Journals
These journals reflect my weekly experiences as an athletic training student. Each journal reflects either an actual patient contact experience, or something I am working on in my athletic training courses.
My clinical question this year is “Does consistent lack of sleep affect sports performance in collegiate athletes.” My clinical committee consists of Am as my group partner, Melissa Davis as my AT advisor, Brianne Kilbourne as my Faculty Advisor, and Mike Caro as my content expert. Am and I decided to research this clinical topic because as athletes we feel we do not get enough sleep. Of course there is multiple variables that take into account when complaining of not having enough sleep. This question is more personal to us in order to find the answers to how to better ourselves as athletes. There is also a player on our team who does not get enough sleep each week, and we wanted to know if this affects her performance. However, this question is a lot bigger than just personal use. We are very curious to research the different amounts of sleep needed in order to have the highest performance rate. Being a part of the SAAC committee, I have been able to hear a lot of complaints from the athletes. A big complaint involves getting back from an away game around midnight and having to go to classes or practice early in the morning. This research would be good information to relay back to the SAAC department to show what the studies have proven about collegiate athletes, and their performance based on their sleep. Lastly, this research will allow me to be able to help other athletes in balancing their time to either get more sleep or prioritize when they have multiple games during that week. So far we have been able to find three articles that will be really beneficial to our question. Coach Caro has read many studies on this case and is eager to work with Am and I on finding the best articles for our clinical question. This week I didn’t have much time to get many masteries or attempts because it was fall break. However, since it was fall break I was able to attend a practice (which I haven’t done in a long time). It felt really good being back in the clinic for pre practice, because I was able to do a lot more things like taping, bracing, and ultrasound. I was able to get three more attempts this week. I know this is not my ideal goal, but I am planning time in this upcoming week to meet my goals.
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April 2019
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