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.
This year I picked my clinical question based on my something I can test for the next year. My little clinical question is “does tenotomy the biceps tendon with labrum repair make athletes with overhead activity more susceptible to biceps tendinopathy after returning to play.” I picked this question because my rehab patient for my clinical class had labrum surgery, and they cut the bicep tendon off. I was really interested when I first heard about this because I never knew this is one of the ways to repair the labrum. I honestly had no idea this is how some surgeons perform labrum surgery. After I had initially thought about it, I was curious if this affects the athlete after return to play. I was also wondering if the biceps tendon just creates a new attachment to the biceps. After reevaluating the process, I wanted to find out if this causes more issues for biceps tendinitis. However, for overhead athletes, would this be beneficial because it would not cause any biceps tendinitis because the biceps tendon has been cut off. So I begun my question to figure out if cutting the biceps tendon does create any biceps tendinopathy. I have started my research already and found that it is very common for overhead athletes to cut the biceps tendon to relieve pain (biceps tendinitis). A lot of baseball players have had this surgery before in order to reduce pain in the biceps. My investigation committee consists of my AT advisor Hannah, my faculty advisor Beth, and my clinical partner Katie Meade. I am in the process of finding a content expert. I have reached out to Dr. Hannula, but was later told that he does not check his email. I picked Hannah because she has two sports with overhead athletes (volleyball and baseball). I picked Beth because I can come talk to her anytime about my research. She also has read a lot of research, so its helpful to come and talk about things I have read compared to what she has read. Lastly, I picked Dr. Hannula because he is a surgeon, and can talk with him about what he prefers/what is best.
This week I was able to get a lot of attempts with Bre. I made a home rehab for an athlete at Patrick Henry. It was actually quite fun to make it for her, and she said she was really excited because she was wanting to get better. I believe I got 9 attempts this week.
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