One more season the Department of Physical Activity and Sports of Las Torres de Cotillas offers athletes of the municipality the free service of the municipal cabinet of sports medicine.
"It is directed by José Serna, specialist in medicine of physical education and sports, is provided in the municipal sports center and provides essential support for residents of the municipality who practice physical activity-sport," explains the mayor of the area, Ginés Pérez, who points out that this assistance is provided free of charge to users of schools and sports activities, as well as members of associations, clubs and sports sections.
The objectives of the service of this cabinet are several, including knowing the health status of athletes, prevent the most frequent pathologies, treatment of pathologies, monitoring of rehabilitation and transmit medical information to the athletes themselves, parents or guardians and sports monitors .
Reviews and recognitions
"Users can pass reviews and medical examinations with a personalized exploration in which their health and their ability to practice sports is valued, whether at the federated or amateur level", informs the councilor, who points out that the athletes who pass through this Service practices as diverse as soccer, tennis, badminton, basketball, handball, skating or rhythmic gymnastics.
For the reviews, an action protocol has been established that is applied to athletes and with which different aspects are valued, such as anthropometric data, locomotor, cardiopulmonary, arterial ... "The age of service users is 6 and 18 years , although other years have also been treated adults and seniors who practiced skating, athletics or gerontogimnasia, "recalls Perez.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas