Sports medicine starts with the Sun Miracle Doctor

Chapter 90 Intervertebral Disc

Due to traffic jam, when we arrived at Madison Square Garden, all members of the Suns team had already arrived from the hotel for warm-up training.

When he rushed to the locker room, Byron Howard was applying muscle tape on Dudley's calf. When he saw Chen Yu entering the door, he quickly stood up.

"Where's Jason?"

Chen Yu glanced at the locker room and didn't see Kidd.

Dudley pointed outside: "Going to warm up."

Chen Yu nodded and was about to go to the court. He stopped again, pointed at Dudley's calf and said, "The muscles are too tight, please loosen them a little."

After saying that, he turned around and left the locker room.

Byron Howard glanced at the muscle tape in confusion, but didn't use it. He just took a look and knew if it was tight or not?

"Is it tight?" he looked up and asked Dudley.

Dudley thought for a moment and asked, "What do you think?"

Byron Howard smiled bitterly and tore off the muscle patch directly: "I think Chen is right."

On the court, Nelson was staring at Kidd shooting when someone tapped him on the shoulder. When he turned around, he found that it was Chen Yu.

"How is the situation?" Chen Yu looked at Kidd.

Nelson said: "Fortunately, the warm-up process went smoothly and there were no obvious pain symptoms."

While he was talking, Chen Yu had already scanned Kidd's back with his all-seeing eyes, and his eyebrows instantly furrowed.

Damn it, I'm so stupid this time.

By chance, he actually ran into it!

"Jason, stop." Chen Yu shouted.

Kidd stopped and noticed that Chen Yu had arrived, and said unexpectedly: "Chen, you are really here."

Nelson told him that Chen Yu was coming to take a look, but he didn't expect that he actually came.

"I feel pretty good, there's nothing wrong with it." Kidd came over and moved his body.

Nelson's face changed slightly and he asked hurriedly: "Chen, is there something wrong?"

Chen Yu nodded, thought for a moment, and asked aloud: "Jason, how old are you?"

It seems that he was born in 73, a few years younger than me.

"I'll be 28 in one month, what's wrong?" Kidd was confused, why did he ask about his age?

Chen Yu sighed: "That's not too small."

Looking at Kidd again, Chen Yu scolded that Bruce Bowen a hundred times in his heart. During the game, intentional tactical fouls are normal, but when you commit a foul, you are a ball player, so you must protect yourself. , as well as the opponent's consciousness.

Just dragging people down from the air, to put it harshly, just to hurt them.

And Kidd, this guy has too many ideas.

Chen Yu recalled the video of him falling.

Is it because I didn’t see it clearly? It felt like it was a normal fall, and I didn’t see any unnecessary movements, such as twisting or something. How could it be such a coincidence that I fell into the intervertebral disc?

That's right, with that sweep just now, Chen Yu saw bruised back muscles.

This is normal. After all, he was thrown down. With the muscle strength of these guys, it would be fine if he rested for two days.

However, the real problem was that the intervertebral disc between Kidd's fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae had magically bulged!
Chen Yu knew that acute trauma, such as a fall, had a very small chance of causing the intervertebral disc to bulge or even herniate.

But that probability may only be in the single digits per thousand.

So Kidd can cause problems even if he falls, it can only be said that he is too carried away.

Chen Yu folded his arms involuntarily and stared at Kidd, speculating on the cause of his injury.

Lumbar four and five are the places where the lumbar spine bears the greatest pressure and is the heaviest, and it is also the place where injuries are most likely to occur.

Theoretically, the probability of disc disease occurring here is also greatest.

At the same time, the biggest cause of intervertebral disc symptoms is physiological degeneration. When did this start? After the age of 20, the annulus fibrosus changes in shape, becomes thicker, and reduces elasticity.

The peak period for disc herniation is between 30 and 40 years old.

For ordinary people, if they go for a photo shoot at this age, they will normally have a little bulge.

This is the reason why Chen Yu asked Kidd his age.

At 28 years old, he is actually not too young.

Not to mention that he is a professional athlete, and his daily training volume is far greater than that of ordinary people, which puts greater pressure on the lumbar spine and is more likely to cause symptoms.

Chen Yu speculated that, first of all, there must be some problems with Kidd's intervertebral disc.

Chen Yu had looked at him with his all-seeing eyes before and also scanned the intervertebral discs, but he only looked at whether the nucleus pulposus had protruded and could not see whether the annulus fibrosus had changed at all.

Then, when he fell, Kidd's back muscles may have tightened instantly. When his body hit the floor, his waist suddenly shrank, exerting a huge impact on the lumbar spine, which caused the bulge.

Or, it just fell directly to this position, or it was twisted.

