This week was an insane and enjoyable week all in one. First started with a short practice on Monday after anatomy lab. Tuesday we had a PBL due which involved the face and head injuries, which gave us a bunch of attempts in our clinical packets. But, other than those couple of attempts I was not able to get any more attempts or masteries toward my packet.
This weeks practices were short and sweet in preparation for the big game on Saturday against Maryville College. Doing the two practices I clinically experiences this week, I planned a rehab for a linebacker with an injured hamstring. We decided to only hold him out of practice for a day than the next day he could return but was not allowed contact. The first day back he ran a couple of laps around the field running the length, 120 yards, and walking the width of the field, 50 yards, just to see how he it was feeling after treatment from Sunday. After he ran a couple of laps he wasn't feeling the best, he needed to be stretched. After stretching he ran and was feeling good again. After running about 6 laps, we decided to do some cutting drills. I put two weights about 5 yards apart and instructed and demonstrated how to run in a figure 8 for 30 seconds. After he finished a 30 second figure 8 he then ran another lap around the field, he continued until he ran for 5 minutes. After finishing practice and stretching a lot he started to feel a lot better. Then the next day he returned back to practice with limitations. Later in the week was the most exciting part my mom came down from New Bern for the game! I love being a part of the Athletic Training students and being able to clinically experience with football, because it is like having a bunch of brothers around. This game was an exciting game and sad game all at once, the boys played very well but lost the game. I also put in a picture with Brittany because she is getting closer to graduation and the day she leaves me.. This week was a very busy week, I was in class and lab all day almost everyday. I was doing a lot of running around, up the hill than back down. Clinically this week was one of the most exciting due to the football game on Saturday. Throughout the week I was able to do a couple of evals on some players and was also able to make much a practice plan for a player who was just returning from a concussion, the player had just returned the day before and walked at a brisk pace for 30 minutes with no symptoms and was feeling good. Thursday Cole made me come up with a plan for the player that day. I planned 15 minutes of running than a short ab set after. During practice the player was able to complete the workout without any symptoms, meaning the next practice could be a little more intense. Before practice that day I was able to do an eval on a player with a hamstring strain, something I had never seen before, however was very common to this player. Then doing practice was able to do a shoulder eval, this player had shoulder surgery after fracturing his shoulder snowboarding in March of this year. The doctor cleared him two days before returning to school for preseason. After looking at his shoulder before and his shoulder now I see a lot of the same deformities that I saw before the surgery was done. This weekend was a bad weekend to be an Emory & Henry football fan, losing 13 to 8 the whole team was upset. But it was an exciting weekend for Brittany and Carson being their last first Emory & Henry football game. During the game however I was assigned to blood duty and "floater", whenever there was blood I wrapped it up quickly and got the player back in, only a couple of guys needed my attention. There were very few injuries that I was involved in, one being a Lineman's wrist, he was complaining of pain, had limited ROM, and swelling quick. He finished the game though then went to the ER for x-rays, Cole and Brittany agreed on a stress fracture, however we still do not know.
This week was an adjustment week for me so I was not able to get any masteries, however already have 40 attempts. |