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Tokyo Paralympic | Physiotherapist volunteers for six consecutive times

2021-09-05T04:09:40.063Z


The Tokyo Paralympic Games ended today (5th). The Hong Kong team performed well this year, temporarily achieving 1 silver and 3 bronze results. In fact, every medal is not easy to win. "One minute on stage, ten years off stage." Athletes often use electric light and flint.


The Tokyo Paralympic Games ended today (5th). The Hong Kong team performed well this year and temporarily achieved 1 silver and 3 bronze results.

In fact, every medal is not easy to win. "One minute on stage, ten years off stage." Athletes often decide who wins and loses between the electric light and the stone.

How to keep athletes in the best form to compete is the task of the "unsung heroes" behind them.


Zhong Huiwen, a registered physiotherapist, is one of the unsung heroes of the Paralympic Port team.

Since the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games, he has played with the Hong Kong team for six consecutive games. He is mainly responsible for the wheelchair fencing team. "It is our task to make the athletes build to the last moment." However, in fact, physics. The therapist only assists the athletes with his enthusiasm. Zhong Huiwen will introduce the work of the physiotherapist and the secrets of the Paralympics to readers below.


In 1996, he participated in the Paralympics for the first time with the group to help win four gold medals.

During the Olympics, athletes have to endure high-intensity competitions for several days. The mental and physical exhaustion is even harder to imagine.

The job of a physical therapist is to help them maintain their best condition to participate in the competition.

In the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, the Hong Kong team won four gold medals in wheelchair fencing.

At that time, he served as a physiotherapist for Zhong Huiwen for the first time in the group. He proudly said, "This time we are so happy, because when the players say that we are playing against the second team, the difference lies in playing one more player, then playing multiple physiotherapists. !"

Zhong Huiwen is a veteran of the wheelchair fencing Hong Kong team. He has been a physiotherapist with the team for six consecutive terms since 1996. He has been absent for the Tokyo Olympics until the Tokyo Olympics.

Perhaps the public would think that the physiotherapist in the group can get a good salary if invited by the sports association.

But Zhong Huiwen frankly said that they are only volunteers and do their part for the disabled athletes, and they need to take about 30 days of leave each year to play with the team.

"We were all happy. At the beginning, we went out with the wheelchair fencing team. We didn't have any medals. Basically, the weak team was weak. Then we slowly checked the cards."

In fact, in addition to the coach's guidance and their own efforts, the work of the physical therapist is also essential for the disabled athletes before the competition.

Zhong Huiwen revealed that the job of a physical therapist as a nurse is to deal with athletes’ new injuries and old problems, such as massage to relieve muscle soreness and clean wounds.

At the same time, due to the restrictions on the number of teams in the Paralympic Games, they need to take care of athletes' daily life, including pushing wheelchairs, bathing, etc., so some coaches hold professional qualifications as physiotherapists.

"It's so great! It's not top! The stage is on the stage, the sun competes with him, and when the night comes back, I have to help him shower, and be an unsung hero!"

Sleep for 4 hours a day during the disability meeting

Zhong Huiwen recalled that during the two-week Paralympic Games, due to lack of manpower, he only slept for 4 hours a day. The challenge is not to deal with the athlete's injury, but how to make the athlete continue to play when they are injured or the injury recurs.

"It seems that there used to be wheelchair fencing players who didn't make it to the finals. It's really important that the muscle strain is so important. How can I help him get it? I can't help but continue to fight."

Looking back on the Paralympic experience in the past: I used to earn the most

However, physiotherapists work for free, sacrifice personal sleep quality, and need to spend time to leave Hong Kong to accompany the competition. What has driven Zhong Huiwen to persist for many years?

He confessed that he originally thought of helping disabled athletes, but later discovered that he had benefited a lot from them.

He took the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games as an example. At the 1500m T13 track and field competition, the Algerian athlete (Abdellatif Baka) broke the world record with 3 minutes and 48.29 seconds, which was faster than the recent Rio Olympic men's 1500m champion.

"That is, if you are a Paralympic friend, you see, you don't want to see how much you can disable, on the contrary, you see how much you can do. At the beginning, I thought I was a helper, but I knew that it was me who made the most money."

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No one knows the sadness behind the disabled athletes

Speaking of Su Huawei, the "Wonder Kid" who has recently received attention from movies, Zhong Huiwen bluntly said that because Su suffers from a hearing loss, he is inferior to the athletes of the same T36 level, especially in the starting performance.

"But Su Huawei is so strong in sprinting, watching him running and becoming a leopard, it means that he has a lot of power to catch up with Li." However, he revealed that in the latter part of his career as an athlete, Su had injured his thigh and other parts. .

At the same time, Su suffers from the spasm caused by cerebral palsy, the muscles are tight for a long time, and it is difficult to run symmetrically. Therefore, the tendons and waist bone also suffer from pain.

"So if you tell the truth, everyone knows that they have to endure so hard."

Having personally accompanied the athletes in the game, Zhong Huiwen believes that in addition to competing skills, the final few seconds of each game are a struggle between willpower and physical strength.

Therefore, he expressed emotion that even if there is no time to help athletes in the Paralympic Games this year, he hopes to make more people aware of the Paralympic Games through interviews and other methods.

He explained that in addition to the help of physical therapists, the attention of the public can give athletes greater confidence.

"That's why we are all happy. It is our task to enable athletes to build to the last moment."

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Source: hk1

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