{"id":2504,"date":"2014-06-30T07:11:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silversagesports.digitalnordic.net\/sssfl\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2015-01-21T07:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T15:24:24","slug":"ride2recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/ride2recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride2Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ridetorecovery\"<\/a>My Name is Corey Blatchford, and I am a Medically Retired Veteran.\u00a0 \u00a0I served close to a seven years in the US Army as a 12B Combat Engineer. \u00a0I entered the Army in 2004 to support and defend my country. \u00a0I was deployed to Iraq in 2006-2007 for 15 months, and on my last month there I was hit by an IED that damaged my left shoulder and left me with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. \u00a0Since then I have undergone 4 surgeries and endless amounts of therapy.<\/p>\n

When I was retired from the army I felt a lot of loss and pain both physically and mentally. \u00a0Coming home I felt really alone and thought that I would never be able to find an outlet for my pain. To help with my injuries and PTSD I found a program called Ride2Recovery. \u00a0Bike riding helps with my weight and also helps with my mental health. When I am riding I am able to be calm and enjoy life.<\/p>\n

I recently was donated a new bicycle and needed a FIT. Julie Young of\u00a0 o2Fitness\/Silver Sage Sports and Fitness Lab located here in Reno heard about my new bike and sponsored aPro Fit to ensure over-use injury prevention, and maximize my comfort and power output. From the moment I stepped into her office I felt calm and relaxed. She was very attentive to my concerns and what it would take to lessen the pain of my injuries while riding. Thanks to Julie I have now added more miles and faster ride times without being in pain that I would have had I not had the Fit done. Thank you for everything and thank you for your continued support in the Ride2Recovery Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Name is Corey Blatchford, and I am a Medically Retired Veteran.\u00a0 \u00a0I served close to a seven years in the US Army as a 12B Combat Engineer. \u00a0I entered the Army in 2004 to support and defend my country. \u00a0I was deployed to Iraq in 2006-2007 for 15 months, and on my last month […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-blog","tag-corey-blatchford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}