FITS TORONTO

President, Director of Athletic Development, Chiropractor

Dr. Thomas Lam has over a decade of strength and conditioning experience working with various athletes from grass root athletes to Professional and Olympic athletes. He is a chiropractor who bases his practice on identifying and correcting movement patterns by integrating passive and active modalities to achieve the best results possible.  

Dr. Lam graduated from the University of Toronto in 1998 with a Bachelors’ of Physical and Health Education, and then went onto study at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, graduating in 2003. Since he has been in private practice and in 2007 he started FITS a high performance training centre and sports medicine clinic. FITS is a dream come true for Dr. Lam, whose passion was to help Canadian athletes succeed at the highest level. To strive for this goal, Dr. Lam has intern and travelled around the world, (Denmark, Germany, Italy, and the USA) to gain exposure and to develop his skills.

Areas of Expertise and Competencies

• Athletic Development: test, develop and implement periodized programs to enhance athleticism
• Movement Analysis and Injury Prevention: create protocols, analysis metrics, develop and implement appropriate interventions
• Manual Therapy: assess, diagnosis, treat and refer out for MSK injuries

Professional Appointments

• Director of Athletic Development, FITS TORONTO
• Fitness Director, Alpine Ontario
• Strength and Conditioning and Athletic Development Consultant, Basketball Ontario, Canada Basketball: Centres of Performance, Canadian Centres of Sport Ontario: PEP Program
• Strength and Conditioning Coach, University of Toronto Women’s Varsity Basketball