Web helps provide care from distance

In addition to regularly seeing patients in a clinic, Wang Qiang, a doctor at the Sport Hospital Attached to Chengdu Sport Institute, in Chengdu, Sichuan province, previously had to travel hundreds of kilometers to provide treatment or medical guidance to athletes on provincial sports teams.

"Sometimes the athletes get intensive training in very remote places, and at night," he said. "It can be very difficult for me to go to the site to treat the injured."

Although each team has a doctor who follows them during training and contests, Wang is still asked to provide guidance in cases with complex conditions, Wang said.