The purpose of the HLA Group is to take care of the health of its users before the illness, that is, it is committed to prevention beyond the restoration of its health. In this line, HLA San Carlos Dénia has implemented the new HLA Sport unit, the brand under which the HLA units that ensure a safe sport practice are combined.
The Sports Unit of HLA San Carlos Office It covers two levels of specialization: one basic and one advanced. In the case of the basic level, the service is aimed at ensuring healthy sports practice in non-professional athletes, young and adults, to detect the existence of risk factors, assessment of body composition with nutritional intake and podiatric study of the march or race . In the second level, the sports pathology and associated risk factors are monitored. In these cases, the team that intervenes in the process is composed of specialists in sports medicine, cardiologists, traumatologists, nutritionists, rehabilitators and podiatrists.
The entire unit is coordinated by a sports medicine professional with extensive experience in the development of skills of elite athletes, Dr. Francisco Clemente Ramón, who affirms that the importance of "Follow some basic recommendations before the start of a sports practice such as confirming an optimal state of health and advice with a professional technician to prepare a training plan, according to our state of health and initial physical form".
Regarding the initial phase, Dr. Clemente ensures that any type of sports practice should be an effort but at the same time an enjoyment in line with the result that we want to obtain, always without obsessing with the results. "Only if you enjoy comfort is obtained in each session and for this we must have the ability to stimulate and encourage us through a sports coach to guide us at the beginning. We must assess the athlete in all its facets: age, sex, work, state of health, exercise that you want to practice, level that you exercise, to establish a personalized nutritional plan and adapted to your characteristics because an amateur athlete will need nutritional contributions other than another that has deepened more in practice ".
The benefits of sports practice will begin to be noticed normally within a month of starting always taking into account the two fundamental premises described above since the fundamental objective is to promote health. "The sport does not have to be healthy, but it is the practice of physical exercise to maintain and / or improve our previous state of health. Any sport can be healthy if you take into account the state of health appropriate to the practice and the advice of a professional "He concludes the doctor.
