Performance Medicine of Southwest Virginia

09/09/2025

Recently Dr. Bolin was honored to be included in the Radford University Women’s Golf Ring Ceremony celebrating their 2025 Big South Championship. ⛳️ Coach Jeff Beeler honored Dr. Bolin’s request that he not be given a ring but rather a photo of one instead which the team could all sign and he could hang in his office. It was the first Radford Women’s Golf Conference Championship in school history, 🏆and it was a joy to celebrate such a fine group of talented, personable and gracious young women.🏌️‍♀️ Congratulations Lady Highlanders!

09/06/2025

On Saturday, the Roanoke College Maroons will play their first official football game in 83 years! On the sidelines, working with Head Coach Brian Stinespring, will be Head Athletic Trainer Keith Doolan and Dr. Bolin. These three were together over two decades ago on the sidelines for VA Tech during the spring game of 2003! Go Maroons!! 🏈

06/09/2025

The final stop on Dr. B’s recent “speaking tour” 😆 was the VOMA conference at King’s Mill. His talk was entitled “When Traditional Medicine Fails”. While he is a traditional allopathic MD, as his patients know, Dr. Bolin is also a powerful advocate of Osteopathic Medicine, particularly osteopathic manipulation. His lifelong learning has equipped him to be able to look at problems with different eyes and offer out-of-the-box treatments which often help where others have failed. He works together with others in the medical community to try to keep medicine patient-focused as it should be. “If the patient leaves your office not feeling they were taken care of…then they weren’t.”

06/03/2025

Last week Dr. Bolin was in Atlanta for the annual American College of Sports Medicine meeting. In addition to catching up with old classmates and colleagues, he was a commentator on several case presentations and helped teach osteopathic manipulation for the upper extremities in a sports injury course.

06/02/2025

The NCAA DII and DIII Women’s Lacrosse National Championships were held at Roanoke College’s Kerr Stadium during Memorial Day weekend. Dr. Bolin and the Roanoke College Athletic Training staff provided medical coverage for the event. Congratulations go to Division II champions University of Tampa and DIII champions Middlebury College. Well done, ladies! 👏🥍

06/02/2025

Dr. Bolin has been a busy guy these past two weeks! He kicked off his “tour” by speaking on May 22 at the Hotel Roanoke at the 75th Carilion Clinic Spring Symposium. His talk was entitled “The New Science of Exercise: Truths, Rumors and Outright Lies”. The main takeaway was that prolonged intense exercise is not necessary to reap health and longevity benefits. If you are able to sustain 5 times your resting metabolic rate (or 5 METS), that is enough. For a man, that is equivalent to walking 4 mph on a flat surface, and for a woman it is 3 mph; it is slightly slower for both if you are walking up hill on a 3% grade. The goal would be to do this 30 minutes a day, but the degree of effort is what matters most.

05/26/2025

Humbly and gratefully remembering all our fallen heroes today. 🙏 🇺🇸

A reminder the office is CLOSED today and all THIS WEEK so that Dr. Bolin can attend two conferences. The office staff will be in and out but all messages will be checked.

04/23/2025

There’s a lot to celebrate at Performance Medicine: Cheryl’s birthday, the 6th year anniversary of Candace joining the team, and Dr. B’s birthday!! Send them good wishes this week if you see them!!

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03/30/2025

Happy Doctor’s Day to Dr. Bolin and a special shoutout to Dr. Chuck Ball! These two are seen together with Joe and Friends in the photos below playing to a crowd at the Roanoke Country Club on Friday night! 🎶 Dr. Ball has been playing live music with Joe Crawford, Rick Zarlengo, and Deet Reed for many years. 🎸 Dr. Bolin has been playing…or rather singing 🎤…live music with them for about 48 hours! 😆 He had a blast!

03/09/2025

Dr. Bolin has traveled to the Big South Tournament in Johnson City, TN this weekend to provide medical coverage for both the Radford men’s and women’s basketball teams. The men made it to the semi-finals but lost narrowly to top-ranked High Point earlier today. Tip-off for the women’s semi-final game against Longwood was just minutes ago. Go Highlanders!!

02/19/2025

Those of you with appointments today should be contacted for rescheduling. We are so sorry for the inconvenience!

02/09/2025

Today Dr. Bolin had the honor of being the invited guest speaker for the Men’s Soccer Awards Banquet at his Alma mater, Millersville University. When Coach Widdowson came to MU twenty years ago, he began the tradition of inviting an alum of the program to give the keynote speech. Dr. B’s remarks were met with laughter and kind words, probably because he met his goals of keeping it engaging, humerous, and short! 😆He greatly enjoyed meeting some of the current generation of players as well as the coaching staff, a quality group of mentors who clearly emphasize not only skill in competition but commitment, growth, and community both on and off the pitch. The program has grown exponentially in quality since Dr. B was a goalie in the mid-80’s, and it was encouraging to see. Continued good luck to the Marauders!