Boston Sports Medicine and Performance Group, LLC Blog

Click below to see highlights from our 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar featuring Keynote Speaker, Irving "Boo" Schexnayder.

More highlights are set to come in the next few weeks so stay tuned!

Save the date for the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar - May 17th & 18th in Boston MA.

Keynote Speakers include: Dr. Stuart McGill, Dr. Marco Cardinale, Fergus Connolly, Adriann Louw and Marvin Chun.  Individual learning track speakers will be announced shortly. 

This is sure to be the biggest Sports Medicine and Sports Performance Seminar to date!

A special thanks again to our SPONSORS!

BSMPG is proud to announce Ariaan Louw as a keynote speaker at the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar - May 17th and 18th, 2013!  Adriaan joins keynote speakers, Dr. Stuart McGill, Marco Cardinale, Fergus Connolly and Marvin Chun for this weekend event.  With the most thorough and integrated speaker line-up ever assembled, the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar will be the WORLD'S most sought after Sports Medicine & Performance Seminar to date!!

We are expecting the largest crowd in the history of BSMPG events with speakers and attendees traveling the globe to be in Boston in May of 2013, and thus have already made plans to move our main lecture hall to a newly renovated multi-tier auditorium.

Be sure to save the date now - hotels will fill fast with this event along with normal Boston traffic so start making plans now!

See you in Boston next May!!!

ADRIAAN LOUW, PT, PhD (c), M.App.Sc (physio), GCRM, CSMT

International Spine and Pain Institute

Save the Date: May 17 & 18th, 2013 - Boston MA.  This will be one conference that you will not want to miss!!

BSMPG is proud to announce Fergus Connolly as a keynote speakers at the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar - May 17th and 18th, 2013!  Fergus joins keynote speakers, Dr. Stuart McGill and Marco Cardinale and Marvin Chun for this weekend event.  With the most thorough and integrated speaker line-up assembled, the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar will be the WORLD'S most sought after Sports Medicine & Performance Seminar to date!!

We are expecting the largest crowd in the history of BSMPG events with speakers and attendees traveling the globe to be in Boston in May of 2013, and thus have already made plans to move our main lecture hall to a newly renovated multi-tier auditorium.

Be sure to save the date now - hotels will fill fast with this event along with normal Boston traffic so start making plans now!

See you in Boston next May!!!

FERGUS CONNOLLY

Performance Consultant: Liverpool FC and others

Save the Date: May 17 & 18th, 2013 - Boston MA.  This will be one conference that you will not want to miss!!

BSMPG is proud to have Dr. Marvin Chun from Yale University as our opening speaker at the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar - May 17th and 18th, 2013!  Dr. Marvin Chun joins keynote speakers, Dr. Stuart McGill and Marco Cardinale for this weekend event.  With the most thorough and integrated speaker line-up assembled to date, the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar will be the WORLD'S most sought after Sports Medicine & Performance Seminar to date!!

We are expecting the largest crowd to date with speakers and attendees traveling the globe to be in Boston in May of 2013, and thus have already made plans to move our main lecture hall to a newly renovated multi-tier auditorium.

Be sure to save the date now - hotels will fill fast with this event along with normal Boston traffic so start making plans now!

See you in Boston next May!!!

DR. MARVIN CHUN

Yale University 

TOPIC:  Vision Training - Making a Difference

Dr. Marvin Chun is Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology at Yale University, where he also serves as the John B. Madden Master of Berkeley College.  His laboratory employs functional brain imaging to study visual attention, memory, decision-making, perception, and performance. His research has been honored with early career awards from the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Psychological Association.   In Yale College his teaching has been recognized with the Lex Hixon Prize and the Phi Beta Kappa DeVane Medal. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the Vision Sciences Society and is now a scientific advisor for Nike SPARQ. 

