The Founder’s Statement - 陈博士体能康复

Dr.Bob Chen

Dr.Bob Chen Sports Training and Rehab Center

“I started sports training at an amateur sports school at the age of six, from weightlifting to swimming, from swimming to water polo, and finally entered a professional sports team. Family, the influence of society, as well as my school education helped me to lay a very solid foundation for sports. At that time, my uncle was a sports injury specialist in Chinese medicine orthopedics, and this allowed me to be nurtured in an environment of sports medicine from an early age. This period had a great impact on my study and work later on. During my sports career, due to my physical condition and sports injuries, I had no choice but to give up professional sports team training prematurely.

In 1978, as one of the earliest groups of students after the Cultural Revolution, I entered the Beijing Sport University to study. After graduation, I spent three years working at the Guangxi Sports Research Institute. In order to pursue more advanced studies and methods in rehabilitation, in addition to witnessing too many athletes and sports enthusiasts lose their sports dreams due to injuries, in 1985 I decided to go to America, and started my long overseas study and work experience. I received two master's degrees, a dual doctoral degree, and a post-doctoral degree, respectively.

In 1996, I became a professor in the Department of Rehabilitation at New York University, and began to return to the motherland regularly to give lectures on rehabilitation. In 1997, I started to work for the Ninth Shanghai National Sports Meet, and from then on I was continuously involved with working at the Tenth Guangzhou National Sports Meet, and the Eleventh Jiangsu National Sports Meet. In 2001, in order to assist with the Beijing 2008 Olympics, I decided to give up America's preferential treatments and life style and returned to China. In order to cultivate advanced rehabilitation personnel, I created our nation's first MPT Department (Master of Physical Therapy) at Tongji Medical College. Meanwhile, I worked at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and was committed to promoting the concept of physical rehabilitation. Then, I participated in the 2004 Athens Olympics and the security and protection work of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. At the end of 2009, I resigned from my faculty position at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and came to Beijing for the development and promotion of physical rehabilitation.”

Dr. Bob Chen and Physical Rehabilitation

● Dr. Bob Chen is the first Chinese rehabilitation specialist who was an athlete, and has a heritage of traditional Chinese medicine and understands advanced overseas rehabilitation techniques.

● Dr. Bob Chen has brought the concept of physical rehabilitation into China for the first time, with a solid theoretical basis and a practical approach.

● Dr. Bob Chen has treated sports injuries for a variety of people over the past twenty years, and has accumulated a great deal of experiences in the clinical sports rehabilitation field.

● Dr. Bob Chen's case-based teaching and training have made the whole physical rehabilitation system more complete.

● Dr. Bob Chen is currently working with a number of well-known universities, and creating a study in physical rehabilitation.

Mliestones in Dr. Bob Chen's Physical Rehabilitation Career

1982 – Beijing, China
Bachelor’s Degree at Beijing Sport University

1989 – Texas, U.S.
Master's Degree at Texas Christian University

1993 – Oregon, U.S.
Dual Doctoral Degree of sports medicine and biomechanics at University of Oregon

1993 – Texas, U.S.
Master’s Degree at Texas Women's University

1996 – Texas, U.S.
American postdoctoral rehabilitation researcher at the National Institute of Health

1996 – New York, U.S.
Professor in the Department of Physical Rehabilitation at New York University
Starting to gather ideas of more advanced systems and methods in the field of sports injury rehabilitation.

1997 – The Eighth National Sports Meet, Shanghai, China
Dr. Chen applied advanced physical rehabilitation concepts on top notch professional athletes. After the Shanghai Sports Meet, he continued to participate in preparation for the following 3 consecutive National Sports Meets. The System of Physical Rehabilitation is on its way to maturity.

2001 – Guangdong, China
The Ninth National Sports Meet

2004 – The Twenty-eighth Summer Olympics, Athens, Greece
Dr. Bob Chen created China's first physical rehabilitation team and participated in preparation for the Athens Olympics as a specially invited expert by the State Sports General Administration.

2005 – Xiangsu, China
The Tenth National Sports Meet

2008 – The Twenty-ninth Summer Olympics, Beijing, China
Dr. Bob Chen was hired as an invited expert for the Beijing Olympics and the National Medical Expert Group. The concept of physical rehabilitation began rapidly spreading in China, and has become a hot topic and development direction for competitive sports, public health and medical rehabilitation

2010 – The Twenty-first Winter Olympics, Vancouver, Canada
Dr. Bob Chen and his team shifted their focus to preparation for the Vancouver Winter Olympics, providing comprehensive protection for the national short track speed skating team, which swept four gold medals.

2011 – Beijing, China
Dr. Bob Chen's Sports Training and Rehabilitation (STaR) Studio was established.
The physical rehabilitation class for the first retired athletes started.

2012 – The Thirtieth Summer Olympics, London, England
Dr. Chen and his team were once again hired by the State Sports General Administration to participate in preparation for the London Olympics to provide protection from injuries for the Chinese sports delegation.

2013 – Beijing, China
The Chinese Basketball Association named Dr. Chen's STaR Studio the Strategic Partner for the Chinese Basketball Association.

2014 – Sochi, Russia
The International Administration of Sports Management Center named Dr. Chen's STaR Studio the cooperating unit for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Dr. Chen was named deputy head of the expert group for the 2014 Winter Olympics.