Sport PT)
Ed is a US board certified clinical specialist in both Orthopaedics & Sport Physical Therapy, has his Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy (Sports Physiotherapy Canada), and has been practicing for almost 25 years in sports & orthopaedics. Ed is a Resident of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physical Therapy, and is also a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and an Emergency Medical Response for the Athlete (ERA) instructor. While working at the RWJ Sports Physical Therapy & Performance Center (aka “the Ballpark”), Ed draws from a vast array of manual therapy skills acquired from years of post-graduate education (soft tissue release, McKenzie Technique, Mulligan Concept, etc.), and incorporates cutting edge techniques such as Kinesio Taping & Graston. Combined with detailed patient-specific exercise prescriptions, each patient receives the highest level of care, with the goal of achieving optimal recovery & performance in the shortest amount of time. Prior to joining the Ballpark in 2008, Ed was living in the Washington, DC area, where for 4 years he worked with Washington Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine (WOSM); the physician group that have been the team doctors for the Washington Wizards [NBA], Capitals [NHL], and Nationals [MLB] for over 20 years. Prior to joining WOSM, Ed worked for five years at the University of Toronto, where he was the head therapist for the university's varsity wrestling, men's rugby, and men's ice hockey teams, and had also worked a few seasons with both the men's & women's lacrosse teams. Apart from his experience in working intercollegiate sports, Ed has also covered international sporting events such as the 2001 World (Israel) and 2003 Pan American (Chile) Maccabi Games, the 2008 Paralympics (Beijing), 2010 Winter Olympic Games (Vancouver), 2011 & 2017 FISU games, and was the chief therapist for the 2003 Canadian Open Paralympic Championships, the 2007 ParaPan American Games (Brazil), and Lead Medical Practitioner for boxing at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. Ed has also done physio coverage for numerous Canadian national teams (rugby, athletics, wrestling), which has taken him all over North America and to Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Spain, Finland, Turkey, Guatemala, and Croatia. In the US, he was the head therapist for the Potomac Athletic Club (PAC) of the US Rugby Super League (RSL) for 4 years, and was also the DC area medical coordinator for USA Rugby. When patients are looking for advanced sports rehabilitation, it is important to find therapists with experience working with the highest level athletes. Ed has over two decades of experience working with professional, Olympic, and national team athletes, as well as many NCAA Division I football, basketball, lacrosse, and soccer players. Having also played a contact sport (rugby) himself for 20 years, gives him a distinct perspective on contact running sports, allowing him to personally relate to athletes with almost any injury, and understand the demands and pressures that they are under. Edison is a member of both Sport Physiotherapy Canada (SPC) and the Sports Physical Therapy Section (SPTS) of the American Physical Therapy Association. He is the SPTS State Representative for New Jersey, and had previously held the same appointment for both Maryland & DC. In Canada, Ed was chair of Sports Physiotherapy Ontario, and was an appointed clinical lecturer at the University of Toronto. He also held an academic appointment at George Washington University (DC). Ed has authored many articles in Momentum, the official publication of Sports Physiotherapy Canada, and is an examiner in SPCs post-graduate education/credentials system. In 2012, Ed was appointed to the Specialization Academy of Content Experts of the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties, where he will help advance the clinical specialty of sports physical therapy. Ed graduated from the University of Toronto's Physical Therapy program following a Life Sciences degree from Queen's University, both for which he played varsity rugby for. He has also completed his Doctorate in Physical Therapy (Arcadia University).
