The UICAR of the Quirónsalud Toledo Hospital launches a pioneering unit in the field of Sports Cardiology and Metabolic Rehabilitation.
To this end, he incorporates into his medical team Dr. Alejandro Berenguel Senén , a specialist in Cardiology with more than 25 years of experience and a special dedication in the last decade to Sports Cardiology , Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation , a field to which he has dedicated his main research and teaching work.
In the field of Sports Cardiology, the service focuses both on the detection of heart problems that may put sports practice at risk , and on advising cardiac patients who wish to continue practicing sports or start practicing sports, and on optimizing the performance of athletes without any pathology who, regardless of their competitive level, can improve their sports performance through the study of their training level.
Better performance and injury prevention
"There are a number of high-performance tests that can be applied to amateur sport to obtain better results and increase safety when preventing injuries, as well as contributing to a longer and more satisfactory sporting career," says Dr. Berenguel.
"Our goal is to provide advanced sports advice in a personalized way, making available to our patients the entire battery of tests, technology and knowledge used in high-level sports, advising each patient according to their needs, but always with the aim of promoting their health through good sports practice," he continues.
The service is complemented by a pioneering Metabolic Rehabilitation unit at the national level based on the use of exercise therapies to treat various pathologies such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or Alzheimer's.
Physical exercise to reverse mitochondrial dysfunction
"This is an innovative programme, which follows the lead of renowned Spanish researcher Iñigo San Millán, who shows that therapies based on appropriately prescribed and sized physical exercise are capable of improving and even reversing the mitochondrial dysfunction systematically present in these pathologies," explains Berenguel, who is accompanied in this new project by trainer Manuel Gallango Brejano.
This new service is being launched as part of the Comprehensive Cardiology Unit of the Quirónsalud Toledo Hospital, coordinated by Dr. Roberto Martín Reyes , a specialist distinguished in the latest report of best doctors by El Confidencial as one of the three most outstanding cardiologists in the country.