A team generated by patients and professionals from Institut Guttmann faced the great challenge of Titan Desert

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Two teams generated by professionals and patients from Institut Guttmann – NeurorRabilitation Hospital They will face this year the big challenge of the 20th edition of Škoda titanium desert moroccoOne of the most demanding mountain cycling competitions around the world. Now it is shown, to Badalona Institut Guttmann facilitiesThis challenge symbolizes the efforts and overcomes of people living with a series of neurological damage, showing that sport can be a powerful tool for rehabilitation and reunion of society.

Both teams have been formed by two professionals from Institut Guttmann And by two patients: one has damage to the spine and a brain injury. In this way, each person will contribute their abilities to help each other. Will be fixed by Alejandro del Arco, Institut Guttmann’s traumatologist and initiative advocate.

This project leads to rehabilitation beyond the hospital, which offers patients the opportunity to achieve a sports challenge at the highest level.

The Titan Desert, That will take place from May 1 to 6, will test the physical and mental resistance of the participants: they will face 6 stages, 550 kilometers, a joint and itinerant camp and extreme conditions such as intense heat, sandy, stone tracks, pronounced slopes and the unique navigation of this race.

According to Of the arkThe project “not only challenges people with disabilities to overcome, but they are also invited to help others.

It will develop a team Iñaki Mujika, Pablo Montoia, José Antonio Bugarín ‘Buga’, Cristian Casals, Alfonso Rubio, Miquel Sarrió, Roger Rifà, Jesús Benito and álex del Arco.

Source: La Verdad

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