But now it is meaningless to find out how he was injured. Fortunately, he only bulged and did not compress the surrounding nerves and blood vessels.

This is why he moved normally and only felt dull swelling and pain.

"Jason, please don't fight this time. I will arrange for you to go to the hospital to take a X-ray and check it out later," Chen Yu said.

Kidd's face changed drastically and he quickly said: "Chen, do you still want to film? I feel very good."

He wanted to say more, but Chen Yu stopped him by saying he wanted to be on the safe side.

Nelson sighed and said, "I'll go talk to Scott."

He could only pray now that the injury would not be too serious.

Chen Yu didn't hesitate, took out his mobile phone and dialed a number: "Jamie, this is Chen Yu. I'm in New York now. Are you on duty today? If it's convenient, can you arrange for one of my players to do a checkup. "

"Okay, okay, we'll be there in a moment."

Jamie King is the physician that Chen Yu came to New York to prepare for an interview this time.

Soon, Scales came after hearing the news.

With a solemn expression, he eagerly asked Kidd what was wrong.

"We'll know after the inspection." Chen Yu didn't explain much.

Skiles sighed, asked no more questions, and arranged for an accompanying staff member to accompany Chen Yu to the hospital.

New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Chen Yu stood in the corridor, waiting for the results of the film and thinking about the next treatment.

In fact, if a bulging intervertebral disc does not press on blood vessels or nerves, it does not require treatment. Rehabilitation, observation, and conservative treatment are the main options.

And it’s not easy to deal with either.

In theory, as long as there are no problems, you can ignore it.

However, it has hidden dangers.

It's like a car tire. It used to be running well, but then it got hit and bulged. Then you don't know when the tire will explode.

Once it explodes and the nucleus pulposus protrudes and compresses the nerves, it will be really troublesome.

Based on the current medical level, if a herniation occurs and compresses nerves, minimally invasive surgery is the main method to remove the herniated nucleus pulposus and reduce the pressure on the intervertebral disc.

If that doesn't work, and it reaches the point of prolapse, then the intervertebral disc will be removed and the spine will be re-fixed.

Just as he was thinking about it, Jamie arrived.

He was wearing a white coat and crisp suit trousers, with soft blond hair combed smoothly, a little freckles on his face, and a pair of light blue eyes.

In terms of age, he is 4 years older than Chen Yu.

At his age, he was able to sneak into NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and he was also a top academic figure.

"Chen." Jamie stretched out his hand.

Chen Yu felt the power coming from his hands, but his eyes fell on his left knee: "Jamie, is there something wrong with your left knee?" There was no problem. At this look, Chen Yu was surprised It was discovered that this guy had actually removed the meniscus on the inside of his left knee.

"Hey, how did you know?" Jamie looked surprised and said in disbelief: "Did you tell it from my gait? It's impossible. I feel like I can walk normally."

I knew that Chen Yu was an orthopedic surgeon, but now, just by looking at his gait, I could tell that there was something wrong with his knees, so he was probably a bit crazy.

Chen Yu nodded and asked him what was going on.

Jamie said: "It's nothing. When I was playing baseball in middle school, I was injured and had to remove half of my meniscus.

"Then you've recovered well." The problem with his gait was very small. If he didn't have an all-seeing eye, Chen Yu wouldn't have thought about the problem.

Before Kidd came out, the two sat down and chatted.

"Speaking of which, I almost chose orthopedics back then, because when I was injured, I once had the idea of ​​curing myself. It was also for this reason that I chose to study medicine. But you also know, I I can't stand on my legs for a long time, so I had no choice but to choose internal medicine and then develop into scientific research." Jamie patted his left leg.

Although there is nothing wrong with his normal life, he always feels like something is missing, and he loves sports. Because of this, he has lost many hobbies.

Chen Yu nodded, and then said: "Don't worry, I promised you that your research and development funds will not be short of yours."

Surgery depends on craftsmanship, while internal medicine generally engages in scientific research.

As for Jamie, he is a top student, but he is not top-notch.

The most important thing is that he is too young, and there are a lot of veterans in front of him in medical research.

If he stayed at Presbyterian Hospital, he wouldn't be able to get involved in any independent medical projects, so Jamie came up with the idea of ​​leaving, such as going to a medical institute or an ambitious private clinic that would provide him with scientific research funds.

What Chen Yu promised was to give him part of the funds to carry out research projects.

Jamie nodded with a smile: "It would be great if that's the case, but you also have to think clearly. The subject of my research is human metabolism, and it is difficult to produce any valuable results."

Chen Yuxin said that if you hadn’t studied this, I wouldn’t have come to you.

Exercise and metabolism are inseparable.

We talked about something else.

For example, it would be even better if he was a bachelor and could go to Phoenix without any worries.

While we were chatting, Kidd's examination was completed.

