The importance of the sports physiotherapist

In this article I am going to talk to you as a physiotherapy professional about the importance of a sports physiotherapist.

Any sports discipline requires physical preparation to be able to face it safely. History is full of examples of athletes who have achieved their goals thanks to good physical preparation, but it is also full of athletes who have reached the gates of the long-awaited competition (the marathon or any other test) and have been injured having arrived. in great shape.

But why does this happen? Why are there runners (or athletes in general) who get injured when they are at their best?

A sports physiotherapist prepares to train

The first answer that should be given to the question of why there are runners who get injured when they are at their best is that physical preparation is not the only variable that an athlete, in our case a runner, must take into account when preparing aware of an objective or a challenge.

A sports physiotherapist prepares to train, a physical trainer prepares to compete and a coach prepares to perform. And therein lies the key: that the foundation of progress be in the sports physiotherapy, since without "sports health" you cannot train, compete, much less perform at the highest level.

Physical preparation is necessary to control and measure loads in progression, but always based on the prior assessment made by a sports physiotherapist who, through functional biomechanical tests, generates the base on which to build, with quality and not quantity, the preparation of an athlete. As the slogan of a famous tire advertisement said some time ago… "Power without control is worthless".

And that is where the figure of the sports physiotherapist enters, in the prevention to manage loads, modify postures and make the athlete a physical machine with a perfect biomechanics.

It is scientifically proving that the central nervous system heals or adapts you, while you rest, so that you are functional, and if you do not have control over normal biomechanics, it will incorrectly adapt to sports demands and that can ultimately cause injuries. .

The sports physiotherapist helps to avoid and prevent injuries

So what to do to avoid and prevent injuries? The solution is simple: go to the sports physiotherapist with your preparation so that through prior assessment, with adaptive exercise and added to the preparation, you can generate the perfect symbiosis to give quality to your training.

In the world of running It is very common to go to centers where gait studies are carried out, but the reality is that you are going to move in the way that your biomechanics decides, therefore you have to control yourself statically to be able to give quality to the dynamic.

And how do we do this? In BOX 55 We use an application that you should know if you are an athlete and do not want to injure yourself: Valobando-Functional Biomechanical Analysis.

Valobando, an application to prevent and cure

Valobando is an application designed for the biomechanical assessment of the athlete in order to avoid and prevent injuries, in addition to planning exercise designed especially for the athlete who wants to recover their functionality and thus be able to be healthy and avoid injuries or relapses during physical preparation.

Valobando is an application that uses biomechanical tests based on scientific evidence and clinical experience to give us the necessary information to know our athlete (his weaknesses and deficits) in order to be able to generate specific work through planned therapeutic exercise

This application calculates the percentage of risk of injury to the athlete by joints, between lower and upper limbs or between both sides; classifies the athlete within some pillars of work through physiotherapy control and thus it is possible to assign him exercises so that he can work at home during his preparation sessions with the aim of preventing injuries, without stopping training.

This application is the solution to the "abandonment" suffered by the athlete in rehabilitation and readaptation when they have home work. It is very easy to use by the athlete who, through self-assessment, can see his improvement and inform the sports physiotherapist so that he can modify exercises and design tasks that favor his recovery in case of being injured or prevent injuries in order to face all sports challenges. Risk free.

It is also an application that will allow a specific and correct evaluation of a growing-age athlete boy or girl to decide which specialist to go to in order to prevent problems in the future.

Valobando allows the self-assessment of the athlete and the interaction with the sports physiotherapist from their home or from anywhere in the world. It is very useful to control athletes during vacation periods or in preseason and thus be able to generate preventive work for them when they return to their training sessions.

This app bridges the gap between physiotherapy and the athlete.

Do not leave to chance the possibility of not injuring yourself; don't leave your sports season to chance; Don't leave your dreams to chance. Find your sports physiotherapist.

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David Valenzuela Diaz

Physiotherapist at BOX55

David Valenzuela Díaz has a degree in physiotherapy from the Cardenal Herrera CEU University and a Master's degree in assessment, physiotherapy and sports rehabilitation from the University of Valencia. He is CEO of BOX55 Fisioterapia y Academia SL, of BOX55 Academy and of Valobando SL Functional Biomechanical Analysis.
David Valenzuela, CEO of BOX55

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