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August 19, 2024, marks the seventh Chinese Physicians' Day. The Healthy China Initiative Office, in collaboration with Move Free, offered a significant training event on joint health to doctors in the Greater Bay Area. This event aims to comprehensively enhance doctors' understanding of osteoarthritis and fortify the joint health and well-being of residents in the Greater Bay Area.

This training session was led by Professor Zhu Yanyan, Chief Physician of General Practice at the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital. It provided representative doctors from Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao with comprehensive training on the pathogenesis, diagnostic methods, treatment strategies, and home rehabilitation care for osteoarthritis. By combining theoretical explanation, case analysis, and clinical practice operations, it provided doctors with a comprehensive and systematic knowledge system and created a good atmosphere for academic exchange.

Figure 1: Zhu Yanyan, Chief Physician of General Practice at the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital

Figure 2: Training site for doctors from Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao

This training session places greater emphasis on enhancing doctors' communication and education skills with patients. It also provides an academic exchange platform for doctors from Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, and promotes the improvement of medical standards in the Greater Bay Area. The doctors all suggested that they have greatly benefited from the new methods and concepts.

Osteoarthritis, as a common yet often overlooked chronic disease, brings significant physical and mental burdens to patients. Currently, with the continuous intensification of population aging, the incidence of osteoarthritis is on a steady rise, and the demand for relevant medical services is also increasing. The continued implementation of the Healthy China Move Free Joint Health Project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area can provide higher quality and more efficient medical services for osteoarthritis patients in the Greater Bay Area and even nationwide. It can also disseminate more professional knowledge on joint health, such as the supplementation of glucosamine, helping more people with joint issues and enjoy a better life.

During the event, Move Free provided the attending medical workers with joint health gift packs, which include brochures on the knowledge of joint health, classic glucosamine products from Move Free, and family pill organizers. This initiative received enthusiastic attentions.

Figure 3: Distribution site of Move Free's joint health gift packs

Cai Yiqun, who is in charge of the Healthy China Move Free Joint Health Project, stated that the training on osteoarthritis diagnosis and rehabilitation for doctors in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao is not only an important measure to deeply integrate medical resources from the three areas and promote the coordinated advancement of regional medical standards, but also a powerful means to vigorously promote the popularization and application of advanced medical technologies and scientific diagnosis and treatment plans, thereby building a solid health defense for residents in the region. In the future, based on regional and local characteristics, targeted training and guidance on bone health will be provided for local doctors.

Zhang Wenjing, brand representative of Move Free, stated that as a professional joint health brand, Move Free adheres to the values of "friendliness, innovation, science, and kindness", and is committed to conveying knowledge on joint health in an easy-to-understand manner, and ridding people of the pain and inconvenience caused by joint discomfort. To date, it has provided professional joint health services to over 2.6 million Chinese consumers. In the future, Move Free will continuously improve and enrich the project, build an exchange platform of health management for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of osteoarthritis for medical workers and residents in community hospitals nationwide through various forms, promote the comprehensive development of the joint health industry and contribute to the Healthy China Initiative.