Sports Injury Prevention Course Ideology and Politics

The ideological and political integration of sports injury prevention courses is essentially the same frequency of "technical teaching" and "human education" - it is not about forcing values and slogans into first aid knowledge points, but in every action demonstration, scene practice, and case analysis, responsibility for self, kindness to others, and reverence for the profession are turned into specific behaviors that students can perceive and practice, and ultimately achieve the growth from "being able to prevent injuries and rescuing injuries" to "dare to take responsibility and be willing to be altruistic."

To be honest, when I first took this course, I felt that ideological and political education was an "extra task." The class was originally tight, and we had to teach muscle stretching, acute injury treatment, and common sports injury diagnosis. It would be great if the students could understand the tightness of the bandage. How can I have time to talk about big ideas? It wasn't until I encountered that incident when I was taking freshmen to practice training the year before last that I completely changed my mind. At that time, there was a freshman on the school's men's basketball team who was top-notch in physical fitness. He was crazy. Every time he warmed up, he would shake his arms casually to deal with things. I reminded him twice but didn't take it seriously. Until a senior on the same team ruptured his Achilles tendon because he jumped for a rebound without fully warming up. I got the MRI before the surgery. Let’s go ahead and tell you the anatomy of the Achilles tendon. Let me settle the accounts with you: In order to compete in next month’s provincial competition, this senior got up at 6 o’clock every day for two consecutive months to practice shooting. He saved 3 minutes of warm-up and had to lie down for at least 6 months. He was almost affected by the defense of his graduation certificate. Do you think this transaction is worth it?

Later, I talked about this case with other teachers, and there were two completely different ideas: one group felt that at this time, we should directly point out the principle of "obeying the rules is to be responsible for ourselves", which belongs to the category of explicit ideological and political education, and the key points should be clearly stated for students; In class, I cover both ends of the spectrum. I neither forcefully teach you the truth nor hide it completely. After everyone has finished the discussion, I add, "We often say that warming up saves 3 minutes, and that you need to lie down for 3 months to recover. You are lazy about your body, and in the end you have to carry it all by yourself." On the contrary, the students can listen to it.

Some colleagues also complained to me, saying that sports injury prevention is a purely practical course, and engaging in ideological and political education is purely superfluous. It was not until I showed them the Moments posted by previous students that they had nothing to say. When I was practicing ankle bandaging last time, a boy in the group smiled playfully and the bandage he put on his teammates fell off after two steps. I didn't criticize him and directly pulled him into the simulation scene: Suppose your teammate fell during the mountain cross-country race and the ankle joint was suspected to be fractured. Later, when this student returned to his hometown during the summer vacation, he made a "Knee Joint Protection Manual for the Elderly" and distributed it to the grandparents who danced in the community. He also made a video to teach everyone how to stretch correctly to avoid injuring their knees during square dancing. He said that his first reaction after the class was that his grandma had bad knees and always hurt, so he wanted to use it on his family members first. Look, how can there be any hard-edged ideological politics? The techniques you teach can make students think of protecting the people around them first. This is more effective than any slogan.

Some people said before that the sports injury class should not be related to the feelings of family and country. It would be too embarrassing to force it on. I took a special class on injury prevention in ice and snow sports last year and showed two videos. One was a clip of the national team doctor treating Gu Ailing's shoulder injury during the Beijing Winter Olympics. The other was an interview with the team doctor of the short track speed skating team. He said that during overseas competitions, he worked continuously for more than 20 days and only slept 3 hours a day, for fear that the team members would be injured and affect the competition. I didn't say "you must be patriotic", but asked everyone a question: These teams have been practicing injury prevention for more than ten years, just to enable our athletes to stand on the podium and raise the national flag in good health. So after you have learned this course, can you teach the juniors in the school how to play ball without spraining their feet, and teach the elderly in the community how to prevent falls? No one felt embarrassed. After class, several students came over and asked how to sign up for community sports protection volunteer activities.

In fact, after all, how can there be so many high-level definitions? To put it simply, when it comes to the ideological and political education of sports injury prevention courses, don’t just focus on the knowledge points and test points during class, but think more about what you teach. In addition to helping students get high scores, it can also make them become more reliable people - knowing that they are responsible for their own bodies, knowing that they should not be perfunctory when treating injuries of others, and knowing that they should use the skills they have learned in a useful way. This is enough.