Sports Medicine
MediClinic is an innovative health care facility that dedicated designated areas to athletes. MediClinic wants to become the new excellence facility for the modern athlete, where he can feel assisted in the most efficient way.
In MediClinic we take care of body and mind. We offer to our athletes diagnosis, treatment and prevention for all those problems that can occur while performing sports at a competitive or non-competitive level. We are equipped with sophisticated technologies and we collaborate with expert physicians, that uses innovative and efficient treatment models.
Sports medicine consultation
The Sports Medicine Department performs sports medicine consultation to issue the certificate to perform competitive or non-competitive activities.
The Sport Medicine consultation includes the following consultations:
- medical history;
- collection of anthropometric data (weight and height);
- urine test;
- consultation with chest auscultation and pressure measurement;
- spirometry;
- stress electrocardiogram;
- cardiac stress test.
For some sports activities, some additional exams are necessary (for example ophthalmology consult, neurology consult, electroencephalogram, etc), while the physician, if necessary, can prescribe further exams to evaluate particular pathological conditions.
The athlete pathway
Promptness, organization and efficiency are the key factors to obtain an efficient recovery after a sport injury and to re-start with trainings and competitions. MediClinic created a pathway to meet the athlete’s needs, from the pathology diagnosis to the return to trainings. The athlete pathway can handle with all the sports pathologies. This is a structured pathway, but the physician can customize it, according to the athlete’s needs. It takes care about some important aspects of the treatment, that sometimes are ignored, like the attention to the athletic gesture and to the psychological aspects when re-starting the physical activity after surgeries or injuries.
The MediClinic pathway is articulated in 6 steps:
- Welcoming
- Early diagnosis
- Specialized consult
- Surgical procedure
- Post-injury or post-surgical rehabilitation
- Discharge consult
Why choose MediClinic?
MediClinic takes care about the athlete’s world: its aim is to recovery in the best way, also after a surgical procedure.
Some strong points of the Departments are: the elaboration of customized pathways, avant-garde instrumental treatments (shock waves therapy, YAG laser therapy, tecar therapy, cryotherapy) and the excellence in the rehabilitation procedures for post-traumatic or post-surgical rehab (hydrotherapy, isokinetic, computerized stability springboard for proprioception).
Finally, the latest-generation devices can facilitate the physician and the athlete in the recovery; for example, MediClinic is equipped with the Cardiofitness Technogym with kinesis method, that adapts the muscular and articular effort. We are equipped also with the 4D formetric spine and posture analysis device, that improve the sport performance, the balance and the motor coordination, and with the foot analysis test and the gait analysis, to analysis that gait when walking or running.
