SCU Tactical Sports Medicine / Tactical Strength & Conditioning

Congratulations to the Post Officer Wellness team and their Emmy for Silent No More video. Our very own Coach Hofman was on the team who helped develop the video.

Register for our last POST Course session for Monday 6/7 6/28 Registration link in bio! This free self-paced, distant learning course designed to help parti...cipants receive CPT credits through SCU Health’s Fatigue Management, Arousal Control & Tactical Recovery course. Hosted by our Director of Tactical Strength & Conditioning, John Hofman, MS, CSCS*D, TSAC-F. Register at scuhealth.org/post-igp or link in bio. #police #policeofficer #officerwellness #whittier #fullerton #orangecounty #tacticaltraining #LAPD #LASD See more

Coach Rozy is finishing up the day with the team. CA Post PT Instructor Class

Session starts next Monday, spots still available

Implementing fitness and reaction time exercise programs is important to decrease the injury risk and increase work capacity in firefighters with reference to female workers.

Spots still available for our next class session beginning May 17th

The results of this study showed that a recovery protocol combining deep breathing and mental imagery promotes heart rate recovery and a better maintenance of physical fitness.

These results suggest that the development of firefighter-specific skills can decrease the MSKI risk of firefighter recruits by facilitating enhanced functional movement competencies, particularly during tasks that require single-leg movement and core strength and stability.

Conclusion: Public safety organizations appear to recognize the experience of moral distress or moral injury among public safety personnel that results from disconnects between personal core values, formal and informal organizational values, vocational duties, and expectations. Further research is needed to better understand moral distress or moral injury specific to public safety personnel and inform training and treatment in support of public safety personnel mental health.

Conclusions: The mechanisms through which injuries occur are also dependent on the job. Police officers experienced a higher percentage of motor vehicle related back problems, while firefighters had a higher percentage of injuries from overexertion. Musculoskeletal injury claims in these emergency personnel resulted in opioid prescriptions approximately 10%of the time.

TSM was honored to be a part of the CA POST Officer wellness team that produced this amazing video (TAKE A LOOK). Coach Hofman was again asked to be on the next CA POSt Officer wellness team in 2021..... https://post.ca.gov/Did-You-Know--Silent-No-More

We have been applying many of these principles in our reconditioning programs for years with our tactical operators. We need our #FitforDutyFitforLife......

The moderators of Wellness Pros in Fire and Rescue: Annette Firesqfitness, Maureen Stoecklein RD and Megan Lautz cordially invite you to a free webinar featurin...g Coach John Hofman. The webinar is 11/6/2020 at 130 Pacific time. Please feel free to share the link with other coaches as well as firefighters and decision makers at fire departments. We thank John for sharing his time and knowledge and the NSCA for hosting the webinar on their Zoom platform. Although you will not be able to download this webinar later, it will be available on our YouTube Channel: Wellness Pros in Fire and Rescue. Questions may be directed to Annette Zapp via Facebook Messenger or by commenting on this post. Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://nsca.zoom.us/j/93279285242

Congratulations to Dr Fanning on having his article published in the NSCA TSAC Journal (Oct, 2020).

The SCU TSM team is proud to be working with OCFA on their Pre-Academy Fitness Assessments. #FitforDutyFitforLife

Coach Hofman recently spoke with Christy at the Firefighter Deconstructed Podcast......Check it out "The Firefighter Deconstructed gets real with John Hofman. This guy knows how to talk and doesn’t care if he ruffles a few feathers, he calls it like he sees it. Coach Hofman spent a great deal of time getting to know the business end of being a firefighter. I know this is another firefighter episode but it can be applied to ALL first responders. We all work long shifts, we all encounter trauma and a physical and mental beating. " https://podcasts.apple.com//john-hofman-cscs/id1500483348

CHECK IT OUT!!!! CA POST - Fatigue Management, Arousal Control, and Tactical Recovery Monday, November 30, 2020 at 9 AM PST Public Hosted by SCU Health Online... Event This is a free (paid by POST Innovative Grant Program) self-paced, distance learning course on the topics of fatigue management, arousal control, and tactical recovery. https://www.facebook.com/events/4630937760314285/

Coach Hofman will be speaking at the NSCA TSAC Annual Training next Wednesday. Sign up at https://www.nsca.com/tactical-training/