About - Challenge Wellness

About Me

My name is Dr Chris Erickson, DPT, Cert MDT

I’m focused on helping people navigate through the frustration and confusion of a Spine, Disc, or Joint problem and return to strength training and activities like running, squatting, and deadlifting.
– Everything about the Challenge Wellness brand centers around a multifaceted approach of incorporating movement, exercises, nutrition, mindset, and fitness into the plan of care to help you
– The truth is you don’t “need” any of the supplements. You can get what you need from a purposeful lifestyle of diet, sleep, water intake, and exercises. HOWEVER, they will enhance and help if you’re lacking any nutrients or find it difficult due to time and a busy schedule.

– There is no “Magic Bullet” that will solve this problem passively for you. It takes some active work and consistency over time. That’s why every order comes with a digital product of your choice that will help guide you through mobility and specific exercises for your joint or body part of choice

– Are you frustrated with your current progress and garbage advice you get from your medical doctor?

– Are you fed up with the only treatment options being more pills, injections, rest, or surgery?

– If your Physical Therapy treatment consisted of Bike, Hotpack, Ultrasound, E-Stim, and some basic hamstring stretches…You went to the wrong place and there are better treatments for you here with the digital courses.

– Are you confused about what movements are safe for you and you should be doing and what movements you should avoid?

– Are you confused about the amount of information out there on the internet? You have no idea what advice to listen to and reading more and more just gets you more fearful and confused.

– Do you have fear about re-injury and don’t understand or believe that you can get back to the way you moved before the injury?

– Stop the hamster wheel of treatment and terrible advice

– Has a doctor told you to stop everything, including exercise like running, squatting, and deadlifting?

– Has a Spine or Disc injury put your life on hold?

– Has a Spine or Disc injury stopped you from doing the things you love?

– Do you believe deep down that there is a better way to heal your Spine or Disc injury besides rest, medications, injections, or surgery?

– Do you want to safely return to activities like running, squatting, and deadlifting?

Are you afraid you’re never going to be able to solve this pain and return to your normal life?
Are you afraid returning to exercise is going to cause more pain and damage to your bulging, herniated, or ruptured discs?
Are you frustrated with your current progress and the garbage advice you seem to get from the standard medical model?
Are you confused about what movements are safe for you and what movements you should avoid?
Do you wonder what advice to listen to and reading more and more on the internet just makes you more fearful and confused?
Do you have fear about re-injuring yourself and don’t understand how or believe that you can get back to the way you moved before the injury?
Has a doctor told you to stop everything, including exercises in the gym like running, squatting, or deadlifting and to just rest and take more pills?
Has a Spine or Disc injury literally put your life on hold?
Has a Spine or Disc injury stopped you from doing the things you love?
Do you believe deep down that there is a better way to heal your Spine or Disc injury besides bed rest, cookbook stretches, medications, injections, or surgery?
Do you want to safely return to activities like running, squatting, and deadlifting?

If you answered yes to any of these, than you’re in the right place and I’ve got a different solution for you

You’re NOT alone! I’ve seen thousands of people that have been so frustrated and fed up with being told they will never recover.

They are incorrectly led to believe that the only treatment options for disc issues are stopping all activities that hurt, passive modalities like E-stim, heat, or ice, taking more pills, injections, or surgery.

I’m here to tell you that there is another way.

As a health and fitness professional, I’ve seen thousands of disc injury clients and hear it all too often. You are not alone! Too often, medical providers give out blanket strategies to those who struggle with pain and fear of movement due to a disc injury. You are incorrectly led to believe that advice like stopping all activities and resting, staying on garbage medications, passive modalities like ice, heat, or e-stim, injections, or surgery are the only options to resolve a disc injury.

Unfortunately these strategies often lead to:

more pain, frustration, and confusion

The belief that our bodies and spine are fragile

That we need someone or something to fix us

And that we are not capable of feeling strong and pain-free ever again.

I understand that you truly want to be in less pain and have more clarity and knowledge about what happened and what you can safely do. You want to know that you have tools at your disposal to help keep the pain reduced without relying on someone else to do it to you. You want to feel in control of your situation and do things proactively to increase your strength and greatly reduce the chance this happens again. You want to return to your normal, pre-disc injury life. But even more than that, you want to be stronger mentally and physically and better than before.

I’ve been fortunate to have worked with thousands of people with disc injuries in the spine and have seen how poor treatment can lead to fear of movement, weakness from disuse, and mental frustration that stops you from enjoying life.

My whole purpose is to take you from feeling BROKEN, FEARFUL, FRUSTRATED, and WEAK to feeling STRONG, CONFIDENT, CLEAR and BACK IN THE GYM STRENGTH TRAINING again