Sports medicine facility excels

Manama : The National Sports Medicine Centre has become one of Bahrain’s most prominent sports related milestones, offering modern and efficient physiotherapy sessions for injured athletes.

Director of the Centre Dr Khalid Al Shaikh said they have conducted 2,806 physiotherapy sessions in total covering all segments of Bahrain society.

He said recent statistics saw relatively significant development compared to the first half of 2015, and is characterised by providing several services to large segments of the centre patients, either national teams’ or clubs players, and even non-athlete patients.

The services of the centre are also opened to citizens and residents and manned by high degree competent doctors and specialists in field of sports medicine.

Statistics show that 442 sessions were held for national teams’ players and 1,195 for clubs athletes, while the remaining sessions involved non-athlete citizens and residents patients.

Well-known doctor Juicy Jussi Rantanen, regarded as one of the most prominent international experts in the field of sports injuries, has diagnosed (35) injury cases during his most recent two-day visit to Bahrain.