These interactive playbook systems are a step-by-step plan to initiate and complete significant healthy lifestyle changes. The Athlete Systems provide your employees with educational information and the motivation to take control and manage their own lifestyles more effectively resulting in healthier, safer, and happier people.
Human Maintenance System
The Human Maintenance System is a TOTAL RISK SOLUTION that focuses on your company’s greatest concerns: employee accidents, injuries, and illness. Utilizing onsite Certified Athletic Trainers, immediate and long lasting results can be expected in the areas of safety, productivity, morale, and overall quality of life.
Health and Safety Seminars
Health & Safety Seminars are a very effective approach to educate, motivate, and inspire people to prioritize their lifestyle management and personal safety. Mark Everest and our other presenters are passionate about health & safety and gifted at creating interest and awareness where it is needed.
Physical Demands Analysis
Our trainers directly observe and analyze the physical demands required of your employees to perform the essential functions of their specific job tasks including: loads and forces, posture, motion, environments, etc.
Physical Readiness System
This 10-12 minute routine that employees perform together onsite before their shift begins, physically prepares them for the demands of their jobs. The system emphasizes important elements such as movement, strength, balance, flexibility, and awareness.
Improve: Condition of workforce Reduce injuries Provide focus, motivation, team-like atmosphere
Functional Fit For Duty
Functional Fit for Duty Programs are based on a Physical Demands Analysis of specific jobs. Following the PDA, a Functional Fit for Duty Plan that includes instructions with modifications as needed for proper biomechanical techniques for the specific job’s physical demands will be implemented.
Functional Fit for Duty
Functional Fit for Duty Programs are based on a Physical Demands Analysis of specific jobs. Occupational Athletics applies the principles of FUNCTIONAL ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT to the workplace by “TRAINING FOR THE TASK, NOT JUST FOR THE SAKE OF EXERCISE” to adapt employees to their jobs’ unique physical demands. Being “Functionally Fit for Duty” lessens the chance for injury as well as improving job performance, safety, job satisfaction, and Quality of Life.
Functional Fit For Duty Program includes:
Physical Demands Analysis
Assessment with Recommendations
Functional Fit for Duty Plan
Instructions with modifications as needed for proper biomechanical techniques for the specific job’s physical demands.
Specific strength, flexibility, and balance exercises appropriate for job demands
Environmental recommendations
Recommended Plan may be instituted:
As a written plan of action
Administered by an Occupational Athletic Trainer onsite
Why a Functional Fit For Duty Program?
Modern science has shaped athletes to become more efficient at their sport while helping to prevent injury, so why not apply it to employees on the job? A Physical Demands Analysis allows a trained health expert to see first hand the specific environmental and physical challenges of any occupational task. Therefore, just as an athlete trains specific to the demands of his or her sport, the physical therapist/athletic trainer can develop a Functional Fit for Duty Program (a training program specific to a person’s profession). The goal is that the employee can complete his or her job more effectively, while lessening the chance for injury, and time lost from work.
Talia Trapuzzano Eubanks, PT, DPT, SCS, ATC, CSCS Doctor of Physical Therapy Board Certified Sports Physical Therapy Specialist Certified Athletic Trainer Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
