Sports medicine starts with the Sun Miracle Doctor

Chapter 97 NASA Doctors

"Liquid nitrogen, are you kidding me?" Nelson exclaimed.

At this time, the two were invited to visit Johnson & Johnson Medical's new materials laboratory in Phoenix. The person who received them was the head of the laboratory, Dr. George Leonard.

He is surprisingly young, probably in his forties, and what's amazing is that he has long black hair.

The shirt under the white coat is pressed and straight, and the cuffs are tied with cufflinks. He looks like a Hollywood male star with outstanding temperament.

After hearing that the two people came here to find a device that could quickly release cold energy, he said that a similar device had already appeared, and it still used liquid nitrogen.

That thing is about two hundred degrees below zero. If the human body comes into contact with it, it will not suffer from frostbite.

That's why Nelson exclaimed.

Chen Yu beside him didn't react much, and even felt like his eyes were brightening: "George, if I remember correctly, using liquid nitrogen to quickly cool down and create low-temperature conditions is used to treat tumors."

It seems that in the 60s, someone in the United States had already discovered that using low temperature can treat tumors.Later, it was discovered that mild hypothermia is beneficial to relieving ischemic brain damage, and some people have been studying it.

But to relieve muscle damage and lactic acid accumulation after exercise, the temperature is not too low.

"It shouldn't be direct physical contact, but contact with volatilized liquid nitrogen, right?" Chen Yu asked again.

Direct contact with liquid nitrogen, not too much, can cause severe frostbite in 2 seconds.

Leonard nodded: "Yes, it's volatilization. Chen, you should know that when the body is in an extremely cold environment, the body's stress protection system is activated, the blood will secrete anti-inflammatory substances, and then the blood will flow back to key organs, which is beneficial to Blocks pain and eliminates inflammation.”

"The equipment I'm talking about was first developed and applied in Japan, but they are mainly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and general pain, and to relieve fatigue after exercise. No one has done this yet."

As he said that, he couldn't help but look at Nelson one more time.

The amount of daily exercise is so great that special equipment is needed to relieve fatigue.

Chen Yu kept nodding and asked if this kind of equipment was expensive.

Brian is very supportive of himself and is willing to provide funds to make the players' training better.

But if it was too expensive, like an MRI machine, which cost several million, then he would have to think carefully about it.

"It's very expensive. It seems to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars." Leonard sneered. He had never studied this thing. He intuitively felt that it was just letting liquid nitrogen evaporate in a sealed cabin. It was too dark to dare to sell it at such an expensive price. .

Chen Yu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the price.

For NBA teams with deep pockets, hundreds of thousands of dollars are nothing.

The main thing is the effect, see if it works.

There was a company producing. Chen Yu wrote down the name of the company and turned to ask other questions.

"Use sensors to monitor body status and finally form quantitative data for analysis, right? This should be possible." After hearing the request, Leonard thought for a moment and nodded.

He feels that with existing technology, it should not be difficult to realize this idea.

"It would be great if we can do it." This is the common thought of Chen Yu and Nielsen.

In today's NBA, trainers still focus on empirical methods.

I have trained more players and gradually accumulated training experience.

The more experience you have, the more powerful the trainer is.

Nielsen is obviously a leader, but he is young and can accept new things, so he came up with the idea of ​​using instruments and equipment to monitor physical conditions, and finally coincided with Chen Yu.

In fact, Chen Yu can be regarded as an empirical method.

With an all-seeing eye, you can know the state of your body just by looking at it. The more you see, the more you gain experience.

But this is just what he knows. Chen Yu hopes to form a training method, that is, to quantify it, and then use it to guide others.

After exchanging some more details, Chen Yu continued: "The last thing is my own clinic. I have conceived a device, roughly with this idea."

Chen Yu tried to describe his thoughts.

It is to support the person's upper body, reduce the pressure on the lower body, and then facilitate the exercise of the lower limbs alone.

“It’s also best to be able to regulate the pressure your upper body exerts on your lower body.”

People like Hardaway have to undergo rehabilitation training in advance after knee surgery.

But just standing up will put a lot of pressure on the knees. Chen Yu was wondering if there is a device that can remove the pressure on the upper body, only exercise the lower body, and then gradually increase the pressure. There is a step-by-step process. recovery process.

Leonard was stunned for a while, and seemed to have thought of something: "Yes, Chen, do you know about anti-gravity treadmills?"

Chen Yu shook his head.

Leonard said: "Actually, you should go to NASA. I know that when they train astronauts, they use a treadmill. It probably uses an inflatable and deflated air bag to support the upper body and reduce the impact of running on the lower body. The impact is almost exactly what you said."

With that said, he turned around and turned on the computer and started searching for news.

"I just saw this news last year."

After a while, he found it.

"This is it." He pointed at the computer screen.

Chen Yu leaned over to take a look.

It is a report on NASA's official website, which introduces the way they train astronauts. It introduces this specially developed running equipment, which supports the body through air bags to reduce accidental injuries during exercise. It also simulates the weightless environment in space as much as possible. Lower the effect of physical exercise.

"It's true." Chen Yu was surprised to find that this thing was almost exactly the same as his idea.

Originally, Chen Yu thought this was his own exclusive idea, and even considered whether to apply for a patent after making it. Unexpectedly, NASA had already developed it first.

That’s easy, just contact NASA and buy it.

Leonard attaches great importance to Chen Yu's visit and the proposed monitoring system.

In other words, Johnson & Johnson takes it seriously.

