Eric Ekelund

Experience

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  Health South

  Aug 2003 - Jun 2005

  High School Athletic Trainer
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  High Performance Sports Medicine

  Jun 2005 - Mar 2009

  Physician Extender

  Physician extender to an orthopedic surgeon in a fast-paced private orthopedic practice. Responsible for applying, modifying, and removing upper and lower extremity casts, splints and braces; as well as providing wound care, and post-op management for surgical sites. Solely responsible for patient/family education to ensure optimal patient outcomes for postoperative care, home exercise programs, wound care, and DME management. Manage supplies needed to maintain inventory for the medical office and prepared sterile atmospheres for injections and in office procedures to assist facilitating the flow of patient care Show less

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  High Performance Sports, Inc.

  Jun 2005 - Dec 2007

  Stength & Conditioning Coach
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  Performance Training Center

  Mar 2009 - Mar 2011

  Program Director/Strength & Conditioning Coach

  Director in charge of start-up and overseeing PTC, a multi-faceted clinic providing one-on-one personal training, gym membership, group programs, speed and agility clinics and target population treatment (cardiac history, diabetes, post-surgical and bariatric rehab). Communicate with healthcare team and work closely to determine parameters for blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and rate of perceived exertion as well as lifting restrictions. Monitor heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rates and perceived exertion during 1:1 sessions. Provide modifications to clients treatment programs in a holistic manner to address nutritional, ergonomic and home care modifications to promote improvement to overall health and wellness Show less

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  OnSite Innovations

  Jun 2013 - now

  Direct manager for 9 Onsite athletic trainers in occupational health settings with contracts in manufacturing, operations, sales and construction. Assist athletic trainers with case by case support, professional development, and oversee the athletic trainer and their role at the site to ensure a well-developed relationship between the ATC and client. Maintain a strong relationship with contracted site managers to ensure high satisfaction of the Onsite program. Develop, assign and support projects which continue to advance processes in areas of wellness, ergonomics, case management, and injury prevention and employee education. Weekly meetings with each trainer for staff development and site operations/sales managers as needed. Show less Responsible for 200+ employees in manufacturing setting at Randolph site as well as 5 warehouses with 90+ employees in operations in central and northern New England. Manage, treat and refer as needed for occupational injury/illness from recognition through recovery. Implement ergonomics programs to prevent repetitive and force related injuries. Dynamic relationship with site safety managers to manage injury cases as well as implement necessary physical, behavioral and administrative changes to the work stations. Modifications may be developed from risk assessments and post injury investigations including behavioral opportunities, administrative concepts and engineering changes. Show less

  • Operations Account Manager

    Mar 2016 - now

  • Regional Manager of Athletic Training

    Jan 2014 - now

  • Head Athletic Trainer - FLNA Stacy's Pita Chips & North East Sales Operations

    Mar 2011 - Jul 2016

  • Ergonomics Committee Manager

    Jun 2013 - May 2016