Getting Back on Course
Thanks to SBL Physical Therapy , Joe Dively is swinging a club again after a serious accident .
Joe Dively , chairman and CEO of First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust , has loved playing golf for as long as he can remember . So it ’ s not surprising that getting back on the golf course was a top priority when he entered physical therapy in January , following a serious accident .
The accident occurred in October 2016 when Dively and a friend were riding in a side-by-side all-terrain vehicle ( ATV ). “ I ’ ll always remember it was Homecoming at EIU and we had some friends over . After dinner , my friend said , ‘ Let ’ s go for a ride ,’ and we jumped in and , probably for the first time in my life , I didn ’ t put on my seat belt ,” Joe said . The two were riding on flat farm ground next to Joe ’ s house , he said , when “ I was just trying to do donuts in a cornfield – just messing around – and it just flipped over and threw me out of the roof .”
Joe ’ s friend broke a finger , but Joe was rushed by ambulance to Sarah Bush Lincoln and then flown by helicopter to a trauma hospital in Champaign where he underwent surgery to repair his severely fractured pelvis .
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Joe Dively and SBL Physical Therapist Kendall Giles .