MALLORCA SPORT MEDICINE
At the Sports Medicine Unit of Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Palma, we work in a multidisciplinary fashion, and see sport not only as a recreational and competitive activity, but also as a method of health and rehabilitation for optimising one’s quality of life. We have specialists in physical education and sports medicine, sports cardiologists, anaesthesiologists who specialise in pain therapy and sport, traumatologists, rehabilitators, physiotherapists, osteopaths, psychologists, nurses, graduates in physical activity and sport science and nutritionists.
OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT
- Adaptation of the needs and goals of each client to the different therapeutic strategies.
- Evaluation of the initial state of health and detection of possible risks associated to physical activity.
- Comprehensive sports-medical and psychological assessment.
- Optimisation of sports performance, improving your state of health.
- Treatment and rehabilitation of injuries.
- Readaptation to sport.
- Evaluation of aerobic and functional capacity.
WHO IS IT FOR?
- Professional sportspeople.
- Amateur sportspeople.
- Schoolchildren who practise sports.
- People with a sedentary lifestyle who wish to become initiated in sports activity.
- People with special needs (Adapted Sport).
- Post-operatory processes which require active rehabilitation.
- Women wishing to recover from childbirth.