Sports Medicine Master System-Chapter 135 - 92: Vegetative Person

"Chen, let’s do it one more time. It’s too complicated; we haven’t learned it yet."

An old cowboy in the crowd shouted.

The others all nodded in agreement.

At some point, fifty or sixty people had already gathered, and more were still coming over.

Even the chubby supervisor took advantage of a break to secretly ask Chen Yu if practicing this Five Animals Qigong was really effective.

He didn’t specify in what way it was effective.

But Chen Yu knew exactly what he meant, and he nodded.

’It wasn’t exactly false advertising. According to the system’s data, the Five Animals Qigong did improve one’s physical condition and strengthen their abilities.’

’That made sense. When you’re healthy, your abilities naturally get stronger.’

’The key is, I’m a real orthopedic surgeon. I should be attracting people with my medical skills, not these little tricks.’

’But the experience points are rolling in.’

Chen Yu silently glanced at the system. The experience bar had already filled up once.

As expected, he hadn’t received a treatment effect.

’But the growth rate really is fast.’

’And it’s easy.’

"Then let’s continue." Chen Yu took a deep breath and started the exercises again.

’I’ll just treat it as a workout for myself.’

’A man over thirty needs to take care of himself anyway.’

In a short while, he had gained several dozen more experience points.

From the crowd below, shouts for "one more time" rang out again.

Chen Yu glanced down. Nearly a hundred people had gathered below.

Among them were many old ladies.

’Chen Yu had no idea what kind of abilities they wanted to enhance, but as long as he was getting experience, it was all good.’

Another round of experience quickly filled up.

Chen Yu’s eyes lit up. A treatment effect had arrived.

Bronze Level!

’At this stage, these treatment effects are nowhere near enough.’

It was hard enough to get one, and now Chen Yu was torn about whether to use it on Hardaway or Ronaldo.

’They both need it.’

’No matter how many of these I get, it’s never enough.’

"One more time." Without waiting for the people below to ask, Chen Yu continued.

After four consecutive repetitions, many people still couldn’t get the movements right.

But they were moving, after all, and the effects of the exercise were already showing.

"I feel much more comfortable," someone said.

"Me too. I even broke a sweat, and my body’s warmed up. Looks like this stuff really works."

The old cowboy spoke up again, "Chen, how many times do we have to practice this ’five animals’ exercise for it to work and help me regain my former vigor?"

An old man not far away chuckled mockingly, "Aaron, for a guy like you, even practicing it ten thousand times would be useless. Jeanie will never like you."

The old cowboy was so angry he nearly punched him.

The supervisor stepped forward to stop them, and Chen Yu also explained, "It depends on your own stamina. If you have enough, you can practice it a few more times. Over time, you’ll see results."

As he spoke, he led the crowd through another repetition.

Another round of experience points came in.

’Unfortunately, there was no treatment effect this time either.’

’The experience comes quickly, that’s for sure, but the quality is poor, so the chance of getting a treatment effect is low.’

’Chen Yu still hadn’t found a way to farm High-Level treatment effects.’

Just as he was thinking about this, he suddenly received a system notification in his mind.

[Congratulations. After repeated practice, you have obtained the Basic Level Five Animals Qigong skill bonus. The effectiveness of your own workouts is increased by 5%.]

’Chen Yu was in disbelief. He never imagined that he could get a skill bonus from practicing Five Animals Qigong. Could it be that the system also recognized Five Animals Qigong as a form of treatment?’

’But why was this bonus effect applied to himself?’

’In other words, it had no effect on the others he was leading in the practice.’

’But on second thought, it wasn’t bad.’

’I can’t just think about treating patients and neglect my own body. Only with a healthy body will I have the strength to drill through bone.’

As he demonstrated again, Chen Yu tried to carefully feel the effects of the skill bonus.

’To be honest, I really can’t feel much of a difference.’

’Probably because the bonus is too low.’

’But it’s better than nothing. Since it’s from the system and it says there’s a bonus, then it must be having some effect.’

Today, he’d farmed more than enough experience.

Chen Yu wanted to keep farming, but this group of old men and women couldn’t take it anymore.

Some of the movements in the Five Animals Qigong were quite large and relatively strenuous.

’Unfortunately, after all these rounds of experience, he had only gotten one treatment effect.’

Chen Yu could only hope that he would get a few more surgical patients in a while to farm some medical experience.

’Redondo was still waiting for surgery, after all.’

Perhaps because of the Five Animals Qigong, Chen Yu had already won the trust of the old folks. A long line had spontaneously formed in front of his free clinic table.

Their ailments were of every kind imaginable.

Almost every one of them had various underlying conditions, which Chen Yu couldn’t treat. He still focused mainly on orthopedic diseases.

One look told Chen Yu he had definitely come to the right place.

All sorts of arthritis, bone spurs, herniated discs, and spinal deformities.

"Aaron, have you considered surgery?" Chen Yu pointed at the old cowboy’s lower back.

Frequent horse riding puts a lot of pressure on the lumbar spine.

The old man was 71. His spine had multi-level disc herniation. The most troublesome part was a significant disc extrusion between L3 and L4, which was already compressing a nerve root. This was the reason for the constant numbness and pain in his legs.

’He was in this state and still thinking about dating and enhancing his ’abilities’. Truly never too old to keep trying.’

Aaron glanced at Chen Yu. "My private doctor told me I’d need open surgery to remove the disc and then fuse the vertebrae together. It’s a major operation, and he’s afraid I’ll die on the table."

The old man wasn’t wrong. At his age, the risks of such a major surgery under general anesthesia were very high.

’Even Chen Yu himself couldn’t guarantee he would make it off the operating table alive.’

"What about minimally invasive surgery, then? It could at least alleviate your symptoms," Chen Yu said. "A minimally invasive procedure has a small incision and only requires local anesthesia."