Medical Staff

One of the purposes laid upon the specialists of the Academy is preservation and promotion of health of young trainees. In this connection on the base of the Academy there has been established the Centre of Medical and Biomedical Support that works in concert with doctors and medical staff of sports schools for children and youth and provide for implementation of the following tasks:

1. Young Hockey Players Health Monitoring in the Course of Trainings and Competitions

The base of health monitoring is a complex of medical examinations made 1-2 times a year depending on the age of young sportsmen

2. Functional Checkout of Trainees

It is conducted by means of specialized functional tests of cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Such tests allow determining the level of physical work capacity and compensation abilities of the body.

Data concerning arterial tension, heart rate, temperature and body weight may sign on overextention during trainings or insufficient recovery of young hockey players after loads.

In order to make functional checkout in a quality manner there used special equipment that allow estimating the most important characteristics of the body functional activity.

3. Functional Rehabilitation of Trainees

Functional rehabilitation means recovery of a sportsman in the course and after training and competitive load, and increasing of his performance capability. This includes complex of recovery means and methods from a range of Sports Pharmacology, Physiotherapy, Reflexotherapy, Massage, Diet Monitoring, etc.

4. Sport Therapy

Any diseases of sportsmen always have their peculiarities connected with the nature of sporting activities of the athletes. That is why treatment of seemingly "usual" diseases by traditional methods does not always lead to effective result. The aim of the Centre specialists and of medical staff of sports schools for children and youth - is to look for and to find effective therapy methods of different diseases for their charges.

5. Sports Injuries and Medical Rehabilitation

The aim of trauma doctor is to provide quick return of a young sportsman to training and competitive activities after trauma and treatment. He should take care to ensure that consequences of trauma would not prevent from the further development of sporting skills of a young hockey player. Medical staff of sports schools for children and youth undertake delivery of care in case of the most part of orthopedic injuries, unless these injuries impose hospital service.

6. Biomedical Means and Methods Expertise

Apart from traditional medical knowledge specialists of the Centre perform their activity taking into account specific knowledge in the sphere of children and youth hockey. Fundamentals of theory and methods of physical training, sporting morphology, physiology, sport biochemistry, sports pharmacology, biomechanics, sport psychology, sport hygiene, etc. are factored into.

The Centre conducts constant work with parents, trainees and coaches in the field of anti-doping and anti-drug support, develop teaching aids on biomedical and psychological support for coaches and parents of players of any age and professional qualification.