They originally had a large business, that is, postoperative and post-healing rehabilitation equipment.

Go to the rehabilitation department of the hospital and you will see that there are many rehabilitation equipment produced by Johnson & Johnson.

To this end, they specially sent a scientific research team to track the training of the Suns, understand the needs, and then carry out product design.

Then there's NASA.

NASA initially paid little attention to Chen Yu's contact, saying that this was equipment exclusively for their astronauts and was not intended to be sold to outsiders.

Even Chen Yu has said that he can accept a higher price.Just when Chen Yu was having a headache about this matter, unexpectedly, NASA took the initiative to contact Chen Yu two days later.

Training Course.

In a corner of the training ground, there is a lot of equipment.

Kidd strapped a stretch band on his body and sprinted continuously to do explosive strength training.

He had straps on his limbs with sensors inserted into them.

Next to it, a scientific research team from Johnson & Johnson was behind the instrument, monitoring sensor data.

Chen Yu is also there, but he doesn’t quite understand.

When it comes to computers, Chen Yu only knows how to surf the Internet and send emails.

As for the professional software of the scientific research team, Chen Yu really couldn't understand all kinds of random data.

Nielsen looked at it very seriously. He got together with Mark, the leader of the scientific research team, and pointed out which data was useful and real data from time to time.

These sensors feed back large amounts of data.

For example, if you move your shoulders, data will be generated, but there are only a few truly useful data, which requires professional trainers like Nielsen to distinguish.

While watching, a staff member came over and told Chen Yu that someone from NASA was here.

"Just ask them to come directly."

NASA contacted Chen Yu again the day before yesterday. What is strange is that they said they wanted to send someone over to talk to Chen Yu face to face.

Chen Yu was a little confused. He just bought a treadmill. As for sending a special person over for an interview?

Could it be that this treadmill involves some secret technology?

Not long after, the two were taken to the training ground.

A middle-aged man with short hair and a strong body, accompanied by a young entourage.

The middle-aged man seemed to know who Chen Yu was and walked straight towards Chen Yu.

However, his eyes noticed the pile of equipment on the sidelines and looked at it a few more times.

"Hello, Chen."

He reached out to shake hands with Chen Yu and introduced himself as Thomas Carter, a doctor on the NASA medical team.

The young people around him are his assistants.

"Hello."

Chen Yu was puzzled as to why a doctor came.

However, the doctor who can become the NASA medical team seems to be the person in charge, and should be the top doctor in the United States.

Moreover, Chen Yu felt that this name had a slight impression. Maybe one of the papers he had read before was written by him.

Regarding Chen Yu’s doubts, Thomas Carter explained: “That’s right, our medical team has noticed that you seem to be very good at treating cartilage damage. For example, you cured Hill’s cartilage damage and also treated Hardaway. Through cartilage reconstruction.”

"I came here this time just to see for myself how effective their treatment is, because we happen to have a patient with a fractured knee cartilage, which is quite difficult. If your treatment is effective, we would like to seek your help. ."

Chen Yu suddenly realized that no wonder he came here specially to take care of patients.

Is that an astronaut?
If you are an astronaut, it is normal to attach such importance to it.

"What about the treadmill?" Seeing a doctor is nothing. Chen Yu has no reason not to accept the patients who come to his door. But for the treadmill, for the sake of diagnosing your astronauts, he can't stop selling it.

Carter smiled and said: "Don't worry, it has been checked in with us. It is at the airport. You can pick it up at any time."

Chen Yu nodded secretly, he was fastidious and knew how to ask for help with nothing.

After Carter finished speaking, he looked at the pile of equipment next to him and asked curiously what they were doing.

The person came with sincerity, and Chen Yu did not hide anything and introduced the situation.

"It turns out that similar technology is also used by NASA." Carter understood. In order to train astronauts, NASA also uses various sensors to monitor the physical status of astronauts.

I just never thought about combining it with daily training.

He looked at it with interest, and then asked: "It should cost a lot of money to develop this system."

Designing and producing special sensors, plus developing a software system to form analysis software, is not cheap at all.

He knew that NBA teams were not short of money, but this was the first time he had seen it done like this.

"It's okay." Chen Yu glanced at Mark. Since he was cooperating with Johnson & Johnson in research and development, the sun was symbolically providing some money.

This provides them with research data, which is nice without asking them for money.

The more Carter watched, the more interested he became.

The Sun is definitely the first to combine training with science and technology to this extent.

While watching, two people came from a distance.

The man in front, in a suit and leather shoes, with his hair sticking smoothly to his head, and an oriental face, came forward, subconsciously bowed slightly, and said cautiously: "Dr. Chen, the equipment has been debugged. If it is convenient, you can You can go and have a look.”

This man's name is Nojima Yushi, a salesman from a Japanese manufacturer of ultra-low temperature treatment equipment. This time he came here to bring technicians to debug the equipment.

"can."

Chen Yu nodded. After graduating with a medical degree, you will get a doctorate, so there is no problem for this guy to call himself a doctor.

When he heard it was equipment, Carter also jumped in and asked what kind of equipment it was.

"It is an ultra-low temperature cold therapy device."

Chen Yu introduced it and invited Carter to go and have a look.

In the physiotherapy room, an area has been specially cleared to place this huge equipment that looks like a dormant chamber in a science fiction movie.

Carter only glanced at it and could no longer look away.

I don’t know exactly what this thing does, but just by its appearance, it looks very classy.

(End of this chapter)