The footballer has given his voice to the institution’s 2024-25 health campaign to promote medical check-ups among young sportsmen and women, with the message ‘If your heart beats for your team, it must beat with health’.
The Physical Activity and Health Unit of the Consell de Mallorca has opened the inscriptions for the 2024-2025 medical check-ups and is making a package of 12,000 free examinations available to young sportspeople between the ages of 6 and 16. The institution has done so with a very special collaboration, that of RCD Mallorca footballer Sergi Darder, who has given his voice to the campaign to promote sports health.
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The Consell de Mallorca and Sergi Darder collaborate to promote sports-medical prevention and a ‘healthy heart’
Today, the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés; the Minister of Environment, Rural Affairs and Sports, Pedro Bestard, and the CEO of Business of RCD Mallorca, Alfonso Díaz, presented the campaign at the Palau del Consell. ‘If your heart beats for your team, it must beat with health’ is the message in the voice of RCD Mallorca player Sergi Darder, which will reach federations and entities so that children and young people who want to have a complete check-up. The aim is to improve preventive medicine, extend coverage to federations and clubs, and bring services closer to local councils more directly and extensively.
The president of the Consell pointed out that ‘sports medicine has a preventive sense, and the best prevention is to have a medical check-up appropriate to each age and in each modality’. And he added that ‘the message of Sergi Darder, a reference among children and young athletes, is a reference to understand that in sport all preventive aspects count’.
The Consell de Mallorca has four active health check-up points in Mallorca, which are open in the afternoons to facilitate access to the majority of young athletes, clubs and families. And it has increased the number of complementary examinations, which are prescribed if any pathology is detected.
The second vice-president and sports councillor, Pedro Bestard, thanked RCD Mallorca for its selfless collaboration and stressed that ‘we are aware of the importance of promoting health in the population, with prevention and the detection of possible pathologies in early adolescence being of particular importance’.
The Consell’s medical check-ups include cardiorespiratory, postural and functional assessments. If pathologies of note are detected, a referral is made for a specific examination with the appropriate specialists. Cardiorespiratory assessment can detect respiratory or cardiological problems and can help in the diagnosis of cardiac pathologies associated with sudden death. Postural assessment is important mainly in growing age because cartilages are open and misalignments of lower limbs, spine, hip or knee alterations may imply vicious positions or overload injuries.
In the 2023-24 season, almost 4,000 check-ups were carried out, mostly for sports such as handball, adapted sports, canoeing, athletics, volleyball, wrestling (EBE) or tennis. The evaluation surveys carried out with users show a high level of satisfaction with the check-up (maximum score of 10), 88% of the users surveyed, or other aspects such as the attention of the health staff (94%) or the waiting times (84%).
Campaign against obesity
Perhaps one of the figures to be highlighted from the results of the 2023-24 season screening is that children and young people who practice sports have a low rate of obesity. In the study of the Body Mass Index (BMI), it is shown that 8% of the sportsmen and women who have undergone check-ups are overweight, and 1.3% of the children and young people fall within the parameters that could be considered obese.
In this sense, the Consell is launching a campaign parallel to the promotion of medical check-ups which, under the title ‘Natural-mente’, will provide advice and educational materials for young schoolchildren on nutrition and sports to prevent obesity: from reading nutritional labels to the selection of foods and the reduction of various products in the diet.
For more information, please visit the website https://esports.conselldemallorca.es/es/medicina-deportiva, email medesport@conselldemallorca.net or telephone 971 173 648.