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“Thank you very much for the screening weekend. It was a worthwhile experiment and I plan to do it again…by investing in especially the education and knowledge of our players we achieve a more sophisticated and self-correcting athlete…my assumption is that this will translate in the long run to better performances.”
Gene Mueller, Coach
National Men’s Field Hockey

 

SportMed Performance

Overview

The vision of SportMedBC is a comprehensive, highly-integrated sport medicine network and knowledge base serving active Canadians with professionalism, innovation and responsiveness. Its mission is to promote Sport Health on the strength of the Best People, Best Practices and Best Programs in sport medicine, sport science and sport training.

This all comes together—at the highest levels of expertise and organizational delivery—under the auspices of SportMed Performance, an integrated program in which performance athletes and teams receive the consultation, support and direction they need to achieve optimal sport performance.

Building on SportMedBC’s underpinnings in injury prevention, SportMed Performance encompasses the most advanced programs in sport health, sport training and sport nutrition, and offers performance athletes and teams with access to the most sophisticated assessment protocols, training methodologies and performance resources.

Simply put, SportMed Performance programs provide coordinated services to assist athletes and teams with their phyiscal, nutritional and mental preparation as well as to monitor optimal health status, prevent injuries and provide medical treatment referrals.

Our Client List

  • Vancouver Whitecaps FC (Men, Women and Youth Programs)
  • Canadian Soccer Association (National Women’s Team)
  • Team Kelly Scott Curling (2006 World Champions)
  • Softball Canada (National Women’s Team)
  • Canadian Figure Skating Association (BC Section)
  • Canadian Wheelchair Rugby Team
  • Canadian Alpine Disabled Ski Team
  • Canadian Snowboard Federation (National Team Program)
  • WTA Tour (women’s professional tennis tour)
  • National Squash Program (Women)
  • Tennis Canada
  • Canadian Yachting Association (National Team Program)
  • BC’s Integrated Performance System
  • Team BC (Canada Summer and Winter Games)
  • BC Golf Association

Program History

As sport training has become more sophisticated and comprehensive at all levels, so too has the understanding that athletes and teams are best served by an “integrated approach” to optimal performance. As a professional not-for-profit society comprised of sport medical and science practitioners in British Columbia, SportMedBC offered built-in access to many of the best professionals in the fields of sport medicine, sport science and sport training.

Throughout its 25-year history, SportMedBC has provided coordinated services to interested athletes and teams, but it was in the mid-1990s when the demand began to justify formal programming protocols and delivery. SportMedBC began to work directly with organizations such as the Sport Branch of the Government of British Columbia (Team BC), national sport federations (through Sport Canada), provincial associations and multi-sport organizations such as PacificSport.

SportMed Performance programs and services are led by Olympians for Olympians and other performance athletes and are designed to provide access to the best professional services available in Canada.