This week I have been working with the volleyball team. It has been really easy going. There are not nearly as many injuries on the volleyball team as the men's soccer team, but the injuries I have encountered are new and I am slightly unfamiliar with them. Currently, I am not familiar with the anatomy of either the shoulder or the hip area, but my preceptor has been great at explaining everything to me so I can help out and learn. This week I got to work on the piriformis muscle located deep beneath the gluteus maximus. I forgot what the technique is call, but I applied direct pressure onto the muscle with my thumb while internally and externally rotating the leg. This was really cool because I could feel the muscle pass under my thumb as I was releasing the pressure in the muscle. I have also learned how to massage knots out. I worked on a patients cafe muscles for about 20 minutes massaging out the knots. I found this interesting because I had always heard people saying they have knots somewhere, but I have never actually felt one before. I was trying to explain what this felt like to some of my friends. The life of an athletic training student entails practicing everything on your roommate and friends. Practicing finding knots ultimately turned into us giving each other massages. A win for everyone!
An assignment for this journal entry is to look over our class objectives and relate something we have seen or done to one of the objectives. The objective I chose is "Know and apply the commonly accepted standards for patient confidentiality." This week I was talking to a friend of mine who is also friends with a member of the volleyball team. My friend was asking if they were one of the people who I treat. I almost slipped up and answered them, but I caught myself before I did. If I had answered yes or no to my friends question I would have violated the confidentiality rights to HIPPA, FERPA, and the athlete. Clearly, this would be bad. I could have been sued and lose my place in the athletic training program if I had answered the question. In the future, I know I need to be more consciously aware of people asking those types of questions, especially if they are my friend. To prevent this from happening in the future I plan to practice being asked those questions, and coming up with my personal way of saying, I can't answer your question.
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This is where I do my weekly clinical blog assignment. There is either a prompt I am responding to, or I just talk about something exciting I saw during the week.
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