{"id":90234,"date":"2026-10-04T20:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90234"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:58:04","slug":"tcm-or-western-medicine-for-sports-injuries-why-this-hong-kong-athlete-chose-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90234","title":{"rendered":"TCM or Western medicine for sports injuries? Why this Hong Kong athlete chose both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/03\/12f9fb04-9d4a-4aa2-b8cc-8d20234f711c_39a04956.jpg?itok=Yigo_d00&amp;v=1791029100\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">In the third instalment of a four-part<\/em> <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Health Matters<\/em><\/span> <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">series on traditional Chinese medicine, Aidyn Fitzpatrick speaks to a Hong Kong fencer studying TCM and local practitioners to see how athletes, both elite and amateur, are using TCM alongside Western medicine for smarter injury recovery.<\/em><\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Fresh off helping Hong Kong clinch a bronze medal in the women\u2019s foil team event at <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">the 2026 Asian Games in Japan<\/span>, fencer Janelle Leung Ya-lei \u2013 ranked 53rd in the world \u2013 knows the fine margin between peak performance and high-stakes injury.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In April 2026, she sustained a partial tear to her ankle ligament, just seven days before the Cairo Foil World Cup.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Away from Hong Kong and with limited access to her regular medical team, Leung looked to her Chinese medicine knowledge from her ongoing studies at Baptist University, where she was admitted to the Bachelor of Chinese Medicine and Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science programme in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3369447\/tcm-or-western-medicine-sports-injuries-why-hong-kong-athlete-chose-both?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the third instalment of a four-part Health Matters series on traditional Chinese medicine, Aidyn Fitzpatrick speaks to a Hong Kong fencer studying TCM and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13171,13652,3569,6394,5231,2753,89,7680,98],"class_list":["post-90234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-athlete","tag-chose","tag-hong","tag-injuries","tag-kong","tag-medicine","tag-sports","tag-tcm","tag-western","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}