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.
An athletic trainer is with a certain sport throughout their whole entire season, and sometimes for multiple seasons. They watch the athletes every day at practice. They know more about the athlete than another health professional because of the amount of time spent watching their practices/games. The athletic trainer should know what is a good and bad day for each athlete. They should know their personality and exactly what is normal and abnormal for them. When a patient comes into the clinic about an underlying problem he or she is experiencing, there is usually more to their injury. The athletic trainer does not just focus on their injury, but also on the core reason that could be effecting the problem. Its important for the athletic trainer to be able to notice when something isn’t normal with an athlete. For example, if an athlete is experiencing an eating disorder and is complaining of being fatigue all the time, an athletic trainer would notice that the athlete’s physical appearance has completely changed. They would be able to help the patient not only fix the problem with being fatigue, but educate and help them fix their eating disorder. Its also important because the athlete has someone to come to with other emotional issues they may be experiencing. This gives the athlete someone to trust to come to in order to help them through an emotional problem. Another important reason the athletic trainer should treat the whole patient rather than focusing on the impairment because they can know when to either push the athlete throughout rehab or how serious an injury might be. When the athlete is going through rehab, the athletic trainer will know when they can push the athlete to do more, or when the athlete has done too much, or even had a bad day to not allow them to reach their full goal. An athletic trainer has a very important role to the athletes compared to other health professionals because they are able to help the athlete by fixing the whole patient rather than the injury. Due to being with the athletes constantly they have an advantage in knowing when something else is going on with the athlete other an injury. By the athletic trainer taking a holistic approach to their patient they can also help them with mental problems going on in their life too.
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