Medical care and athletes retiring at WT tournaments

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  1. RC47

    RC47 Regular Member

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    Terrible injury for Pearly Tan at the Japan Open 2022 but the blame is spread out to all parties involved.

    BWF - provide an actual doctor to assess injuries. All Pearly got was a volunteer to come out and apply cold spray, even Gill and Steen were commenting that a random stranger off the street can do this. Embarrassing.

    BWF/Umpire/Coaches - provide authority for umpires and coaches to stop a match if they see fit.

    Coaches - Pearly's coaches should've been more forceful and convince her to stop playing. The coaches seemed to be giving tactical advice during the 3rd game interval when she could barely walk...

    Pearly - people may disagree but Pearly is also to blame for this outcome. She knew right away this was a serious injury and still decided to keep playing. Some may say she's young, doesn't know better, wants to play for her country, etc. but it is part of your job as an athlete to monitor your physical condition. If you're training and something doesn't feel right you tell your coach and they'll (hopefully) modify the practice to suit your needs.

    Similar situation in this same tournament was Ng Ka Long. He retired in world champs with a thigh injury and still decided to play in Japan the next week, ends up retiring 1st game against HS Prannoy. Players needs to have the awareness to listen to their body and stop playing when it's giving them signs.

    Regardless, wishing Pearly a speedy recovery and hope they'll be ready in time for the Paris 2024 qualification period next year.
     
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    The international Olympic committee run a sports medicine course. It addresses this very problem. Players, coaches and parents don’t when to stop when injured. It’s the role of the doctor to act as the players advocate to stop further and more severe injuries.

    It’s not just a case of the athlete wanting to go on and fighting through. There’s a long term implication for recovery and future tournaments.

    Better hope it’s not a meniscus or ACL injury otherwise that Olympic dream might be toasted.

    Didn’t realise a tournament doctor is not mandatory. BWF actually do have a medical advisor so I don’t why these big tournaments do not have a regulation for a doctor to be attendance with some support staff.

    I have always seen a medical doctor at the HK Open for many years. Somewhere around 2005, I actually stood in the role as cover because the original doctor was late. One of the committee running the tournament was extremely worried about lack of medical cover and I volunteered. Why the worry? There was a previous HK Open where a player had a cardiac arrest on court and luckily he was resuscitated.

    In recent years, I have also seen a physiotherapist on the medical bench at the HK Open. HkK Open isn’t even 750 status and yet they pay attention to the medical issues carefully.
     
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    In this case I’m not sure how it should be handled. Please note she only asked for medical aid at the beginning, not sure if it can be diagnosed definitively right there. When she was clearly hobbling later on, could medical personnel (if present) interfere? Could coach call it off? Or only the umpire has the ability to do so…
     
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    Even the coaches approach the bench, the umpire would ask them to get back to their seats. Only the player can make the call during game if he or she cannot resume playing. Or the medical doctor in this case none that go to see if the player is ok to continue or not.
     
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    No idea how it works for other tournaments.
    Ive been attending physio at Denmark open last year, and again this year.
    We will allways have 1 physio or doctor. Ready in the playing area.
    And everyshift (8-16 16-23) will have 2 physios and 1 doctor around.

    Sadly we are kinda not allowed to do anything courtside, unless its an interval. Mainly because of the fear of delayed game. Unless its serius or a player is bleeding.

    AMA btw.
     
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    This puts the judgement call on the umpire who perhaps has little knowledge of medical issues. That’s quite a responsibility. I would go so far as to say BWF also has a responsibility to protect the players from further injury. Each player has made considerable investment in their life to get to play in BWF tournaments.
     

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