Ribera Lab enables safe sport with Covid tests, over-training monitoring and specific check-ups

• The Ribera healthcare group’s laboratory division works with more than a dozen clubs and many other federations, through Alicante’s Immunology Center.
• It provides their athletes with all types of laboratory tests on site, giving personalized attention and avoiding the need for them to travel.

Alicante, 3^rd, June, 2020 –  Ribera Lab, the Ribera healthcare group‘s division, enables more than a dozen clubs and other such federations to practise safe sport in order to guarantee the health and maximum performance of their athletes, always aiming to ensure their physical well-being. Through Alicante’s Immunology Center, Ribera Lab collaborates with multiple entities, not only in the Valencian Community but throughout Spain, carrying out all types of laboratory tests on athletes, from Covid tests in order to play tournaments or championships to over-training monitoring, general and specific check-ups, cardiogenetics and parameter monitoring.

The Ribera healthcare group laboratory division provides these tests on its own premises or at the club and federation venues, as well as at places where there are gatherings or at sports halls where a competition takes place. The Alicante province is the chosen base for a lot of teams for gatherings and long training periods for various sports, due to the versatility of its terrain and, in particular, because of the weather conditions, which enables training in the open air all year round. Throughout the whole season, the Ribera Lab-Immunology Center has provided serological tests and PCR tests to athletes and technical staff when travelling or when it has been necessary for them to participate in competitions. However, in addition, the specific check-ups that are carried out, with the monitoring of parameters that the clubs’ or federations’ medical bodies establish, allow for the detection of, for example, when a certain level could pose a physical problem for the athlete and, thus, damage to the heart, liver or musculoskeletal system is avoided. The tests always use a range of values, within which it is understood that there is no danger involved for the athlete. And it is precisely this type of check-up for elite athletes or those that compete at a high level that enables them to avoid significant damage and help to take care of the health of this group of people. In addition, the Immunology Center specializes in cardiogenetics, in order to prevent any of the possible outcomes such as the sudden death of athletes.