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Medical Clearance

Required for Participation

 

Trauma Recovery Through Movement, Medical Integrity, and Mission-Ready Fitness
Challenger Point Practice PLLC | Ad Astra Per Aspera

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What Is Medical Clearance?

CLIMB Protocol is a trauma-reset and immersive resilience-building experience that involves physical movement, environmental exposure, and body-based reset practices. Before we dive into ice, ocean, elevation, or air with you, you’ll need a signed medical clearance from a licensed MD or DO.

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This clearance ensures you're safe to participate in:

  • Mountain hiking and altitude work

  • Ocean immersion, breathwork, and snorkeling

  • Functional movement and team-based reset drills

  • Cold exposure, heat exposure, and somatic stress drills

  • Sailing and parasailing

  • Optional SCUBA training (with dive-specific clearance)

This is not a generic waiver. It’s your physician confirming you’re physically stable, cleared, and functionally ready to participate.

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What Participants Should Expect

Peer Specialist certification is supervised by a Medical Director (MD/DO), includes a licensed mental health professional, includes a peer specialist assigned to you, and radically grounded in reality. This is your team, which will work with you to create a personalized resiliency arc, which may include climbing peaks, swimming reefs, sailing, and or grief work in Hawaii. Before you begin, we will ensure all questions are answered, all safety aspects have been considered, follows all ethical, legal, and medical practices including using only evidenced based interventions.

 

This medical clearance form:

  • Screens for contraindications (e.g. heart, pulmonary, ENT, behavioral health)

  • Ensures you can safely perform resets of all types

  • Opens the door to SCUBA certification for those eligible (certified separately)

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We Help You Get the Form Completed

You’ll be paired with a Peer Specialist who helps:

  • Schedule your PCP/PCM visit

  • Submit this form to your doctor

  • Coordinate time off, short-term disability, FMLA (as necessary)

  • Help secure any modifications or accommodations necessary

  • Ensure your paperwork is submitted securely and on time

If you don’t have a doctor, we’ll help you find one—even in rural areas.

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SCUBA Track for Ocean Reset (Optional)

Some participants will choose to go deeper—literally.

Peer Specialist certification can also include the option to pursue SCUBA certification. Those participants will complete pool and open-water dives with certified instructors. SCUBA activities require:

  • Additional medical screening by your MD/DO

  • Secondary waivers with certified dive agencies

  • Instructor-led skills practice in pool and ocean

 

Note: We’ve included a SCUBA section in the medical clearance form so your provider can approve (or flag) early

 

Download and Submit the Form

📄 [Download Medical Clearance PDF]
🖊️ Complete the Unified CLIMB Intake Form

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Submit via Secure Methods:

📧 Email: matthew@challenger-point.com
📠 HIPAA-Compliant Fax: 970-360-1011
(Forms delivered securely to encrypted inbox)

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Short-Term Participant Outcomes​

  • Reconnected to a Primary Care Provider (PCP) or establish a Primary Care Manager (VA system)

  • Complete a functional assessment, medical check of all systems

  • Time off secured if needed (Paid Time Off, Leave of Absence, FMLA, short-term disability, bridge to long-term)

  • Integrated treatment team, including a Peer Specialist, Licensed Mental Health Professional, and Medical Doctor 

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Long-Term Community Impact

  • More trauma-exposed professionals connected to ongoing care

  • Reduced emergency room reliance

  • Increased resilience, cardiac health, and engagement with primary care

  • Evidence-based reporting for grants, departments, and funders

  • Military skillbridge into medical systems

  • Political Advocacy for First Responder skillbridge after 10 years of service, transitioning into medical systems

  • Tier 1 operator, military veteran, and first responder peer specialist curriculum publications

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Questions?

Matthew Carlson
Founder | Chief Resilience Architect
📧 matthew@challenger-point.com
 

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