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The onset of websites like MobilityWOD has built awareness around the benefit of having health care professionals like physical therapists and chiropractors partnering with local boxes.  If you’re a gym owner and you aren’t currently teaming up with a local professional, there are a variety of reasons why having one on board is beneficial.  Dr. Scott Hoar goes over some of the benefits of these partnerships as well as when to refer your clients out.

The Referral Process 

Referring your clients to a trusted medical provider creates options for your clients that want to avoid or treat their injuries.  Think of it as your insurance policy toward holding onto your members.  There’s no quicker way for a member to freeze or cancel their membership than when they have a significant injury and can no longer wod.

I’m willing to bet that every box owner or trainer reading this has been asked by a member in the past week, “when I do thrusters it hurts (pick a body part).  What should I do about that?  THIS IS WHEN YOU GET TO TAKE ACTION!
Send them to a medical professional!

When do you refer your clients?  When your clients:

What the conversation with your client looks like:

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When I was at the power monkey camp in Tennessee I put the athletes through a warm-up that everyone really enjoyed and several people asked if I had in a video format.  Over this past weekend I got in front of a video camera to make that happen.  I slung together a whole heck of a lot of my favorite mobility exercises for the entire body and plugged it into one big old video.  The exercises selected are based off on the Joint by Joint concept popularized by Gray Cook .  Check it out and let me know what you think.

These exercises can easily be plugged into your warm-up or cool-down for the day or used on an off days to promote mobility.  If you’re interested in how I incorporate these exercises into a warm-up and throughout a training session you can find out by signing up for my fitness pain free programming.

Mobile as a baby boy,

Dan Pope DPT, CSCS

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