Resource Directory

from CASEM’s ‘Ask the Expert’ series with Dr. Darrell Menard

This list was developed to raise awareness about the need to use limited health care resources wisely.

Specific recommendations for homebased physical training (21 April, 2020)

World Rowing interview with Carla Edwards, Sport Psychiatrist

By Drs. Carla Edwards and Jane Thornton for the BJSM blog.

Access to physical activity and exercise should be a key recommendation in ensuring the health of Canadians during the evolving COVID-19 situation. Physical distancing, and ‘stay at home’ or ‘shelter in place’ orders, have been crucial interventions in the COVID-19 global pandemic.

This document provides a guideline for National Sport Organizations (NSOs), National Development (i.e.,NextGen), and Provincial Sport Organizations (PSOs) teams regarding return to health and performance following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19) infection in the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute (COPSI) Network.

From the NSO Sharing Centre from the Canadian Olympic Committee

It must be ensured that risk assessment is conducted with input from local public health authorities, and preferably personnel with expertise in risk assessment, epidemiology, and infectious disease control measures are included from the initial stages of planning.

This tool has been adapted specifically for return to training planning in the Canadian context and should be discussed with your CMO or SMAC members.

Help sport event organizers to review the additional considerations specific to sporting events involving mass participation, and thus inform their risk assessment of COVID-19 associated with the event.

The development and implementation of Canada’s COVID–19 Return to High Performance Sport Framework is based on and will be guided by public health expertise and advice and grounded in the values and principles for sport contained in the Canadian Sport Policy.

This joint message is from the Sport Medicine Advisory Committee comprised of Chief Medical Officers from the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Paralympic Committee, and the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute Network (COPSIN). It is meant to guide Canadian high performance athletes and National Sport Organizations (NSOs) with respect to support services and advised behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. This advisory is updated as necessary and distributed to NSOs and other high performance sport partners.