Weekly First-aid Topic: Cautions during sports and fitness in spring
From:Beijing Municipal Health Commission
Date:03/24/2023

With the arrival of spring, many people have started exercise and fitness, hoping to wake up the "lazy" body. How could you avoid sports injuries while working out? Here are the golden rules of healthy exercise for your reference.

1. Good warm-up exercise. If you rush to exercise when the body is not fully extended, strain, sprain, and ankle injuries may occur. Knee or waist may get hurt due to excessive movement during exercise. Before high-intensity exercise, you should warm up fully and stretch to let the body adapt to the exercise as soon as possible.

2. Strengthened self-protection. It is important to choose a suitable sports venue, wear sports equipment, and learn about some self-protection actions during sports. When you are about to fall, it is necessary to immediately lower your head, bend your elbows, and group your body, land on the ground with your back, and do rolling movements along the trend, and do not support the ground with your arms straight to avoid fractures. Effective protection minimizes injury.

3. Appropriate selection of exercise. People over the age of 50 are not suitable for strenuous exercise. If the cardiopulmonary function is not good, blindly increasing the amount of exercise will cause excessive heart load. People with lumbar disc herniation are not suitable for sit-ups.

Here are some tips from Beijing 120. Once a sprain occurs during exercise, you should immediately apply cold compress to the injury to prevent excessive swelling of local tissues and reduce pain. Next, you could raise the injured limb to rest. If you apply heat compress instantly after the injury, or massage the wound with wine, Imada Red Flower Analgesic Oil, etc., it could not relieve the pain, but will promote the expansion of blood vessels in the injured soft tissues, accelerating blood flow and increasing exudation, and eventually aggravating local swelling and pain. Sports injuries should not be ignored. If necessary, it is recommended to call the emergency number immediately and seek medical treatment as soon as possible.