Squid Game, Air Play, Ttukchigi...What are the health threats seen in oriental medicine?
Jan 09, 2025
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In particular, this season, not only airplay but also various games from the previous one appear, and related games are attracting attention again. However, the game is fiercely played until the last one is determined, and there are health threats for each game. It was summarized with the help of Hong Soon-sung, director of Jaseng Oriental Medicine Hospital, to see how the situations and games appear in the content actually affect the physical and mental effects.
◇'Airplay', which has become a global game, what about wrist health?
Squid Game Season 2 features a variety of new games such as air play, spinning tops, and hitting gravestones. Among them, gongnori is receiving particularly hot attention. In some SNSs, 'Gonggi Challenge' has spread, leading to challenges regardless of nationality, and some people have made and enjoyed air with 3D printers. However, if you practice too much even though it seems simple, it can put pressure on your wrist, so you need to be careful. In particular, the action of quickly picking up the air scattered on the floor and throwing it up is likely to increase the frequency of wrist rotation, leading to a sprained wrist 'spread'. As a result, if foreigners or younger generations who are not familiar with airplay push ahead with excessive practice to speed up from the beginning, the risk of wrist sprains will increase.
Wrist sprains usually occur when excessive force is applied to the wrist ligaments, accompanied by swelling and pain. If the symptoms are mild, they tend to heal naturally through sufficient rest, but if the pain does not disappear, professional treatment is recommended.
In oriental medicine, acupuncture and acupuncture treatments relieve inflammation and pain and help repair damaged tissues. In particular, herbal acupuncture is a method of injecting herbal medicine ingredients directly into acupuncture, and it is a treatment that quickly relieves inflammation by combining the physical effects of acupuncture and the pharmacological effects of herbal medicine. In fact, according to a self-sustaining oriental hospital paper published in the SCI(E)-level international journal Frontiers in Neurology, herbal acupuncture also reduced inflammation-induced oxidative stress by up to 80%.
◇'Tap-Tap-Tap-Tap-Tap-Tap-Tap-Tap-Tap…If you believe in strength, you'll hurt your elbow
'Ttukchi' is a traditional Korean game that first appeared in season 1 and received a lot of attention. The scene in which the main character in the play plays slap-match in a subway station without people is still being talked about. Above all, it has emerged again as an important game for survival in Season 2 and is attracting worldwide attention.
However, excessive swinging of the arm to force the scab can lead to elbow injury. The slap motion is a movement similar to a tennis smash, because it can cause 'tennis elbow (outer anterior vestibular inflammation)'. Tennis elbow is a disease that causes inflammation or rupture of the outer tendon of the elbow, accompanied by numbness along with stabbing pain when using the elbow.
If you experience tennis elbow, you can expect improvement through oriental medicine treatment. In oriental medicine, external injury and inflammation are treated through chuna therapy, acupuncture, and acupuncture. Chuna therapy is a manual therapy that relaxes damaged muscles and corrects the balance of joints to help restore motor function. In addition, acupuncture treatment on major blood spots such as external 關, 曲池, and 手 is effective in reducing pain by relaxing overstretched muscles and promoting blood circulation.
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Following the Squid Game Season 1, the first game that game participants encounter in Season 2 is 'The Mugunghwa Flower."Notably, a tagger robot equipped with motion detection sensors has also re-emerged, raising the level of immersion among fans of Squid Game.
However, the game, in which sudden starts and stops are repeated, can put pressure on knee joints and ligaments, so caution is needed. In fact, participants were also injured while playing the game in the 「Squid Game: The Challenge" program, which was held for the general public in 2023.
In particular, movements such as sudden stop and sudden rotation are likely to damage major knee ligaments such as the patellar ligament and the anterior and posterior cruciate ligament. The ligament maintains the stability of the knee, but damage or rupture can occur if excessive impact is applied. Such damage can cause knee pain and joint instability, which can interfere with daily life and accelerate degenerative arthritis.
Sufficient stretching is important to prevent knee injuries in advance. Among them, increasing the internal adductor, the largest muscle among the internal adductor muscles of the thighs, can correct the balance between the hip and knee joints to reduce the burden on the knee. 'Internal total muscle stretching' begins with a sitting position first. The method is to put both soles of the feet together and hold them with both hands to straighten the spine. After that, exhale and slowly lower both knees to the floor. Hold that position for about 15 seconds and return to its place by inhaling. You can repeat it three times in total.
◇Extreme situation, stress ↑…If you see it in oriental medicine?
Squid Game participants face extreme situations where they lose their lives if they are eliminated from each game. Even a simple game creates tension and reversal that makes you sweat cold, which puts considerable stress on not only the participants but also the viewers.
Stress is often referred to as the source of all kinds of illnesses. The same is true of oriental medicine. Stress lowers the body's blood circulation, which builds up anger, and various musculoskeletal diseases may occur due to stiff muscles. Furthermore, stress causes an imbalance in 'water 乘火降', an oriental medicine principle that lowers cold energy up and down, causing headaches, tinnitus, indigestion, and hand-foot-and-mouth coldness.
In oriental medicine, if stress persists, it is managed through herbal medicine prescriptions. A representative herbal medicine is 'Uhwang Cheongsimwon'. Studies have shown that the Huangcheng Heart Center not only has the effect of lowering tension and anxiety, but also lowers the secretion of stress hormones. In addition, 'Yukgongsan', which adds the prescription of Yukmi Hwangtang to Gongjyeong, also helps reduce stress. In addition, acupuncture, which helps blood circulation, can further increase the effect of relieving tension.
Hong Soon-sung, director of Jaseng Oriental Medicine Hospital, said, `It is very interesting to see the phenomenon that people all over the world sympathize with and experience Korean games that were enjoyed when they were young.' `I hope the aforementioned health advice will be helpful when actually enjoying the games that appeared in the play.'
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
