Dott. Sportellini Federico

Clinical expertise and treatments

• Sports rehabilitation and return to play

  Management of injuries in athletes according to the methods learned in professional football and volleyball medical staffs. The rehabilitation pathway is followed from the treatment table to the therapeutic gym, through to the recovery of sport-specific movement, strength and proprioception.

• Orthopaedic manual therapy

  Functional assessment and application of specific manual techniques, joint mobilisations and soft tissue treatment (muscles, fasciae, tendons). An approach indicated for muscle contractures, joint restrictions and painful spinal syndromes such as low back pain, chronic neck pain and sciatica.

• Radial shockwave therapy

  Use of mechanical acoustic pulses, a non-invasive technology employed to support tissue regeneration and treat calcifications in chronic degenerative musculoskeletal conditions, including plantar fasciitis, calcific shoulder tendinopathy, epicondylitis and chronic tendinitis.

• Post-surgical and post-traumatic physiokinesitherapy

  Individual motor re-education aimed at functional and joint recovery after orthopaedic joint replacement surgery (hip, knee) or ligament reconstruction (anterior cruciate ligament, rotator cuff).

Head of the Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy Unit

• •Degree in Physiotherapy, awarded on 3 April 2009 by the University of Perugia
• •Two-year first-level master’s degree in Manual Therapy and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Padua (2012-2014)
• •Professional licence and registration with the Italian Register of Physiotherapists (FNOFI), no. 565
• •Former physiotherapist on the medical staff of Sir Safety Umbria Volley (volleyball Superlega) and A.C. Perugia Calcio, responsible for athletes’ recovery, prevention and conditioning