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Per Gunnar Brolinson, D.O.Associate Dean for Clinical Research |
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| Discipline: | Sports Medicine | ||||
| Administrative Duties: | Co-Chair, VCOM Institutional Review Board and Human Subjects Committee |
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| Currently Teaching: | Principles of Primary Care / Sports Medicine Clinical Case Correlations Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine |
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| Academic Appointments: | Associate Dean for Clinical Research - VCOM Director of Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering - Virginia Tech Professor of Family Practice - VCOM Discipline Chair of Sports Medicine - VCOM Head Team Physician, Virginia Tech Team Physician - United States Ski and Snowboard Association Volunteer Physician - United States Olympic Committee |
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| Professional Appointments/ Memberships: |
Dean's Council Former Senior Editorial Board Member, Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine Editorial Board Member, JAOA Former Editorial Board Member, Current Sports Medicine Reports Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Virginia Osteopathic Medical Association North Carolina Osteopathic Medical Association Medical Society of Virginia Board Member, Center for Innovation in Construction Safety & Health Research, Blacksburg, VA AOASM, AMSSM, AOA, AODME, AAO, ACOFP, ACSM, AMA, AAFP, OSMA, OOA |
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| Honors and Awards: | Recipient of 2010 Beehler Research Mentor of the Year Award Named in America’s Top Family Physicians, 2008-2009 Edition William J. Legg D.O. Distinguished Lecture Award Olympic Sports Medicine Society, 2006 - Present Fellow, American College of Osteopathic Family Practice, 2006 Named in America's Top Family Physicians, 2004-2005 Edition Named Outstanding Young Physician by the Ohio State Medical Association Fellow of the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice Editorial Board Member, Current Sports Medicine Reports |
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| Recent Publications and Presentations: | Concussions in sports are a significant problem for today’s athletes, especially on the football field. Dr. Gunnar Brolinson, Associate Dean for Clinical Research, is conducting collaborative research with the Center for Injury Biomechanics at Virginia Tech to understand the biomechanical basis of mild traumatic brain injury and to develop better methods for detecting these injuries sooner. This long-term project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, involves the implementation and testing of special mechanical sensor inserts in Virginia Tech football player’s helmets, which detect the number, location and severity of head impacts during play. Based on a computerized system to monitor the impact data and correlate it with other physiometric data, Dr. Brolinson is able to determine when each player has received a head impact consistent with that causing mild traumatic brain injury, and intervene to prevent further potentially more severe injury to the player. This research will lead to better methods for detecting, preventing and treating sports-related concussion. Dr. Brolinson is co-author of several recent papers that have resulted from this research, including “Frequency and Locations of Head Impact Exposures in Individual Collegiate Football Players” [JATA. 2010 Dec; 45(6)], “Linear and angular head acceleration measurements in collegiate football” [J Biomech Eng. 2009 Jul; 131(6):061016], and “Correlating cumulative sub-concussive head impacts in football with player performance-biomed 2009” [Biomed Sci Instrum. 2009 Feb; 45:113-8]. He also contributed chapters to Foundations for Osteopathic Medicine Vol. 3 [Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkens, 2011], The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine [SAGE Publications, 2010], and The Hip and Pelvis in Sports Medicine and Primary Care [Springer, 2010]. Dr. Brolinson co-authored two recent sports medicine consensus statements including: "Sideline Preparedness for the Team Physician" (PDF) and "The Team Physician and Conditioning of Athletes for Sports" (PDF). Dr. Brolinson is a frequent presenter at national sports medicine meetings on subjects such as the biomechanical basis of mild traumatic brain injury, osteopathic manipulative therapy for athletic injuries, exercise, and his experiences as an Olympic physician. Sports News Videos (Video 1) (Video 2) The New York Times - September 16, 2010 Analyzing Hard Hits on the Football Field How do football players get concussions? They wear helmets, don’t they? |
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| Certifications: | Board Certified Family Practice Board Certification of Added Qualifications in Sports Medicine |
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| Additional Information: | Dr. Brolinson was the co-director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship training program at The Toledo Hospital in Toledo, Ohio and has extensive experience in post-graduate medical education. He was a head team physician for the Freestyle Ski Team at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy, and director of the Performance Services center at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancoucer British Columbia. Dr. Brolinson has served on the boards of the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and the Midwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine. He is a past president of the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine. He is a former associate editor for the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine and a former member of the editorial board of the Physician and Sports Medicine. He is former section editor for Competitive Sports and Pain Management in the Journal of Current Sports Medicine Reports. Dr. Brolinson is a frequent speaker at national sports medicine meetings and often teaches didactic laboratory sessions on the use of osteopathic manipulative therapy for athletic injuries and he has published several scholarly articles and book chapters in the area of sport and exercise medicine |
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