EXPERT CONNECTION RETURN TO SPORT POST-COVID WITH SPORTS MEDICINE FOCUS

Three Chilean Olympic sports medicine professionals and one Brazilian will be the guests on the next edition of the Expert Connection, this Thursday on the Panam Sports Channel at 5pm (ET). The session will cover the important theme of guiding high-performance athletes and coaches during their return to training and competition as countries are ending their confinement protocols.

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While the numbers of infected and deceased people from Covid-19 begin to slowly decline throughout the continent, many countries are beginning to end self-isolation and quarantine protocols that have been in place for more than 100 days.

This is a moment long awaited by many people, especially high-performance athletes and coaches who have looked forward to being able to return to their normal routines of training and competing as they begin to plan for next year’s events, highlighted by the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

But after so many months of confinement and completely different training routines, it is necessary to take all physical and psychological precautions to ensure a safe and healthy return.

In light of this, Panam Sports has organized a spectacular Expert Connection with four professionals with vast experience in Olympic sports teams who will undoubtedly guide athletes and coaches to a very positive experience in their return missions.

The experienced guests joining the program are Doctors Alejandro Orizola, Fernando Radice and Pauline Bittencourt, as well as Kinesiologist Marcelo Vargas.

Dr. Pauline Bittencourt is a Brazilian specialist in Traumatology, Preferred Physician of Team Brazil’s Women’s Handball team, Member of the COSCABAL Medical Department and Member of the Brazilian Orthopedic Society. She will speak about the theme of "How to face a post-Covid sports life."

Dr. Fernando Radice is a Chilean Traumatologist, Head of the Clinical Traumatology Service of the Universidad de Los Andes, who also works as Head Doctor of the Universidad de Chile football club, the Chilean football team and the Chilean Olympic Committee. His presentation theme will be "The updated contribution of medicine to the practice of sport."

Chilean Kinesiologist Marcelo Vargas Zerene is the current Executive Director of Kinesiología Clínica Meds, Chief Kinesiologist of the Professional Soccer Team of the Catholic University of Chile and of the Chilean Soccer Team. Within his vast experience, he has been a Kinesiologist of Chile in the Olympic Games of Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996. He will present on the theme "Kinesthetic tips for musculoskeletal protection upon return".

The moderator of this unmissable conversation will be Dr. Alejandro Orizola, Chief Physician of the Chilean Olympic Committee and of the Universidad de Los Andes Clinic with vast experience in the Olympic, Pan American and South American Games with the Chilean National Team.

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