When it comes to fitness and wellness, I'm afraid most rehab professionals too easily step into the ruts of the industry rather than consider "What might be?".
I was fortunate enough to be thrust into the wellness arena the first year of my professional rehab career. The US Army was big into the new buzz word of 1982: Corporate Fitness. OUCH…some one is getting old and hopefully for those of you new to wellness you get some perspective on how "Un-new" wellness in the workplace really is!
What disappoints me is that almost every article on rehab and wellness gravitates to the same old models of flexibility assessment, posture screens, standard ergonomic assessment….YAWN! Is that the best we can do?
So what should we be doing? CREATING SOMETHING NEW & BETTER!
At the AZAPTA Fall Conference in 2009 the theme was wellness and fitness. Here is the short one page position paper I distributed articulating a call for us to step forward to LEAD a true biopsychosocial revolution in fitness. Click here to read.
Here a couple of things I am creating:
What are you doing to bring forward new programming in fitness and wellness that we weren't doing 10, 15 or 20 years ago?
Let me know…we can and MUST do better than what is out there now!
Please know that your faculty has many constraints on what and how it can teach…after all schools are part of the larger systems of regulation and accreditation. So be patient…you are garnering amazing tools for being of service to others in the future. But, if you find things a little dry or mechanistic in approach to what you know from your "real" world, hang on. 