{"id":1236,"date":"2012-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ati.local\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:33:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:33:16","slug":"f-i-r-s-t-program-gets-injured-federal-agent-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atipt.com\/f-i-r-s-t-program-gets-injured-federal-agent-back-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"F.I.R.S.T.\u2122 Program gets injured federal agent back to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Michael&#8217;s &#8220;Get There&#8221; Story<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For one local Department of Homeland Security employee, a few weeks of physical therapy following his shoulder surgery simply wasn\u2019t enough. His job is a tough one, and after months of being out of work, he needed to rehab more than just his shoulder to get back to protecting our country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s why this federal agent spent weeks completing F.I.R.S.T., a full-body conditioning and strengthening program, at one of our East Coast clinics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although our patient has a pretty top secret job, he was pretty open about his injury, recovery, and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Michael&#8217;s Story<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael, a former Marine Corps member, injured his left shoulder while unloading heavy materials from a cargo plane. After heading to his doctor, he found out he needed a S.L.A.P. repair, underwent surgery, and then chose ATI for his physical therapy. He admits that he tried to push it during his initial recovery period, but our team at ATI kept him in line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith a soft tissue injury, you\u2019re just supposed to let it rest,\u201d Michael says. \u201cI knew that, but I definitely pushed it. I had a running joke with [my therapists at ATI] that I was going to reinjure my shoulder just because I couldn\u2019t help but use it, but they were good at helping to keep me inactive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Work conditioning program gets agent back to work<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After three months of acute rehabilitation, which included a lot of range of motion exercises, Michael entered F.I.R.S.T., attending the program for four weeks for four to five hours each weekday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have a physically demanding job, and I have an eight-man team relying on me,\u201d Michael says. \u201cI had to get in shape and hit the ground running; I couldn\u2019t let them down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because the F.I.R.S.T. program is tailored to each individual, Michael\u2019s therapist, Greg Olkowski, had to get creative to create simulations that mirrored Michael\u2019s everyday work. Greg found a vacant area near the clinic where the two would go to help Michael rehab. Greg put Michael in his typical uniform, boots, and weighted vest (which can weigh up to fifty pounds!), gave him a weighted bar to simulate a rifle, and had him perform tactical maneuvers, from a simple foot chase to a fireman\u2019s carry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis program went above and beyond,\u201d Michael says. \u201cGreg really adapted the program to fit the demands of my job, and it really exceeded by expectations. I\u2019m actually in better endurance shape now than I was before my injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>A parting gift\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael says that he had such a great experience that he wanted to give Greg a parting gift \u2013 a successful completion of Marine Corps Combat Fitness Training. (The CFT helps keeps Marines ready for the physical demands of combat operations and consists of a 880 yard sprint, 30-pound ammunition lift overhead for two minutes, and an obstacle course \u2013 all while wearing full military uniforms.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cGreg got up with me on a Saturday morning, and we drove out, set up this course, and even had a little fan club watching us,\u201d Michael says with a laugh. \u201cBut, none of them were brave enough to do it with us!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, don\u2019t worry \u2013 both passed the CFT with \u201cexcellent\u201d scores and are hoping to run it again in a few months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t know of any other program like this,\u201d Michael says, who has now returned to work. \u201cI think I\u2019m actually going to continue with some of it because it\u2019s a good supplement to Crossfit and the other training I do. Greg gets a lot of credit for all he\u2019s done for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To learn more about our F.I.R.S.T. program, visit our\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atipt.com\/services\/work-conditioning\">work conditioning page<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael&#8217;s &#8220;Get There&#8221; Story For one local Department of Homeland Security employee, a few weeks of physical therapy following his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>F.I.R.S.T.\u2122 Program gets injured 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