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.
I do believe what I have been learning in the classroom has paralleled to my clinical experience this semester. My clinical class this semester has brought up a lot of topics on the things I have seen when I am clinically experiencing in the field house. Throughout my clinical class this semester, we have learned about different injuries from PBLs. Since I do not spend a lot of time with the football team when they practice, I get to see a lot more injuries/rehab because I am scheduled for clinic times. Recently, I was able to observe/assist Cole with a back injury. The athlete had already had an evaluation, so it was a following rehab that I assisted Cole with. Cole walked me through what happened to the athlete and the steps taken to help him recover. I was able to talk with Cole about different back injuries as in: lordosis, kyphosis, swayback, and forward head posture. We were able to assess that the athlete had a significant forward head posture, and we immediately started rehab to decrease this action. It was interesting to bring this situation to Cole because he was impressed I knew these terms. So I felt like I gained some brownie points from this experience because it helped my confidence. Another class that has been really helpful for me is my Human Anatomy class. Throughout this class we have gone over the integumentary system and the bones. Even though I knew a lot about this already, I was able to review these subjects which has been very helpful. Cole has taught me that knowing anatomy helps a lot with an evaluation. So this class has been really helpful because it has refreshed my memory. For example, an athlete came in with a hand injury and Cole asked me to perform an evaluation. I was able to tell Cole which carpal bone I thought was injured because I had just recently gone over the anatomy of the hand in my class. This is just a few examples of how my classes have been tying into my clinical experience. It has been really helpful this semester, even if some things are a review. This week I was able to record 1 mastery and 7 attempts. However, I did not meet my goal for this week. I was able to clinically experience the football game, which allowed me to get most of my attempts for this week.
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Reflective JournalsThese journal entries express my experience as an athletic training student Archives
April 2019
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