- Valencia Tennis Club and IMED Hospitals organise a workshop within the conferences cycle of the BBVA Open City of Valencia.
The Valencia Tennis Club and IMED Hospitals celebrated yesterday the workshop “Medical advances in sports”, framed into the conferences cycle “News and Innovation in sports” that is preparing the Club with the occasion of the BBVA Open City of Valencia. Different doctors took part on the lectures as Ignacio Vicente, head of the Integrative Medicine Unit in IMED and Eva Escorihuela; Oscar Fabregat, Cardiology Chief of Service, and Manuel Cifrian, interventionist specialist in pain treatment.
Dr. Oscar Fabregat explained how important are medical checkups for athletes in developmental age as most suitable method to detect heart diseases and prevent sudden death, hence the generalization of implementation by sports federations.
Likewise, doctor Cifrian’s discourse about trends and pain treatment advances, in which non invasive techniques and accurate treatment are IMED work model, because they make easier the recovery and involve less affectation for patients.
During his intervention, Dr. Ignacio Vicente explained the concept of integrative medicine, in which also take part diet and life habits as elements to optimise prevention. In this sense, he highlighted the use that the Integrative Medicine Unit make from the traditional Chinese medicine.
Ultimately, it represents a concept from the holistic medicine and a model of predictive, preventive, proactive and personalised medicine, that allows to offer more accurate diagnosis and treatment. Regarding athlete’s health, prevention and personalised treatment, because health is the result of genetic and environmental factors, combined with different decisions that impact on mental health and sports efficiency.
