Dr. Xavier Vaille
Team Physician FC Barcelona Spain
Biography
Xavier Valle (MD and PhD), works for FC Barcelona Medical department since 2004, as Team Doctor for Roller Hockey, Indoor Football, Basketball and now for Football First Team. He has also been working as Sport Physician for the last 15 years with professional tennis players, and in ICATME-DEXEUS Sports Medicine Department.
Born in Granada, but growing up in Barcelona, he obtained his medical degree from the “Universitat Rovira I Virgili”, a Master in Sports Medicine by “Universitat de les Illes Balears”, his training as Sport Physician in “Escola de Medicina de l’Esport de l’Universitat de Barcelona”, a Master in “Investigation in Clinical Sciences” by Universitat de Barcelona, and his PhD with Cum Laude by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, focused on his research about muscle injuries with the development of a classification for muscle injuries “MLG-R”.
He is mainly focused on muscle injuries, tendinopathies, and rehabilitation; and wants to keep working on muscle injuries research.
His hobbies are to do sport (swimming, spinning, gym, walk..), and cook with his wife.