Dr Hakim Chalabi to Echorouk: “Prevention, follow-up and results are the key to a top physical shape”

Taking the floor Thursday during a conference organized at the premises of the newspaper “Echorouk” in upper Algiers, Doctor Hakim Chalabi dwelt on the ins and outs of sport medicine in Qatar by raising several major points related to the preservation of the top form of athletes in order to allow them to achieve better results similarly to the big clubs of the football world like for instance FC Barcelona, AC Milan, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and PSG.

• Doctor Chalabi, who is regarded as one of the pillars of the famous Aspetar hospital in Doha, revealed that the relevant program worked out in Qatar had been given the blessing by the Qatari Olympic Committee itself and spanned all sectors of activity in the life of the athletes involved in the various sporting competitions.
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• He brought into focus during his enlightening lecture the whole spectrum of the information track relating to the physical condition of the athletes by riveting the attention on the required fitness of the football players involved in national, regional or international contests.
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• Doctor Hakim Chalabi stressed, in this connection, that prevention was the best weapon for any football player intent on safeguarding his health condition and averting any debilitating injury during official matches or even during the hard training sessions.
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• In case of injury, the player should be subjected to the necessary medical treatment including surgery if need be as well as a stringent follow-up of his ailment before being allowed by the medical staff to take up again with official competition with no ensuing complications, he asserted.
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• Under a protocol agreement signed recently between Doha’s renowned Espetar hospital and the Algerian Football Federation (FAF), Doctor Hakim Chalabi indicated that the two sides were now examining the possibility of setting up in the near future a new Espetar hospital dedicated to the treatment of sport-related ailments in the Maghreb region.
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