May12

How Partnering with a Therapist or Chiropractor can Benefit your Box

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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:

Experience pain either during their workout or at any other time in their life.

Poor technique is limiting their progress.

Don’t seem to be making progress the way they should.

When they can’t do something they should be able to do

When they are obviously having problems and you don’t know how you can help them.

What the conversation with your client looks like:

Identify the problem at hand

“Do you have someone you normally go to for that?” …read more