BSMPG is proud to announce Dr. Rob Butler as a speaker within the popular Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Track at the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar - May 17th and 18th, 2013!  Dr. Rob Butler joins Dr. Stuart McGill and Marco Cardinale for this weekend event.  With the greatest speaker line-up assembled to date, the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar will be the WORLD'S most sought after Sports Medicine & Performance Seminar to date!!

We are expecting the largest crowd to date with speakers and attendees traveling the globe to be in Boston in May of 2013, and thus have already made plans to move our main lecture hall to a newly renovated multi-tier auditorium.

Be sure to save the date now - hotels will fill fast with this event along with normal Boston traffic so start making plans now!

See you in Boston next May!!!

DR. ROBERT BUTLER

Duke University

Robert Butler, DPT, PhD is currently an Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy at Duke University and a Clinical Researcher for Duke Health Systems. Previously, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Marietta College in 1999 and his Master of Science degree in Movement Science with a concentration in Biomechanics from Springfield College in 2001. He then received his PhD in Biomechanics and Movement Science from the University of Delaware in 2005. Following his PhD study, he completed a post-doc at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before completing my DPT at the University of Evansville.

Dr. Butler’s research has focused on the role of functional movement outcomes in identifying and addressing movement dysfunction as it relates to reducing injury risk, improving therapeutic outcomes, and reducing the rate of joint degeneration. He has presented abstracts at multiple national and international conferences and has a number of published of manuscripts in rehabilitation and biomechanical journals. Dr. Butler serves as a movement based outcomes consultant for a number of orthopedic and sports medicine groups nationally and internationally in populations ranging across the lifespan.

BSMPG is proud to bring the face of British Olympic Sport to Boston for the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar - May 17th and 18th, 2013!  Dr. Cardinale is one of the world's authority on sport preparation and performance and joins Dr. Stuart McGill as the second keynote speaker for this weekend event.  With the greatest speaker line-up assembled to date, the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar will be the WORLD'S most sought after Sports Medicine & Performance Seminar to date!!

We are expecting the largest crowd to date with speakers and attendees traveling the globe to be in Boston in May of 2013, and thus have already made plans to move our main lecture hall to a newly renovated multi-tier auditorium.

Be sure to save the date now - hotels will fill fast with this event along with normal Boston traffic so start making plans now!

See you in Boston next May!!!

MARCO CARDINALE

British Olympic Sport Association

Dr. Marco Cardinale is the Head of Sports Science and Research of the British Olympic Association. Dr. Cardinale is also the director of the Science and Research Unit of the British Olympic Medical Institute based in University College London, Institute of Sport Exercise and Health. Dr. Cardinale led the Sports Science activities for the preparation of Team GB at the Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games.

Dr. Cardinale is a former Handball coach and has been involved in coach education in various countries in the area of strength and conditioning and exercise physiology. A widely published and cited author in the scientific literature on various aspects of human performance, he has also patented an innovative exercise device consisting of an vibratory biofeedback system which received research awards from NEStech and the Scottish Design Council.

Dr. Cardinale holds honorary academic appointments at University College London in the division of surgical and interventional medicine, the University of Aberdeen in the School of Medical Sciences and a visiting professorship at the University of Genova. He has been an advisor to various companies (e.g. Polar Electro, Medisport and Technogym), government agencies (e.g. the European Space Agency, UK Sport and Higher Education Funding Council) and professional sport organizations and national governing bodies in 4 countries (USA, Italy, Spain, Sweden) before working in the UK. Dr. Cardinale has been invited speaker in scientific conferences and coaching clinics in 21 countries and has been ad-hoc reviewer for over 15 scientific journals and research grants agencies in the areas of sports science, physiology, biomechanics and bioengineering.

Dr Cardinale holds a B.Sc. from ISEF in Italy, an M.Sc. from the US Sports Academy in the USA and a PhD from Semmelweis University in Hungary.

Save the Date: May 17th and 18th, 2013 - BSMPG Summer Seminar