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Dr. Markus Waldén discussed the results of a study of professional soccer teams for ten years
The Temple of Jeronimos Monastery host from today until next Saturday the First International Conference on Prevention of Injury in Sport held by the Catholic University of Murcia.
Dr. Markus Walden, Division of Community Medicine, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Linköping (Sweden) gave the inaugural conference that showed the results of the study conducted for ten years teams UEFA Champions League.
The study has allowed to confirm that in professional football muscle injuries are the most common problems, in particular those that occur in the back of the thigh, the hamstring muscles.
"The present ankle injuries are few, and this is because it has worked very well with preventive training. But in the case of hamstring injury is not well known, which is now being studied, therefore, perhaps, within five years, it may be that these injuries are reduced. "
In addition, during his speech, Markus Walden has shown that various data attest to the importance of prevention as is the fact that a football team will produce, on average, about 50 injuries per season.
"For the coach is a problem that more than 10% of the team has injuries, since you can not count on them."
Better safe than sorry
Other personalities who are participating in the conference is the Director of Medical Services of Real Madrid, Carlos J. Díez, which has led to the importance of prevention in sports and has said in regard to preparation for a season that "begins to work from the preseason, where it becomes something much more specific because it is round athletes of the summer stage, but then during the year will doing preparation programs in general for the whole team, and personalized for each of the athletes, since each has its strengths and weaknesses, and in our hands is to balance the scales. "
In the same vein the doctor has referred the Spanish National Team and Celta de Vigo, Juan Garcia Cota, who has been identified as basic injury prevention in sport issues, make a preliminary medical examination, "which is a thing that we suffer in our country and that is not always done "and proper nutrition and hydration," which are aspects that we now know and are proven to prevent injuries. "
About his work in both institutions García dimension has stated that "the selection is more difficult to do this type of work because the contact is very timely; prevention work we do much more at club level, but if it is true that in the selection care nutrition, hydration, and make the relevant surveys before long races as will now be the World Cup. "
University & sport
In the opening ceremony have spoken the rector of the UCAM, Josefina García Lozano, Deputy Director General of Sport and Health Superior Council of Sports, Ignacio Ara, the director of the Department of Sports Traumatology University, José Luis Martínez Romero; Dean of the Faculty of CAFD, Antonio Sanchez Pato, the Dean of the Bachelor of Medicine, Jerome Lajara, and the director of the Spanish Olympic Committee Sports, Ricardo Leiva, who has said that joining the college sports world is a necessity.
"The UCAM is still the leading organization of such events university and is among the few universities that are now at the forefront of such initiatives."
Injury Prevention in combat sports
The morning session will focus on combat sports, and will be attended, among others, the Chief Medical Officer of Club Atlético de Madrid, Jose Maria Villalon, the physical trainer of the Spanish National Taekwondo, Gabriel Esparza i Perez, among others.
These meetings also encompass the Third International Congress on Sport Sciences: Injury Prevention, and XXII National Conference of Sports Traumatology.
Programme.
Source: UCAM
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