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.
One goal I picked this semester was to perform an actual or scenario evaluation once a week. I picked this because the more evaluations I perform the better I will be at them (practice makes perfect). I did not get much experience last year performing evaluation because the fall semester I spent a lot of time in the clinic in the mornings. During the spring semester I did not preform an evaluation when I was with Bre. However, I did see an elbow dislocation so that was definitely worth it. Bre did quiz Colin and I randomly on evaluation scenarios making sure we were prepared for anything to happen at any high school event. I also picked this because I lack confidence in myself, and the more evaluations I perform and get correct the more my confidence will go up. I wanted to make confidence be one goal by its self because I think this is my biggest weakness I lack in myself, however, I think combining this with evaluations will really enhance my skills. Last week I was faced with a tricky evaluation. Melissa told me I was going to do an evaluation on an ankle. I was pretty excited because ankles are probably the easiest evaluation I have performed before. However, this evaluation was not easy at all. I went through my evaluation and kind of got to a point where I didn’t know what else I needed to do, so then I reached out to Melissa for help. She guided me along to perform some manual muscle testing to rule out some type of injury to the muscle. She would suggest a muscle or muscle group and I would perform the MMT. I got nervous at first because I couldn’t remember all the muscles in the foot, but once Melissa would mention the name I knew exactly how to MMT that muscle or muscle group. After doing multiple tests, we were able to pin point where the exact pain was on her ankle. Once she came into the clinic at the very beginning and I performed the evaluation her pain was along the lateral aspect around her lateral malleolus. However, throughout the middle of the evaluation her most tender spot was on the fifth metatarsal. At this point we checked to rule out a fracture, and all three tests of tuning fork, ultrasound, and compression were positive. I believe this goal is going to help me improve my confidence and skills because I will be performing them weekly. This also keeps me on my toes making sure I am prepared for whatever type of scenario or injury that can occur each week.
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April 2019
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