ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The 38th National Congress of the Italian Medical Federation, entitled “Biological age, an anagraphic age, opened at the Cavalieri hotel in Rome. It is the occasion for sports doctors to claim a role within the institutional debate that establishes the parameters governing the social system. To ask for scientific knowledge to contribute to the strategic choices of the country’s political, economic and social system. This is what President Fmsi asks, Maurizio Casasco: “We were born in 1929 and we are not only the Medical Federation of the Cones, but also the only scientific society recognized by the Ministry of Health – he explained –. And as a scientific company we are able today, with the specialty of Sports Medicine, to elaborate guidelines and protocols that allow to transfer our knowledge and skills from the highest level of Olympic to the National Health System. A bit like Ferrari from which it is extrapolated and transmitted technology to produce a 500′′′.
“We need system and intervention through the physical activity on the health of Italians at a time when the anagram age ages and therefore we must bring people to a better biological age, affecting the economic system that must be erected in favor of the whole country, not only economically but in terms of health. It is a great challenge that the Federation wants to do in favor of all citizens of the country and the Italian health system. We have the possibility as sports medicine specialists to define what is the biological age compared to the anagram age, introducing the concept of functional capacity in addition to the clinical parameter,” he later added to the margin of the event.
On the opening day of the Congress the Minister of Health Orazio Schillaci spoke: “Healthspan, the lifespan in good health, is the indicator of effectiveness of national health policies, reducing the gap with lifespan, the simple lifespan, is a challenge that you win by focusing on prevention and promotion of healthy lifestyles. And sports medicine will contribute decisively to addressing us to preventive and precision medicine.” His colleague, Minister of the University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini touched a warm theme of the conference, which is at heart to the Federation: “In our work there is an intervention on specialization schools, as in the case of sports medicine. We want to get to have the sports doctor running the sports medical school. What often does not happen and on which I guarantee my personal commitment to the rectors of Italian universities”. Fabio Pigozzi, President of the International Federation of Sports Medicine, stressed that “the contribution of Italy in the evolution of sports medicine is authoritative and consistent and strongly affects international practices, through vision, rigor and method”.
Marco Giunio De Sanctis (president of the Italian Paralympic Committee), Rossana Ciuffetti (Director Sport Impact-Sport and Saliute) and Diana Bianchedi ( vice-president of the Coni). Finally, President Casasco dealt with the issue of health with a specific subject, according to him decisive: “Physical activity has a strong impact on all human physiological activities, in particular it regulates biology and metabolism. Doing physical activity means fighting obesity and overweight and chronic inflammation, due to the main non-transmissible pathologies. In industrialized countries obesity is a real problem, for non-transmissible pathologies represents more than 70% in the world and more than 90% in Italy. We cannot think of fighting obesity only with laws and medicines, while we know that physical activity is an extraordinary medicine, especially at zero cost. It should obviously be prescribed in the most correct way to affect the improvement of the quality of life of people and also in the key to saving the SSN”.
“It is a great challenge that the Federation wants to do in favor of all citizens of the country and the Italian health system. We have the possibility as sports medicine specialists to define what is the biological age compared to the anagram age, introducing the concept of functional capacity in addition to the clinical parameter,” added Casasco.
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