Regenerative Medicine and Joint Preservation Unit
Our Unit is made up of a highly specialized multidisciplinary hospital medical team, which covers a series of specific therapeutic strategies, within the following areas IMATDE ARTHROSPORT. The team is focused on biological treatments, ultrasound-guided techniques in locomotor system and bone metabolism problems. ORTHOBIOLOGY is an emerging medical area focused on the study and medical application of therapies that produce a biological stimulation (direct or indirect) of the natural phenomena of repair of pathologies of the locomotor system. It could be said that the patient becomes the drug. To optimize these treatments to the maximum, we use ultrasound-assisted techniques in joints, muscle and tendon.
An avant-garde concept that we promote in our unit is the so-called REGENERATIVE REHABILITATION, defined by the American Physical Therapy Association, as the integration of interventional orthobiologic therapy with rehabilitation protocols aimed at enhancing the innate healing capacity of tissue through movement, enhancing reciprocally orthobiologic therapies. Physical therapy is one of the central pivots of the orthobiologic field. The goal of all reparative therapy is to facilitate tissue healing through specific mechano-adaptation (with exercises and mobilization) in order to enhance joint and soft tissue well-being. For our unit, it is essential to combine a biological therapy program with a physical therapy and therapeutic exercise program.
Our team is the result of the multidisciplinary experience of specialists in Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation, Rheumatology and Family Medicine, with extensive knowledge in ultrasound techniques in musculoskeletal and bone metabolism. This type of new treatments arise because some of the more traditional therapies sometimes do not give very satisfactory clinical results in certain musculoskeletal pathologies, with relatively high rates of recurrence, residual symptomatology and functional limitation.
The existence of protocols of therapeutic indications in biological therapies are continuously updated and have become very useful tools to obtain greater fluidity and homogenization of treatments, which improves clinical outcomes in a clear way. These recently appeared Units are extremely useful in the context of a COT Service, not only for the treatment of acute or chronic periarticular soft tissue injuries in patients with sports injuries, but even in difficult clinical cases, such as Painful Prosthesis Syndrome (especially shoulder, hip and knee), where there may be an involvement of periarticular soft tissues that sometimes represent a real diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. In our experience, 90% of this type of cases can be treated in an outpatient clinic and approximately the remaining 10% require the use of operating room facilities, due to the type of technique, approaches, general anesthesia or sedation, etc.
In a Clinical Unit of this type, teamwork and the creation of multidisciplinary therapeutic algorithms are essential. It is not the same to treat a sedentary elderly patient as one who exercises regularly, nor a high-impact professional athlete as an amateur without an adequate training technique. This type of therapy has evolved to such an extent that a patient may require two different treatments for each joint, depending on the degree of injury and other factors. In Imatde Arthrosport, we have a very specialized and experienced medical team in this type of treatments.
To learn more about the Unit and IMATDE ARTHROSPORT visit: https://arthrosport.es/arthrosport-malaga/
Our team
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Dr. Carlos Ferrer Señoráns
TRAUMATOLOGY AND ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
Head of Unit
Interventional Orthobiology
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Dr. Guillermo Álvarez Rey
SPORTS MEDICINE
Interventional Orthobiology
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Dr. Rafael Romero Anaya
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE
Interventional Orthobiology
Bone Metabolism
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Dr. Marisa Felices Montes
PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
Interventional Orthobiology
Bone Metabolism
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Dr. Javier Aguilar Del Rey
RHEUMATOLOGY
Bone Metabolism
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Josefina Flores Moya
AUXILIARY NURSE
Biological technical coordination