Investigation And Analysis Of Knee Joint Pain In Taijiquan Practitioners In

The traditional Chinese shadow boxing rooted in Chinese, it isdeeply rooted in the fertile soil of the Chinese nation. The traditional Chineseshadow boxing belongs to the world. The traditional Chinese shadow boxing hasbeen universally admired by the people all over the world. In order to understand thecurrent situation of people in downtown of Chengdu who practice traditionalChinese shadow-boxing causing knee-joint pain clearly, and to find a better way tosolve the problem according to the current situation and motion characteristics, thispaper looked into the people in downtown of Chengdu who often participate in thetraditional Chinese shadow boxing. By adopting the methods of literature review,interview method, logic analysis, questionnaire survey, mathematical statistics andcomparative analysis, and according to the function of fitness, this paper statisticallyanalyzes the current situation of people who practice traditional Chineseshadow-boxing causing knee-joint pain. It aimed to explore the bettercountermeasure to solve the problem and to provide the better methods and thecorresponding theoretical support for the middle aged people and the old, it aimed togive the effective prevention measures as well.Through the field survey of five downtowns, facts are follows: the womenpractitioners are more than men practitioners in the284valid questionnaires. Thepractitioners of the traditional Chinese shadow boxing are mainly the middle agedand the old people who has already retired, the practitioners over60years oldaccount for71.46%; more than79%people we investigated do some warm-upexercise and auxiliary practice, the warm-up exercise is mainly stretch ligament,there are58.9%practitioners practice the traditional Chinese shadow boxing morethan7times every week. The practice courts are mainly cement or marble ground.63.02%practitioners take more than2hours every time. The vast majority ofpractitioners we investigated practice the traditional Chinese shadow boxing for thepurpose of health care, and the main practice style are shadowboxing tricks.The posture of most practitioners we investigated is relatively low, especiallythe beginners,83.80%of the practitioners think that the knee-joint pain is relatedwith the low practice posture,69.72%of the practitioners think that the knee-jointpain is related with the practice time. Surveys show that the knee-joint pain has relations with the age of the practitioners, because the knee joint is the easiest jointfor the degenerative osteoarthritis, primary degenerative osteoarthritis is common inold people, more women than men., especially the elderly in obese women. So theoccurrence of knee-joint pain and the primary degenerative osteoarthritis has greatrelationship. The learning channel and the practice way plays very big role onwhether it cause knee-joint pain or not.In the survey,58.01%of the people learn the traditional Chinese shadowboxing by themselves by following the CD video and the books, or the amateurorganization and the teammates, they don’t get professional learning at all, thenumber of people who learn with professional teacher is very small.There are216people appear knee-joint pain phenomenon in the284validrespondents, accounting for76.05%, and there are only68people who has neverappear the knee-joint pain phenomenon, and23people suffered the knee-joint painall the time in this216people, there are many people suffer the knee-joint pain inthe beginning of the learning, some people have damaged knee originally, so theknee-joint pain occur when they do warn-up every time, the number of people whoappear the knee-joint pain after the long time practice is the most, they are139people in this216,accounting for64.35%. There may be knee-joint pain in aparticular action or squat. In the presence of knee-joint pain, the outside of the kneejoint has the highest probability, a total of123people, accounting for the totalnumber of56.94%, most practitioners suffer from aching knee, some will be sufferfrom stiff knee-joint, locked knees, the knee-joint pain occur when they squat andappear the knee-joint swelling etc…...