SPORTS MEDICINE

Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the treatment and prevention of injuries related to exercise.

Its main task is to evaluate the physical condition of an individual in order to provide him/her the most accurate indications for the practice of physical exercise as well as nutritional advice for the prevention and treatment of exercise-related injuries and conditions.
This discipline aims to sufficiently prevent and treat injuries caused by poorly executed sport techniques.
Sport and exercise medicine doctors provides the following services:

• prescription of physical activity to prevent or treat pathologies that are exercise-sensitive.
• athlete health surveillance programmes as a prevention measure against possible injuries caused by an incorrect sports practice.
• Nutritional, psychological, and health education during exercise.

In Italy, there is a very strict health regulation related to physical fitness for the practice of competitive and non-competitive sports activities, which requires a medical certification following clinical and instrumental tests, designed to detect any pathologies that could increase the risk of sudden death or cause important physical damage to athletes.

SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE DALLA ROSA PRATI MEDICAL CENTRE:

• Agonistic sport qualifying physical examination and issuance;
• health assessment visits and physical efficiency tests for:
  
  • 6 to 15 years old;
  • over 15 and adults;
  • seniors.
• Full functional physical examination for athletes based on their sport.