I feel that I have grown a lot this semester, not only with Athletic training but also as a student. This semester I as an athletic training I have not run away from evaluations, something in the past that I would have run away from. Also, in the past I would have looked for a preceptor to help with diagnoses. My feedback from my preceptor was just as a thought. Chaypin said she wouldn’t have been able to make it throughout this semester, which really helped with my confidence. This semester was a little crazy, with injury after injury with women’s soccer, but we made it through. She said that some things I needed to work on were evaluations of the shoulder as well treatment for the shoulder. I have always been very determined to be an extremely organized and determined athletic training student.
As I prepare for the spring semester, I wish to become more proficient with evaluation of the shoulder and diagnosing shoulder injuries. Being with track and field I hope to see many upper injuries with our throwers. This weekend has been a bit crazy, we take our exit exams on Friday and I am currently in D.C. for a family Christmas party and it is down pouring snow for Roanoke all the way back to school and are predicted to get over a foot of snow, so I will not be able to get back to school until Monday afternoon to start studying to my exit. I am very excited for this exit because we get to connect everything together. From the start of sophomore year with learning special tests and about the areas we are dealing with then into junior year connecting the special tests with injuries. Finally this year putting injuries and general illnesses/ conditions with the tests required to diagnose them and finally how to treat them.
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Without clinical packets this semester, I have had a hard time forcing myself to study throughout the semester. I have stressed myself out a lot this semester about our comprehension exam at the end of this semester. I feel this semester will be the hardest exam for me so far in my career, because the way I have been studying for exams in the past has to change. I completed goals at the beginning of the semester.
My first clinical goal was to complete 20 questions in my BOC prep book per week in preparation to pass my BOC exam in the spring. Over the semester I was working over hard in my book treating is as our clinical packet, however while working in it felt like there were some things I needed to learn and review more. My second clinical goal was to improve domain 4, therapeutic rehab by setting up mock or real injury rehabilitation exercises, two per week. I feel that i have learned a lot in this domain over the semester. I have been completing rehabs for athletes with shoulder, back, knee, and ankle. I have described what exercises are important for them to complete and why. My third clinical goal was to improve on evaluation of the shoulder by performing shoulder evaluation, one every two weeks. With this goal I feel I have improved tremendously and will continue to improve over the next couple months with the conference in January and experiencing with throwing athletes next semester. I have also worked with Alex, my potential preceptor for next semester, on the shoulder with muscles which is what I have struggled with. My last clinical goal was to improve on analyzing athletes’ nutrition habits to treat and/ or prevent injury or illness, by analyzing an athlete, one every two weeks. This goal has been much harder than anticipated, trying to find athletes willing to track all their food. I hope to complete this goal into next semester. This week was my last time experiencinging with a horse show for the semester. Before the show began an athlete who was not competing came up to Chaypin and I and asked if we could look at her ankle. I knew this athlete had previously had ankle difficulty. She had surgery in December of 2017, however was still experiencing some pain in her posterior ankle. She continued to tell me that the surgery done was to tighten the loose tendon of the puronial and reattach it. She had completed three rounds of PT but felt like she was very tight. I began to palpate but found no deformities I tested her ROM and strength which were all excellent compared bilaterally. I made sure to do Kliger’s, Talar tilt, anterior drawer, and bump test, which were all negative. I then discovered she was tight in both calves which was causing her pain. I told her to come in to the clinic Monday and we could begin some treatment to address the tightness. |