Abstract

Many athletes, after a trauma, need a rapid therapeutic and rehabilitative solution to get back to sports activities. Many symptoms can limit rehabilitation, such as inflammation, oedema, muscle contraction, and pain. These symptoms can be treated with appropriate therapies. Efficacy and tolerability data have been reported with the application of mesotherapy in many local pain syndromes. Is there a rationale for the use of this technique to manage athletes who need rapid recovery after a sports trauma? For many years it has been believed that the pharmacological action alone was able to explain the clinical effects, recently a hypothesis of a complex “dermal interaction” has been advanced which justifies the use of intradermal therapy even after a sports trauma. Remarks from the Italian Society of Mesotherapy for sports medicine specialists are reported.