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BSMPG is proud to announce the addition of Ben Prentiss as a speaker within the Sports Fusion Track at the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar - May 17th and 18th, 2013!  Ben joins legendary track coach Randall Huntingon and keynote speakers, Dr. Stuart McGill, Marco Cardinale, Fergus Connolly, Adriaan Louw 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!!!

BEN PRENTISS, B.S. PICP Level 5

Prentiss Hockey Performance

Strength and conditioning coach Ben Prentiss has been working with professional and Olympic hockey players for over 14 years. Ben's unique training system encompasses speed, strength, power, agility, and flexibility, along with body composition and nutrition. This approach has allowed athletes to achieve their personal goals and reach optimal physical shape. Ben opened his own training facility, Bodytuning, twelve years ago in Darien, CT. Bodytuning, home of Prentiss Hockey Performance, is a 2,000 square foot gym containing unique equipment that has helped produce three Stanley Cup winners, NHL All-Stars, a Hart Trophy winner, and a Hobey Baker finalist .

Over the years Ben has trained professional hockey players on 21 of 30 NHL teams as well as members of the OHL, QMJHL, USHL, AHL, DEL (German Ice Hockey League), NLA (National League A Switzerland), FEL (Finnish Elite League), NCAA, Olympics, and World Championships. Ben's off-season training program has been recommended by coaches, advisors, and agents. Over two dozen media outlets have featured Ben's training techniques with his athletes, including Sports Illustrated, Men's Health, Fox Sports, and The Hockey News.

Prior to BodyTuning becoming a destination for athletes, Ben spent the off-season months in Scottsdale, Arizona at Poliquin Performance Center training NHL and NFL athletes. Ben's expertise in training is exemplified by a Level V certification with world-renowned strength coach Charles Poliquin. Based on the trainer's education and experience a Level V trainer must train a medalist at the international level and consequently Ben is one of a few trainers world wide with this credential.

BSMPG is proud to announce the addition of Randall Huntington as a speaker within the Sports Fusion Track at the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar - May 17th and 18th, 2013!  Randall joins keynote speakers, Dr. Stuart McGill, Marco Cardinale, Fergus Connolly, Adriaan Louw 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!!!

RANDALL HUNTINGTON

Michigan State / United States Track & Field

Topic: Developing Power

Randy Huntington, a native of Walled Lake, Mich., is in his first season on the Spartan track and field staff. Huntington, who has almost three decades of experience coaching professional and amateur athletes, will coach MSU's jumpers.

Huntington is rated as a USATF Master Coach - a coach who has guided multiple medalists in multiple Olympics and World Championships - in the jumps, one of only seven in the U.S. He has been the coach for many world-class track and field athletes over the years, including eight Olympians and seven World Championship Team members. Overall, he has coached and consulted 17 Olympians from various sports. Mike Powell and Willie Banks set world records in the long jump and triple jump, respectively, while under his tutelage. Seven of his athletes have been in the U.S. all-time top ten in their respective events.

Huntington coached Powell to the Olympic Games in 1988, 1992 and 1996, where Powell won a pair of silver medals in the long jump. On Aug. 30, 1991 in Tokyo, Powell broke Bob Beamon's 23-year-old long jump record that was expected to never be broken, leaping 29-4 1/2 (8.95m) - a record that still stands. Powell also claimed a gold medal at the 1991 and 1993 World Championships and a silver medal at the 1995 World Championships.

Willie Banks, who Huntington coached to the 1988 Olympics, broke the world triple jump record with a mark of 58-11 1/2 (17.97m) on June 16, 1985 in Indianapolis, and under Huntington's coaching twice jumped over 18 meters, which is the longest in American history.

In addition to Powell and Banks, Huntington coached Olympians Joe Greene (long jump bronze medal in 1992), Sheila Hudson (American indoor and outdoor record-holder in the triple jump), Al Joyner, Darren Plab, Tony Nai and Sharon Couch. At least one of his athletes has competed in every summer Olympic Games since 1984. Powell, Greene, Hudson, Couch and Nai were all World Championship team members that he coached, along with Kathy Rounds and Kenta Bell.

From April of 2002 to November of 2003, Huntington was USA Track & Field's first ever Sport Science Technical Coordinator. Recently, he was one of three individuals selected for the master dartfish training program at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Huntington has also been a head and assistant coach for horizontal jumps for the ARCO Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.

