Sport Performance—Fad or Foundational?

Abstract

With this foundational understanding in place, I want to focus on how this model has helped to topple many of the walls and barriers that traditional sports health care professionals have put up through the years. Because I am employed at an institution of higher education that has a competitive intercollegiate athletics program in place, I will focus my thoughts on this environment for my commentary. [...]many institutions have transformed this process under the guise of sport performance with a leadership structure that involves a director and many of the traditional aspects of sports medicine, including athletic training, medicine, strength and conditioning, nutrition, and sport psychology, establishing the foundational platform of the model. [...]with the focus solely on what is best for the student-athlete, this approach has helped to consolidate and centralize care and do what is in the best interest of the population of athletes needing the attention.