There is a volleyball player who misses out with a shrug dribble in the phalanx, the motorcyclist to take up his two-wheeled racing car fail, the muscles of the forearm, the basketball player who falls apart a wrist or the player who plays with pedi instead of using your hands and it hurts. The hand, for the sport - climbing by those who those who play ice hockey - is one of the limbs most affected by fractures, infections, dislocations. The specialists are well aware of the Unit of Hand Surgery Hospital of Sesto San Giovanni have decided to create the first World Institute of Sports Traumatology of the Hand. A kind of international network of industry gurus to ensure the athletes the best care wherever they are.
the hand surgery IRCCS Sesto, directed by Giorgio Pajardi, professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Milan, over ten years, performing around five thousand operations per year. And among hotel guests, who can also enjoy a fully equipped gym to continue training during hospitalization, there are so many sports stars. As Marco Stain, basketball dell'Armani Jeans, followed in January this year by Dr. Pivato for a compound fracture of the third metacarpal of his left hand. O Massimo Bulleri, who was also a basketball player on loan to Treviso basketball, work on the little finger of his left hand Oct. 27, 2008.
avail of professional sports world traveler, the new school offers a hand rehabilitation center run by 15 specialists, covering both surgery that the other therapies. In support there is also a team of psychologists, because the sample in office, the first incident, do not take panic or hysteria. And because you put in the mood to heal as quickly as possible. Last but not least, for those who are injured during a tournament or competition abroad, are ready to operate surgeons French, English, Polish, Russian, Chinese, American and so on. And like any self-respecting institution, there is also the part of the research aims at applying the most sophisticated surgical techniques that are less invasive or testing of alternative therapies. The WRISTH (This is the international acronym) works laboratories with biodynamic and biokinetic Keyo the University of Tokyo, the anatomy of the Miami Hand Center and the University of Hong Kong.
The categorical imperative of the Institute, says its president Loris Pegoli, "is to offer the best possible support to athletes around the world, ensuring the return to the track in fast times, respecting the physiology of trauma or disease. In short, while Valentino Rossi had to break his hand again during the Moto GP in Valencia and the "trigger finger" by Alessandro Nesta persists, the two champions will know where to turn.
