My favorite part of doing clinical experience is I get to take what I learn in class that day and apply it to what I see in the clinic. If I were just a normal biology or chemistry student, it might take years before I get to apply what I learned in class. As much stress as doing clinic experience on top of a busy course load can be it is definitely worth it. I feel like because I get to practice a lot while I am learning, I will be a better prepared AT when I get out on my own.
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My clinical question is,"Do different types of footwear predispose marching musicians to lower extremity injuries during the season?" I was inspired to make this my question when I heard a peer say "Oh my gosh! The marching band has awful gate! They all hyper-dorsiflex!" After explaining why the marching band does that on purpose, I decided I wanted to do something about marching band for my question. I have 6 years of marching band experience, and over those years I have had many different shoe suggestions. I want to find out if a certain kind of shoe will create injuries over the course of a season. I picked Kris Johnson (AT Advisor), Brianne Kilbourne (Faculty Advisor), and Kathleen Jacoby (Content Expert/ Band Director) to be on my team because they all have some form of marching band experience. I hope through my question I will be able to determine the best shoe for marching musician to reduce lower extremity injuries.
I'm back with my primary preceptor doing men's soccer. It feels like it's been forever since I first started. I have learned so much already, and I am able to do a lot of things to help out in the clinic. We just finished learning about ultrasound and stim, and now I am able to do these proficiently in the clinic. I feel a lot more confident in my abilities. I think even the athletes are realizing I'm not too bad. Even when I am working on an area I don't have a lot of knowledge on, I'm able to think through a process to achieve what needs to be done. In the beginning of the semester, if I didn't know something, I probably would have just stepped back and let someone else do it, or ask for a lot of help doing it. I'm excited to see where I will stand by the end of the semester.
My most challenging class this semester is Chemistry. It's really frustrating because there is so much material, and we have to move through it so fast. The only way I am coping with it is trying to stay on top of it. I know if I slip up even in the slightest I will be lost and I will struggle to get back. I have already slipped up a bit, but not because I forgot something or I just didn't do something. It was because I spent a bit less time studying chemistry to study for 2 tests I had on the same day. The way I'm making up for it is by talking to my teacher. He is very helpful and takes the time I need to help with things. I'm sure he is aware how fast we go and this is why he offers this amount of attention outside of class. Besides chemistry, I feel very comfortable in all my other classes.
Finally we are starting to experience some overlap with our classes and clinical. We have learned about stim in modalities, and now we are able to set people up on our own and actually know what we are doing and what it is used for. This week I was able to set up a player on IFC without any trouble. Of course other classes that overlap are anatomy and kinesiology, and evaluation of lower extremities. Being with women's soccer now, I can apply a lot more knowledge from lower into clinical. I'm really interested to learn about the knee in lower because I'm in women's soccer now and I go to men's soccer after this. There is a case of ACL tears on both teams and they are both at different stages. I would be interested in doing a comparison of how they are treated once I have more knowledge of the knee.
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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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