UPFRONT | From the editor Performance framework in this issue for our sports-centric cover story, we’re featuring frequent contributor Erik Klein, as well as a colleague from Town Health Solutions and their experience at ALTIS in Arizona. ALTIS offers internship and performance programs for therapists and coaches, and both practitioners attended. As an organization, the centre places a strong emphasis on educa-tion around sport performance, including “performance therapy.” This performance therapy framework enables both private practitioners and multi-disciplinary clinic owners to realize a new thought process of how to treat patients. Despite the fact that ALTIS focuses on track and field, the overall approach makes sense for any athlete, as well as “weekend warriors” or amateurs alike. “Performance therapy involves bringing brief manual and therapeutic in-terventions directly into the practice setting, allowing for the opportunity to make immediate improvements to movement patterns. It requires collabora-tion between the coach, therapist, and athlete, otherwise known as the ‘per-formance trinity,’” the authors say. With the 2020 Olympics here, this idea of a “performance trinity” was an “aha!” moment for me. As a figure skater, I didn’t realize until I read this article that this idea is what allowed me to really excel at the sport I was (once) in. At 14, my first experience of manual therapy opened my eyes to the “per-formance trinity.” It amazed me that just one chiropractic appointment could reinvigorate me – make me feel immediately better and therefore, more excited to get back on the ice...because I could. No longer did I have to sit out a practice session due to knee issues or sore shoulders. The Olympic games is a time when sideline specialists – athletic trainers, massage therapists, and chiropractors – are highlighted as necessary for the success of a professsional athlete. When I had first started competing, I wasn’t aware of the real impact an injury could have – until I got one. The amount of times I fell, the bruises I had, the warm-ups, the practices and the perfor-mances – I could always count on my chiropractor or massage therapist to get me back where I needed to be. Whether it’s track, swimming, basketball or figure skating, coaches are there to guide, watch, react and fix or tweak. But the coaches and athletes need the healthcare practitioners--they need YOU. February 2020 Volume 25, Number 1 EDITOR Jannen Belbeck [email protected] (888) 599-2228 x. 211 PUBLISHER Christine Livingstone [email protected] (519) 429-5173 • (888) 599-2228 ext. 239 ACCOUNT COORDINATOR Morgen Balch [email protected] (888) 599-2228 ext. 219 MEDIA DESIGNER Alison Keba CIRCULATION MANAGER Anita Madden GROUP PUBLISHER/VP SALES Martin McAnulty [email protected] COO Scott Jamieson [email protected] Published and printed by Annex Business Media, 105 Donly Drive South, Simcoe, ON, Canada N3Y 4N5 Publication Mail Agreement #40065710 ISSN 1488-6952 CIRCULATION e-mail: [email protected] Tel: (416) 510-5183 Fax: (416) 416-510-6875 (main) 416-442-2191 Mail: 111 Gordon Baker Rd., Suite 400, Toronto, ON M2H 3R1 Annex Privacy Officer [email protected] Tel: 800-668-2384 Canadian Chiropractor is published eight times a year: February, April, May, June, July/August, September, October and December. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada – 1 Year $26.00, 2 years $42.00, 3 years $60.00 (HST #867172652RT0001) USA – 1 Year $46.00 (US Funds) Occasionally, Canadian Chiropractor will mail information on behalf of industry-related groups whose products and services we believe may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive this information, please contact our circulation department in any of the four ways listed above. No part of the editorial content of this publication may be reprinted without the publisher’s written permission. JANNEN BELBECK, Editor @CanChiropractor /CanadianChiropractor @canchiropractor Use the hashtag #canadianchiropractor (or tag us) for a chance to be featured in a future issue! ©2020 Annex Publishing & Printing Inc. All rights reserved. Opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the editor or the publisher. No liability is assumed for errors or omissions. All advertising is subject to the publisher’s approval. Such approval does not imply any endorsement of the products or services advertised. Publisher reserves the right to refuse advertising that does not meet the standards of the publication. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Victoria Coleman, DC; Connie J. D’Astolfo, DC, Dip HA, PhD (cand); Pierre DesLauriers, DC; Don Nixdorf, DC; Greg Stewart, BPE, DC 4 Canadian Chiropractor February 2020 www.canadianchiropractor.ca
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