Move Without Limits
Reload is a modern physical therapy and fitness hybrid company located in New York City. Reload comprises educated physicians and fitness training specialists who aim to help people who have been failed by the traditional healthcare model and have nowhere else to go or are looking to elevate their performance level without relying on medication or surgery. Reload is leading the way in creating a higher standard in healthcare - to what it should be and what you deserve.
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Move Without Limits
35| Amber Edwards: Fitness as a Non-Traditional Occupational Therapy Setting
Please welcome today’s guest Amber Edwards. Amber is an Occupational therapist MS OTR/L, strength coach, and is a podcaster herself on the Reaching Your Potential podcast. Amber’s OT specialty is working in rehabilitation with the geriatric population. When Amber is not working in home health care and at grade schools coaching track, she is a trainer in NYC.
Amber is an athlete herself -a 3x NCAA DIII national qualifier and 2x DIII all-American in the 60m and 100m hurdles and currently has a passion for kettlebell training and inspiring others to lead fit and thus healthy lives.
In this episode we discuss...
- How understanding failure tolerance as an athlete helped Amber become a great coach
- What is Occupational Therapy?
- Fitness as a nontraditional OT setting
- Advice for OTs wanting to get into the fitness industry
Find Amber on IG: @thick.amb.fit
https://www.thickambfit.com/
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