From Pain to Performance A Systems-Based Approach to Sports Injurie

Session Information

Regional Event: sw
Start Date: 11/21/2026 10:10 am
End Date: 11/21/2026 11:50 am
Location: Royal Tern Ballroom

Speakers in this session...

  • Christine Foss

    Sponsors

    Christine Foss MD, DC, MS.ED. ATC, DACBSP, DACRB, ICSC

    Dr. Christine Foss has a Master’s degree in Sports Medicine from Old Dominion University, a Doctorate in Chiropractic from New York Chiropractic College, and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Health Sciences. She is a Certified Athletic Trainer, a Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians, a Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Rehabilitation Board, and an Internationally Certified Sports Chiropractor. She was named the 2020 American Chiropractic Association Sports Council Chiropractor of the Year and the 2023 Federation of International Sports Chiropractic Educator of the Year.

    Author of the book “Dissecting Sports Injuries of the Hip”, which has recently been released by Springer Publishing and is available on Amazon.

    Dr. Foss has had many experiences treating and rehabilitating athletes and non-athletes. She is the owner of Elite Sports Recovery Center in Bradenton, Florida. She worked in the Sports Medicine Department at the University of Notre Dame and volunteered at the Olympic Training Camps multiple times at different locations. She has worked at the World Games in Poland and Birmingham and the Bobsleigh World Championships.  She additionally traveled with TEAMUSATF as medical staff and has worked extensively with men’s and women’s gymnastics. She has additionally worked alongside prominent surgeons in caring for and rehabilitating athletic injuries.

    Dr. Foss is an international lecturer on the topics of sports injury, assessment, treatment, and kinetic chain unwinding. Dr Foss finds particular interest in difficult cases and patients who have had little success with conventional care. She is currently the director and lead instructor of the Northeast Chiropractic College “Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician” program, the Director of Education and research for Foot Levelers, and a Master Instructor for the Federation Internationale de Chiropractique du Sport and faculty at the Camera Institute of Chiropractic Science.

    Sessions...

    From Pain to Performance A Systems-Based Approach to Sports Injurie
    Regional Event: sw
    Start Date: 11/21/2026 10:10 am
    End Date: 11/21/2026 11:50 am
    Location: Royal Tern Ballroom
    Session details

    Sports injuries are rarely isolated events. Behind every pain presentation lies a cascade of kinetic chain adaptations, neuromuscular compensations, and load-management failures that extend far beyond the site of pain.

    This course reframes sports injury management through a systems lens — equipping Doctor of Chiropractic with evidence-based tools to identify kinetic chain faults, interpret movement and gait observations, and build progressive return-to-performance plans for their athletic patients.

    Three integrated modules move from conceptual foundation to clinical assessment to load-progressive rehabilitation — bridging the gap between pain relief and genuine performance restoration.

    Learning Objectives: 

    By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

    1. Apply a systems-based kinetic chain framework to classify and explain sports injuries. Distinguish primary fault segments from compensatory pain sites using current biomechanics and motor control evidence. 
    1. Conduct a structured systems-based clinical assessment of the athletic patient. Perform observational gait analysis, segmental movement screening, and kinetic chain fault identification. 
    1. Identify and interpret muscle sequencing faults and gait deviations relevant to common sports injuries. Correlate observed patterns with their neuromuscular and biomechanical sources across the kinetic chain. 
    1. Design a systems-informed, load-progressive return-to-performance plan. Apply load management science and phase-based rehabilitation frameworks to common sports presentations. 
    1. Communicate findings within a multidisciplinary, patient-centred framework. Formulate referral criteria, co-management strategies, and shared return-to-performance goals. 

    Sponsors– American Chiropractic Rehabilitation Board and American College of Chiropractic Orthopedists

    Practical Assessment of the Lower Extremity for the Sports Chiropractor
    Regional Event: sw
    Start Date: 11/21/2026 12:30 pm
    End Date: 11/21/2026 2:10 pm
    Location: Amberjack
    Session details

    This course will explore the athlete in motion. Diving into the mechanisms of injury, biomechanical factors, and structural faults that predispose an athlete to injury.  Exploring assessment skills in the dissection of sport injuries of the hip, knee, ankle, and foot.  As the course progresses, treatment concepts and rehabilitation protocols for the top sports injuries will be discussed and demonstrated.

    Learning Objectives

    1. The learner will understand how understanding the mechanisms of injury will lead the physician towards a more accurate diagnosis and hence an effective treatment regimen. 
    2. The learner will understand the difference between biomechanical factors and structural faults as predisposing factors in sports injuries of the hip
    3. The learner will gain knowledge of functional assessment tools to assist in diagnosing sports injuries of the lower extremity
    4. The learner will gain knowledge of the rehabilitation concepts and flow as the athlete returns to activity. 

    Sponsor – Y&S Sport Seminars

Sports injuries are rarely isolated events. Behind every pain presentation lies a cascade of kinetic chain adaptations, neuromuscular compensations, and load-management failures that extend far beyond the site of pain.

This course reframes sports injury management through a systems lens — equipping Doctor of Chiropractic with evidence-based tools to identify kinetic chain faults, interpret movement and gait observations, and build progressive return-to-performance plans for their athletic patients.

Three integrated modules move from conceptual foundation to clinical assessment to load-progressive rehabilitation — bridging the gap between pain relief and genuine performance restoration.

Learning Objectives: 

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Apply a systems-based kinetic chain framework to classify and explain sports injuries. Distinguish primary fault segments from compensatory pain sites using current biomechanics and motor control evidence. 
  1. Conduct a structured systems-based clinical assessment of the athletic patient. Perform observational gait analysis, segmental movement screening, and kinetic chain fault identification. 
  1. Identify and interpret muscle sequencing faults and gait deviations relevant to common sports injuries. Correlate observed patterns with their neuromuscular and biomechanical sources across the kinetic chain. 
  1. Design a systems-informed, load-progressive return-to-performance plan. Apply load management science and phase-based rehabilitation frameworks to common sports presentations. 
  1. Communicate findings within a multidisciplinary, patient-centred framework. Formulate referral criteria, co-management strategies, and shared return-to-performance goals. 

Sponsors– American Chiropractic Rehabilitation Board and American College of Chiropractic Orthopedists