Sports Medicine Institute International

Education: smi's education program is displayed in many different ways. First, the education of advanced manual therapists in trigger point therapy, myofascial release, neural mobilization, active release therapy, joint mobilization, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, graston technique, muscle taping, active stretching, and other manual aspects of orthopedic massage therapy for the benefit of our clients and the general public. Also through our athletic education program and recovery center. Our athletic education program works one-on-one educating clients on proper techniques and strength programs to help maximize performance both athletically and in their daily lives. We also give free group talks on injury prevention to various large groups throughout the bay area. We donate thousands of hours of educational advice to our community, we donate many phlx rollers, which have been shown to drastically reduce injuries and treat soft tissue disorders to those who can't afford them and can't regularly visit the clinic. Third, our recovery center, which is offered free of charge, offers a valuable service to our community. Proper education around recovery will help the body repair and rejuvenate, which is important to staying healthy and pain-free. Our use of medbridge is an online training tool for our therapists as well as a service to our clients to continue providing education at home.

Research: to promote research, clinical development, and delivery to the public of functional health services, nutrition, and advanced manual therapy treatments, particularly in the fields of injury prevention, injury rehabilitation, and athletic performance. Smi's research is also demonstrated through our athletic education program and recovery center (see part b). Research is also done by our eastern medicine department to see how acupuncture helps people with recovery from post-surgical procedures as well as for performance. This year the emphasis of the research was done on dry needling. Dry needling is a technique specific to trigger points. It is a modality that is in high demand in the athletic community and is often prescribed by md's and physical therapists. We have 15 advanced manual therapists who have been continuing education within their training. We hold educational clinics free of charge for our therapists as well as many teams in the area. We donate over 400 hours to various groups and to individuals that we feel can really benefit from our services. That works out to be about $80,000 worth of revenue.mark fadil's book on foam rolling, a previous research project, has provided a core concise way to visualize and perform multiple exercises to help enhance one's health and well-being. About 75,000 have been sold to date. Our long-term goal is still to set up an education center to educate practitioners. This past tax period our director has participated in the acusport education and sports acupuncture program (sma). This course has helped treat injuries from a true integrated perspective which is very state of the art in this field and has helped many people in our community.