Blog / News

CSM was the best ever…@8400 attendees! I have to admit, my favorite day was Tuesday the 10…my birthday! We slipped out of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and played golf at Paiute GC…Windy, cold….but it was good golfing with my buddies! We did attend classes later in the day. That night, we saw the Elton John concert at The Coliseum at Caesars Palace….awesome show and great birthday.

The rest of the conference was not bad. There are some really great speakers coming up in the Section and it was good to hear them. I serve as VP of the JOSPT. We had a terrific members meeting and then Board meeting. JOSPT is one of the best Journals around. The Sports Section really looks after its members: Three journals….North America Sports Physical Therapy and Sport Health as well as JOSPT.

The Awards Ceremony was awesome. Two of our faculty won awards: Mike Voight as Educator of the Year and Danny Smith won the big one: The Ron Peyton Award. It was great to see Ron there…founder and first president of SPTS! NASMI is very proud of these two faculty members!

Next year: San Diego!

CSM is in the Mandalay Bay Hotel…same one the TV show Vegas was modeled after. There are over 7000 PT/PTA’s registered…it’s a big meeting. It is only a few days but things are hopping! The Sports Section had several pre-conference programs going on: one on the shoulder, NASMI’s own Danny Smith instructed an Emergency Responder course, and Mike and I were involved with the TPI Level 1 and 2. I was just eye candy for the course but Mike taught 50% of Level 2. You may not know but our SFMA course has much of the Level 2 screening material. If you take our course, Level 2 classes will be a piece of cake! As usual, the TPI guys….Greg, Dave, Lance, Joe, Ruben, Jason and many of their other teammates were there. Great class fellows!

Of course Vegas does have night life….but probably not appropriate for this Blog. I would add: go to the Minus 5 Bar for a really cold drink!!