VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – SportMedBC his celebrating its 30th anniversary.

The organization has come a long since 1982, when the general treatment for a concussion was pop an Advil. Lots of what used to be considered career ending injuries for athletes aren’t career ending anymore.

President Lynda Cannell says one of their big achievements is there are way fewer people in the medical tent at the Sun Run each year because their experts helped them train.

“We take great pride in the fact that now people are very attune to how to prepare for events like that and we are now really helping people get up and off the couch,” she says.

SportMedBC will be moving into a new, state of the art facility in Burnaby in the spring of next year.