Port Hope Sports and Rehabilitation Centre
Leaders in Preventative and Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Andrew Fagan recently competed at the World Archery Target Championships in Mexico City as a member of Canada’s national team. This event marks 10 years Dr. Fagan has been representing our county competing with the national team at various international events.
Sandor, one of our physiotherapist, travelled with the Speed Academy Track and Field team to the Canadian National Championships 2017 in Ottawa.
Speed Academy is based on Pickering Ontario and headed by one of the best track coaches, Tony Sharpe. Under coach Sharpe, Speed Academy has produced some of the best athletes in Canada that have filled our National Athletics Teams for Youth, Junior and Senior teams.
The team did really well with Leya Buchanan winning silver medal in 100m, Xahria Santiago ta 
ing bronze in 400m hurdles and Drelan Bramwell reaching 6th in 200m.
According to a recent article published by the Globe and Mail, superstar sprinter Andre De Grasse contributes part of his success to working with his chiropractor, Dr. Alban Merepeza:
“I owe a lot of my success to my support team. There’s no way I could have achieved what I did in Rio without my chiropractor Alban [Merepeza], who has been working with me from the very beginning.”
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Once again Dr. Merepeza was invited by the Albanian Skiing Federation to be the Albanian Alpine Skiing Team’s medical staff. This was a special event as Dr. Merepeza and his very good friend Dr. Roger Woodward formed the medical team. This was the first time that Dr. Woodward and Dr. Merepea have worked together with Dr. Woodward being the physician for the team and Dr. Merepeza its chiropractor. It was an exciting event as the Albanian skiers improved their ranking in this competition.
It was fantastic scenery in the Swiss Alps and one of the best memorable events in winter sports for all.
Dr. Merepeza was part of the medical staff of Albanian National Soccer Team during these tough qualifiers that included great teams such as Portugal.
Albania was able to qualify for the Championships with a historic result and a deserved win on the last game in Yerevan, Armenia 3-0. Off to France!
This was undoubtedly the best Olympic Games Dr. Merepeza has attended. He was there as official chiropractor for the Canadian Olympic Team and specifically with athletics team. It was very exciting to be in Rio with probably the most promising Athletics Team that Canada had ever send to any Olympic Games. The Canadian Team produced the best results as expected collecting six medals with Andre de Grasee leading the way with three medals, bronze in 100m, silver in 200m and bronze on the 4X100m relay.
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An extremely satisfying and memorable experience for Dr. Merepeza!
Dr. Merepeza travelled to Beijing for the Athletics World Championships as a personal chiropractor with talented Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse. It was great to be back in Beijing seven years since 2008 Olympics. It was an exciting event as Andre came as NCAA champion in 100m and 200m with some phenomenal times 9.75 and 19.58 which he did in a fashion that has never been done before, only 45 minutes apart between both races.
He got bronze with 9.92 in 100m and it was a fantastic result for Andre! He put Canada on the sprint map again!
The PAN AM Games in Toronto were a unique opportunity for all of us at Port Hope Health Centre to get involved and contribute to the Games. Sandor, our physiotherapist, was selected to work at the Weightlifting Competition held in Oshawa Civic Arena and Dr. Merepeza was the Lead Medical practitioner for the Weightlifting Sport. The Medical Team included 5 MDs, 6 Physiotherapists, 3 Athletic therapists, 4 Massage Therapists and the staff from St John’s Ambulance and Durham’s Paramedic EMS Services. One of the MDs was our own Dr. Kemi Oluyole, Family Physician at Cobourg Health Centre.
Dr. Merepeza, after the weightlifting competition was over, moved on to track and field for the remainder of the games working with Andre De Grasee who won gold in 100m (10.05), 200m (19.88) Canadian Record!
It was a fantastic experience for all of us and we were extremely proud to have participated in this great once in a life time Canadian PAN AM Games.
Dr. Merepeza had the pleasure once again to work with Albanian Ski Team at this great event. It was a good experience being in Colorado mountains and specifically in the beautiful towns of Vail and Beaver Creek.
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It was great to be back working for the Host Medical Services in Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico. Everything about Mexico that Dr. Merepeza loves was there. Great friends (many colleagues that he has worked before with Mexico, Dr. Raul Castillo, Dr. Saul Luenga and others), great weather, great hospitality and the warmth of the Mexican culture! There were 31 countries and 5707 athletes that competed in 36 sports. Overall another great experience in Mexico.
