Banff Sport Medicine Foundation

The banff sport medicine foundation (bsmf) continued its commitment to advancing research education and community outreach in sport medicine and musculoskeletal health throughout the 2023-2024 financial year. Bsmf established a new sentinel goal focused on secondary injury prevention to strive to eliminate recurrent musculoskeletal injuries. This new overarching goal will guide the bsmf’s education and research vision and strategy for the next five years 2024-2029. Bsmf built on existing relationships with community provincial and national organizations to deliver injury prevention and treatment education. Our online patient library and electronic newsletter which focus on musculoskeletal injury management achieved significant growth with numerous contributions from our expert team and medical and allied health students. Bsmf’s education activities also included training 28 healthcare professionals and students 8 international clinical research conference presentations and 9 community and healthcare provider education sessions. In terms of clinical research bsmf contributed 12 peer-reviewed publications to further knowledge translation and evidence-based practice during the 2023-24 year. Our team continued participating in research studies including acl injury surgeries novel patellofemoral instability treatments shoulder dislocations ankle sprains concussion surveillance and osteoarthritis. Looking forward to 2024-25 bsmf will continue to lead our world-class research and education program delivery to benefit our local provincial and national communities as well as global arthroscopy and sport medicine.