Jamie took Chen Yu to the MRI room and asked, "By the way, what problem do you suspect he has? I heard you said that he fell and suffered a muscle contusion in his back?"

Chen Yu shook his head and did not explain.

Soon, the two saw the test results.

"The structure of the lumbar spine is good, but the intervertebral disc between waist four and five has bulged." The doctor in charge of the examination pointed at the computer screen.

Jamie was stunned and said in disbelief: "Falled? Then he must be too unlucky."

After saying that, he took another deep look at Chen Yu.

This kind of injury should not have any symptoms, but Chen Yu was able to immediately arrange for Kidd to come over for examination. This experience is too rich. It is no wonder that Chen Yu has been so popular in the medical world recently.

Leaning over and observing the film carefully, Jamie said: "Chen, what are you going to do, conservative treatment?"

Chen Yu nodded and had no other choice.

If it doesn't protrude, then surgery can't be done.

No medicine can shrink the bulging annulus fibrosus.

My own acupuncture had no effect.

What you can do is to hang the horizontal bar more often to strengthen the back muscles and improve stability.

"I'll go talk to him."

Chen Yu sighed and went to find Kidd.

Just in time to meet Nelson and Scales who dared to come in a hurry.

When he heard that it was a bulging intervertebral disc, Nelson was dumbfounded and broke into a cold sweat.

Before the game, Kidd was in good condition. He was planning to let Kidd play. If Chen Yu hadn't arrived and discovered the problem, then he would have gone into the game without doing anything to deal with it. I really don't know what more serious problems would have arisen.

Skiles frowned: "Can I still play basketball in the future?"

Bird retired early at the age of 35. His career was plagued by back injuries, including lumbar herniation.

Chen Yu said: "Of course there is no problem in playing. He is just bulging now. The bulging position does not compress the nerves and does not affect his playing. However, we must pay attention to protection to prevent it from getting worse."

Kidd's current situation is far from being unable to play.

Olajuwon's bulge is much more serious than his, and he still wants to pursue the championship.

Skiles breathed a sigh of relief. Hardaway has been reimbursed for the season. If Kidd is reimbursed again, then the Suns should take a break as soon as possible this season.

When he came to the clinic and heard the diagnosis results, Kidd was immediately stunned.

"In other words, because I fell, and then my disc was bulged? Falk, Bruce, this bastard, I want to kill him." Kidd swore directly.

After scolding, Kidd said angrily: "Chen, you are the head of the league's player health management department. Don't you care about this kind of thing?"

Chen Yu was stunned. He really didn't expect this.

Indeed, this kind of intentional harm to players, even if it comes not from the team but from the opponent, is within the control of our own department.

The key is also hard to define.

For example, this time, Bowen said that I pulled him, that is, I was rushing to foul him, but I didn't expect that I didn't control my strength well.

Moreover, Chen Yu remembered that there were quite a lot of such behaviors of deliberately crippling people and fighting.

The Bad Boys of the Pistons era.

And Tomjanovich, his brains were knocked out.

Skiles immediately said: "Yes, this matter cannot be forgotten. I will tell Brian soon and ask him to appeal to the league and add Bowen to the flagrant foul and suspend him."

Chen Yu sighed.

Fines and suspensions are of no use, everyone is already injured.

It's my own system.

Chen Yu was thinking that using the system's therapeutic effects might have some unparalleled effects.

If it really worked, that would be awesome.

Because in the NBA, there are actually many players who suffer from lumbar protrusion.

And many players, especially inside players, have plummeted in condition because of lumbar protrusion.

This thing is a terminal disease and there is no way to cure it.

The next day, the team returned to Phoenix as normal, and Chen Yu went to the NBA headquarters to deal with matters in the player management department.

There aren't many things going on, maybe it's not the end of the season yet, and injuries haven't occurred in a concentrated way.

After doing all this, Chen Yu hurried back to Phoenix.

Kidd's injury requires him to find a way to achieve high-level healing effects.

In terms of medical treatment, it can be cured through difficult surgery, but in terms of recovery, Chen Yu really couldn't figure out how to do it.

After returning to Phoenix, the first thing to do was to go to the hospital to check on Ronaldo's condition.

As soon as he parked the car and got out of the car, Chen Yu heard someone calling him.

Turning his head, he found that the door of a commercial vehicle not far away opened, and a figure waved to him.

It was Carvajal. He got out of the car first. Behind him, Redondo was slowly moving down the car on crutches.

"He agreed to the operation." Kawajal ran forward panting and said eagerly.

Chen Yu glanced at Redondo, who was still on crutches after getting out of the car, and snorted: "Don't let him stand, come in."

After all, this guy still couldn't bear to part with that green field.

(End of this chapter)