Outside of working with USA Track and Field, Huntington served as Director of Sports Performance for the Bellingham Athletic Club and for Gold Medal Management. He also worked as a research coordinator and training specialist for Keiser Sports Health Equipment for seven years, and was responsible for emphasis in strength training for the aging and use of Keiser in training of elite athletes.

Not limited to just track and field, Huntington has trained professional athletes in other sports, notably football. He served as a conditioning and/or speed consultant for several teams including Indianapolis, St. Louis, Miami, Denver, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, and tutored numerous individual players including Trace Armstrong, Terry Kirby, Henry Ellard and Ed McCaffrey. He has worked with college football programs at Florida, Oklahoma and Notre Dame, and instructed athletes such as Kyle Turely and Grant Wistrom at the NFL combine.

Huntington has worked with some of the most famous athletes in the world, including notable performers such as hockey's Wayne Gretzky, baseball's Gary Carter and Rex Hudler and tennis' Michael Chang.

His previous collegiate experience includes a stint as assistant women's track and field coach at Cal-Berkeley from 1984-86, where he went to a program that had no NCAA qualifiers, and promptly had one qualifier his first year and five his second. He graduated from Oregon, where he served as a volunteer assistant coach for the men's track and field team for five seasons from 1978-83.

A Neuroscience Approach to Low Back Pain in Athletes

Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD (c), M.App.Sc (Physio)

Course Description:

Low back pain (LBP) is common in athletes. Most therapeutic interventions focus on structural issues such and instability or hypermobility and result in treatment associated with spinal stabilization. This presentation, however, is designed to updated attendees on the brain’s processing of LBP in athletes, with an emphasis on LBP, brain processing and its potential effect on sports performance. New research into the brain’s processing of pain has shown that not only sensory areas of the brain processes pain, but key areas associated with sports performance, such as the motor, pre-motor, amygdala and more are significantly active when LBP is experienced. Given the brain’s priority of processing pain, many of these key areas associated with optimum performance is less likely to contribute to the athletes recovery and may play a significant role in potential performance loss and re-injury. The neuromatrix view of LBP is a true bio-psycho-social view of pain and essential for physical therapists treating athletes. Clinicians need to realize that addressing issues such as fear, anxiety, expectations and pain itself, are all important in delivering optimal recovery in athletes with LBP. This presentation will include discussion of motor control, endocrine system, and immune system and more, all in relation to a brain’s processing of pain in athletes.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this educational session the participants will be able to:

1. Understand how the brain processes low back pain

2. Understand how an athlete dealing with pain, ultimately utilizes areas of the brain associated with sports performance, thus impacting their recovery

3. Identify bio-psycho-social factors associated with the development of LBP in athletes

4. Develop strategies, based on the neuromatrix, on how the manage athletes with LBP

5. Apply the information from the educational session into clinical practice

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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!!

Click below to see highlights from our 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar featuring Keynote Speaker, Bill Knowles.

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

A special thanks again to our SPONSORS!

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, Adriaan 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!

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 bringing Dr. Stuart McGill back to Boston for the 2013 BSMPG Summer Seminar - May 17th and 18th, 2013!  If you were here in Boston with us the last time Dr. McGill lectured you'll remember that he presented to a packed house and this year will be no exception.  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!!!

STU MCGILL, PHD

University of Waterloo

Stuart McGill is a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo. He has been the author of over 200 scientific publications that address the issues of low back function, injury mechanisms, development of evidence-based rehabilitation and performance exercise, diagnosis, and the formulation of injury avoidance strategies. As a consultant, he has provided low back expertise to various government agencies, many corporations, elite athletes and teams from many countries, and legal firms. Working at the interface between basic foundational science and clinical practice, he is one of the few scientists who is regularly asked for consult by the medical community regarding particularly difficult back cases, and by world-class athletes from around the world.

Visit Dr. McGill's website for more information on his work by clicking HERE.

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

Complete details coming soon! Check back to bsmpg.com in the near future.

This will be an event that you do not want to miss!!

Click below to see highlights from our 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar featuring Joel Jamieson.

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

A special thanks again to our SPONSORS!

Click below to see highlights from our 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar featuring Jose Fernandez who travelled from the UK to be with us and present.

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

A special thanks again to our SPONSORS!