The Sports Sciences Residency Program (SSRP) was instituted in 1984.  This program permits Doctors of Chiropractic in private practice the opportunity to attain their post – graduate Sports Sciences Fellowship.  Centred on a specific program mandate overseen by the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences (Canada), the program has evolved over the years to create a chiropractic Sports specialty training program through post-secondary educational institutions across Canada.  Each program, under the direction of an approved Regional Coordinator, is uniquely designed to afford participants the most effective way to meet the program requirements.   Under the direction of the CCSS(C) Residency Committee, Regional Coordinators oversee the content and progress of both the program and the Residents enrolled in it.  With a minimum of 1000 hours of field work, academic focus on exercise physiology, sport nutrition, sport psychology, advanced imaging, sport specific research, acute and chronic injury management and sport administration training, the SSRP provides the most extensive sports specialty training in the chiropractic profession.  It is anticipated that completion of all program requirements should take approximately three to four years.   There will be variation depending on the format used by the candidate in taking the required material and completing the required practical hours.

 

Options for entering an approved Sports Sciences Residency Program are as follows:

 

1.  Applying to an approved local university (or Post-Secondary Institution) for a research faculty position in a sports-related venue including the required core courses for the SSRP curriculum. 

2.      Applying to a local university (or Post-Secondary Institution) for student status to audit the core academic course requirements of the curriculum.

3.      Applying to a local university (or Post-Secondary Institution) Masters or PhD program to complete the academic and research requirements of the curriculum.

4.      Apply to the CMCC Sports Sciences Residency Program meeting the requirements of the SSRP. 

 

The chiropractic sports sciences Resident, on successful completion of all requirements, is eligible to participate in the exiting sports fellowship examinations. 

 

Currently, the SSRP is available in selected regions. It is the goal of the CCSS(C) to institute and facilitate the program in all major cities in Canada where accredited university facilities and qualified Regional Coordinators are available.

 

          College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences [Canada]

It is the mandate of the CCSS(C) to provide the chiropractic profession with the most qualified Sports chiropractors worldwide through completion of this innovative program.  The CCSS(C) is continually reviewing the standardization of injury management protocols, rehabilitation, diagnostic and therapeutic terminology as well as public education and awareness initiatives.  Fellows of the CCSS(C) are active in maintaining awareness of current concepts, general health and wellness issues and performance conditioning by addressing biomechanical integrity and the physics of human motion.  Research in all aspects of the sports sciences as it relates to chiropractic is integrated into both the educational component of the program as well as encouraged throughout the sports specialist’s career.

Through the past efforts of the CCSS(C), Sports chiropractors now are part of the Canadian Core Health Care Teams for Major and Minor Games.  Minor or developmental games include the World University Games (Summer and Winter), World Francophone Games, Commonwealth Games and Canada Games (Summer and Winter).  Major Games include the Pan American Games, Paralympics (Summer and Winter) and Olympics (Summer and Winter).  Presently, the health care teams allot positions for sports chiropractors.  Furthermore, sports chiropractors are considered a valued partner in the multidisciplinary care of athletes, maintaining funding support for treatment/management of national level athletes from several Canadian Sport Centres across the country and through various National Sport Organizations.  As sport specialists with a unique view of the human body and its mechanics, we are now being approached to participate as part of the health care teams and organizations for a variety of national and international events, and participating in inter-professional sports sciences research.

 

The CCSS(C) maintains and encourages the highest standards and ethics of practice as a part of the chiropractic profession with a detailed “Code of Conduct” and “Guidelines for Chiropractors at Athletic Events” adopted by all CCSS(C) members and the Canadian Chiropractic Protective Association (CCPA).

 

The College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences (Canada) has become a leading organization in the chiropractic profession and in the Sports health care field nationally and internationally through the dedication of many chiropractors that have given of their time and expertise over the past two decades.