What Gets You Out There
-Doug Teschner
“I’m out walking, skiing, or something every day.”
Doug Teschner loves being active outside. It’s something he shares with his family, both in the area and out in Colorado, where his grandkids just got up on skis. “My son said to me, ‘Dad, you don’t know how long you’re going to be doing this. If you want to go skiing with these kids, you’ve got to come out.’ And he was right.”
Doug planned a trip out West to ski the Rockies with them, but right before he was scheduled to leave, he had a setback. “I was cross country skiing. I had set up a day with my son [who lives here] to go to the Green Woodlands… It rained that night and immediately turned into a freeze up. I was hoping, maybe there’ll be a dusting of snow on top. Well, there wasn’t a dusting of snow. It was just a sheet of ice. That’s okay; we were doing fine and having a good time. But then I fell and it was like my shoulder hit concrete. My first reaction was, I hope this doesn’t mess up my trip.”
After skiing 3 miles back and getting xrays at the ER, he breathed a sigh of relief that nothing was broken and reached out to the Cioffredi & Associates Physical Therapy team to help. “I’ve been coming here for a long time. The place rocks. The people are terrific. I know Bill, I’ve been to Ruth when my hand blew up 11 years ago… The biggest was when I had my knee replacements, which was 2019-2020. I was working with Taylor and Kate. Taylor did my first knee, Kate, my second knee. I compare them and kind of joke about it. They are both great!”
“[This time,] Kate was able to get me in. She’s so skilled and so knowledgeable; out there on another level. She started in on it immediately. Just a couple visits got me where I needed to be… I got a cortisone shot the day before I went to Colorado, and I have no doubt that that was a big factor too, but the PT was great. And as a result, I’ve had great ski trip with my grandchildren in the Rockies and I’m going back again this coming season.”
“At the end of the day, [if you want to stay active] you have to discipline yourself to do the exercises and make it enjoyable. That’s the key with exercise: there is no one best exercise. The best exercise is the one the person’s going to do, you know? I mean, you’re not going to find me in a gym doing sets… The PTs are really good at adapting and figuring out what works best for me. You’ve got to listen to what they tell you, make a commitment, and hardwire it into your day. So I work at it, I do my exercises everyday, and it gets me out there. Thank you Cioffredi Team!”
This article first appeared in the November 2024 Cioffredi & Associates Newsletter:
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