Eric Wilson

PT, DSc, DPT, OCS, SCS, CSCS, NASM-PES, FAAOMPT

Sports

Bio

Eric is the founding Program Director and current Deputy Program Director for the USAF’s Tactical Sports & OMPT Fellowship – a training pipeline preparing USAF PTs to become embedded in Special Operations units. He is well known for his “OCS Prep Course” which he has taught since 2004. Prior to retiring from the USAF in 2016, Lieutenant Colonel Wilson served as the USAF Academy’s Associate Athletic Director for Sports Medicine and the USAF’s PT consultant for Special Operations PT. Eric served in the US Army for 4 ½ years as an Airborne Infantryman, fighting in Gulf War I as a Sergeant with the 82nd Airborne Division.

He earned a Masters degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1998 and worked for three years as a civilian PT prior to accepting a USAF commission in 2001. He was Rocky Mountain University of Health Profession’s first Doctor of Science graduate in 2001 and earned his FAAOMPT from Regis University’s Post-Professional Fellowship in Manual Therapy in 2008. Eric developed the USAF’s first dry needling course in 2013. He was also one of the USAF’s first PTs embedded in special operations and is the only USAF PT to have graduated from the US Army’s Flight Surgeon course as well as NOAA’s Dive Medical Officer course.

Eric has taught continuing education courses since 1999 and has presented at numerous state and national meetings and has published in both peer-reviewed journals and medical texts. He has taught in Residency and Fellowship programs and has been a full-time Fellowship instructor since 2016. He lives in Colorado Springs, CO with his wife and the world’s most spoiled dog.