physiological change. Just like Parkinson's, it is a disease in the body that causes twitching and stiffness when you make relevant movements.

But like Rick, not only did his pitching fail, but his brain also forgot those pitching skills and was unable to throw the ball at the original level. This cannot be simply considered a physiological problem.

The most important thing is that Chen Yu couldn't accurately see whether there were any lesions in the cerebral cortex even when he scanned it with his all-seeing eyes.

"Rick." Chen Yu thought for a moment and said, "Our initial diagnosis of your situation should be Yip Syndrome, but this disease is very troublesome, and we need to study carefully how to treat it."

This disease may seem related to exercise, but it is more of a neurological problem and should belong to the Department of Neurology.

Therefore, for a while, Chen Yu couldn't think of a good treatment idea.

There was a hint of sadness and melancholy in Rick's eyes, as if he had faced this situation many times.

Even a little desperate.

You know, the Chen Yu in front of you is known as a miracle doctor.

Chen Yu also noticed the change in Rick's expression, and felt inexplicably emotional.

A rising supernova, in the best years of his life, when his more than ten years of training is about to reap the fruits, when he starts to make a lot of money, and starts a beautiful life, the impact of suffering from such a disease can be imagined.

"Let's do this." Chen Yu spoke again and said, "Rick, I will arrange for you to go to my sports laboratory. I will have people there to test and record your physical condition, and then I will prescribe some for you. For medicine, you take it for a cycle, retest it, and compare it before and after to see if the medicine can work.”

Since it is impossible to know what causes this disease, you should start with the symptoms.

If he can't pitch anymore, just think he has a mental problem.

Prescribe him some neurotrophic drugs, such as gangliosides, and give him a try first.

Ordinary drugs may not have much effect, but Chen Yu has a system, and with the efficacy of drugs, maybe they will be effective.

After taking the drug, do a comparative test to determine whether his condition has improved, and then consider whether this treatment method is useful.

"Of course, this is just the first step. I still need to conduct further research on specific subsequent treatments."

Chen Yu plans to start from the psychological aspect.

Because this disease was initially considered by the medical community to be a type of anxiety disorder.

When many people face great pressure, their bodies suddenly become stiff and extremely tense. Many psychiatrists recommend that they wear a rubber band on their wrists and snap it when something goes wrong to stimulate the body with pain and relieve anxiety. This is a common treatment method. .

Then Chen Yu can also think of ways from this aspect.

(End of this chapter)