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 role as an athletic training student during rehab has multiple effects to my patients. As an athletic training student my main goal for rehab is to help the athlete or athletes get back to performing sport specific activities. However, there is a lot more than performing exercises or regaining full range of motion throughout this process. Throughout rehab, there is usually a progressive protocol that is followed to help the athlete heal from an injury, but each patient is very different which means some patients may progress slower or faster than the protocol. One must take into account the athletes mental and physical capabilities when programing their rehab. Different patients can fly through strengthening and range of motion for their injury, while others struggle because they are too timid to perform certain actions because they are afraid or hurting themselves again. So each patient should be treated differently according to their attitudes and efforts. I progress with my patient on a day to day progress. By watching the patient daily to see what challenges him and what he seems to overcome helps me to plan the rehab for the next day. By planning day to day helps me to interact with my patient to understand his attitude and efforts. After watching the patient be able to perform an exercise without complaining and willingness to get better is when I believe is the best time to progress in the rehab. It also depends on what type of injury because each injury must have a different approach. For example, an ankle sprain compared to a labrum tear that needed surgery. The patient with the ankle sprain can be pushed hard to get to back to play faster because the recovery time is shorter compared to the patient who had labrum surgery. Overall, the patient needs to progress when the patient is ready. There is no need to push a patient when they are timid about certain exercises. One must work with that patient to overcome the fear in order to progress in the rehab. After the patient has showed they are comfortable with the exercise they should increase in weight or repetitions. This allows the patient to also see progress by going up in weight or repetitions. If the patient sees progress throughout rehab it usually influences them to continue working hard which allows them to advance in their rehab. I personally like to influence my patients both mentally and physically. I know they have a lot going on with class work which can build up a lot of stress, so when they come into the clinic I try and help them forget about all the stress from classes and have them focus on trying to get better with their injury.
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