Officer Wellness & Why Everyone Is Sick Of Hearing About It
From holding the line at protests to eliminating active shooter threats, police aren’t typically known for their wellness culture.
But…
Officers and LEO agencies across America are ditching optional wellness workshops for evidence-based training while leveraging an in-service approach.
IN 5 MINUTES, YOU’LL LEARN:
✔️ Why everyone is sick of hearing about #wellness
✔️ How injuries could be giving us poor mental health
✔️ TacMobility Officer wellness program providing help to police agencies
#WELLNESS IS MAKING OFFICERS 🥱🤢
Officers are growing more apathetic towards wellness and we’ve gotta course correct ASAP.
This happens when:
Wellness isn’t varied - we need more than newsletter or fitness challenges. I’m all about wellness but if you tell me that I need to do 100 burpees, politely kick rocks.
Management doesn’t use the wellness resources advertised - If wellness isn’t practiced at the top ranks, it will still exist in lower ranks but it will never be part of the culture…which is the goal.
There are no wellness standards or accountability - no agency is teaching how to do a DUI stop with just a powerpoint. So why is wellness is often a workshop or a great speech given by someone who’s lived through traumatic experiences?
Things have come a long way but what would happen if we applied the same kind of standards to wellness like we do other training areas? Personnel deserves wellness tactics and practice and standards to work towards.
COULD INJURIES BE TO BLAME FOR POOR MENTAL HEALTH RATES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT?
Being a First Responder is a pain in the ass.
No literally - if you’re sitting on your butt for 10-12 hours a day with a loaded tactical vest, it won’t be before long that you’re feeling the warm, numb and achy presence of sciatica.
Sure, it’s annoying, but did you know that chronic pain:
Can lead to thoughts of wanting to die due to intensity of pain - if pain is never ending, one might be looking for a “done” button.
Causes depression due to work and social impact - changing your life to accommodate your pain makes you laugh less and think less of yourself.
And, on a basic level though, it’s difficult to stand at a call for 40 minutes when you have a bulging disc and have a ton of compassion.
TACMOBILITY ISN’T A WORKSHOP, IT’S IN-SERVICE
Erica Gaines, our creator, spent years working alongside law enforcement to develop a program that mimicked in-service style training but for officer wellness. TacMobility has quickly become the choice wellness program of officers across America.
✔️Learn the science behind stress so that you can identify/manage it better (no death by powerpoint)
✔️Training aids to develop emotional intelligence and Fight or Flight regulation.
✔️Guided techniques that lesson chronic pain in your hips, low back, shoulders and more.
Citations: Pain Medicine (Malden, Mass.), 07 Aug 2009, 10(6):1095-1105
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2009.00682.x PMID: 19671084
Ataoğlu, E., Tiftik, T., Kara, M. et al. Effects of chronic pain on quality of life and depression in patients with spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 51, 23–26 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.2012.51
I’m Erica Gaines, CEO/Founder of TacMobility and a huge advocate for officer wellness. After meeting over 100,000 police officers, I knew I had to help with The #1 Cop Killer in America: Suicide.
