Experts from the sports and health sector gathered on the occasion of this initiative at the Los Jerónimos campus and organized by the UCAM Department of Sports Traumatology
Caja Rural Central (CRC) has sponsored the conference on sciences applied to tennis in the UCAM under the motto ‘From the beginning to the elite, always in good company’. Ginés Argiles, director of the CRC Murcia area, came on behalf of the entity and stated that “CRC always supports initiatives in the sports sector, it is in our DNA, so we are very happy to be here today and listen to great professionals , such as Juan José López, traumatologist and physician of the tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, or Ángel Ruiz Cotorro, head of the Medical Service of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation».
Professionals from the fields of psychology, nutrition, podiatry, physical preparation, physiotherapy, traumatology and even sensor chemistry were some of the key players of the conference. For Lourdes Meroño, Dean of UCAM’s Faculty of Sports, this conference served to “better understand a sport as complex as tennis, in which factors as diverse as physiology, biomechanics, psychology or nutrition play a role; and apply all the teachings we get in every field.
More specifically, in the field of medicine applied to tennis, Ángel Ruiz Cotorro discussed the risks of injuries in young tennis players and their implications for the future, highlighting that “there is a very high percentage of injuries between 12 and 16 years old, some of them can determine his sports career; we found tendon, spine, hip and overuse injuries”.
The most technological part of the sector was also discussed. María Cuartero, extraordinary professor of sensor chemistry at UCAM, explained the possibilities that can be applied to top sports in her field, with the development of sensors in a device adapted to an application to digitize sports activity, “since sweat provides information in real time and continuously, tracking changes in markers or biomarkers, such as hydration, glucose or lactate”.
With this partnership, CRC will conclude its sponsorship strategy in 2022 and will continue its work in support of the professional and amateur sports sector in 2023.
Source: La Verdad
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