劉佩慧

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Lau Pui Wai is a senior sports physiotherapist at the Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI), the government-funded statutory body responsible for identifying and nurturing Hong Kong's elite athletes and for providing the city's representative teams with a central training base together with sports-science and sports-medicine support. She is part of the Institute's Sports Medicine Department, working alongside Sports Medicine Director Dr Raymond So, Associate Director (Sports Medicine) Lau Cheuk Chi and several other senior sports physiotherapists. Her day-to-day work centres on the physiotherapy and rehabilitation needs of elite athletes: assessing sports injuries, providing manual therapy and taping, and designing and delivering rehabilitation programmes that help athletes return safely to competition. That work depends on close communication with coaches, strength and conditioning staff and sports scientists, so that recovery plans and training loads are adjusted in step with one another. Outside her regular duties, Lau Pui Wai was named to the medical team of the Hong Kong, China delegation for the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, travelling as medical personnel and providing on-site physiotherapy and athlete health support during the Games. The schedule at a major multi-sport Games is intense, and athletes often compete in several events in quick succession, so medical staff must make fast and sound decisions under real pressure. Appointment to a Games delegation is recognition of professional standing within Hong Kong's sports-physiotherapy field, and it reflects the role that the HKSI's Sports Medicine Department plays in supporting athletes at major events.