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.
The other day in the clinic I was scheduled to help womens basketball, however, none of the girls had shown up for pre practice treatment. So, I went over to Joe because I noticed he had a lot of athletes waiting to be seen by him, so I asked if he needed any help. I was a little nervous to help Joe because he is my preceptor in the spring, and I did not want him to think less of me if I had to perform an evaluation. However, I told myself I just needed to have confidence and perform the evaluation exactly how I know how to do it. Joe asked me to help an athlete who injured their arm. The patient couldn’t remember exactly what he did, however, he just knew the area where the pain was located. After looking at the patient, I narrowed down that the injury occurred on the biceps brachii short head. I also noticed a lot of bruising that occurred on the anterior aspect of the biceps brachii. I proceed to tell Joe, and he told me that is exactly what he was thinking too. He then asked me what kind of treatment I wanted to perform on this injury. Since the injury occurred the day before, I picked to do combo on his shoulder. I decided this would be the best choice for him because I wanted to make sure he began the healing process faster. I put the ultrasound on 20% and the intensity to .8. The intended outcome for this injury was for the ultrasound to used crystal combination to travel through the tissue and be absorbed. I wanted this to be performed over the bruising because there could be a potential contusion over that site, however, this was not the only area that was causing pain to the patient. I wanted to use electrotherapy to involve the whole area since there was more affected. The electrotherapy was used to provide electrical stimulation to the nerves. I did not come to this conclusion completely on my own. I picked to do ultrasound over the bruised area, and then perform electrotherapy after. However, Joe proceed to tell me to think more about the situation and then I realized I could perform a combination treatment on the athlete. This was actually a really great experience because it put me on my toes about thinking more outside the box. It was also really fun to do something different. Usually in the clinic we stick to the traditional ultrasound or electrostimulation, however, this was a very different form of treatment and I am glad I got to do something different. I think this is going to encourage me to do more outside of the box kind of things in order to help treat the athlete.
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