This semester was a really tough on for me in many aspects. I had a rough time with my health, my friends, and my academics. This is just another example of me persevering and pushing through a difficult time in order to make my number one priorities happen. My primary purpose is to get my education and become a certified athletic trainer. This semester I felt like my classes were all okay, but physiology was a bit harder than I expected it to be, and I had a large amount of stress from my connections class due to the amount of reading required for it. In terms of athletic training, I felt like I did okay, but nothing exceptional. I think this was due to the environment created by my preceptor. I had a lot of high hopes coming into this semester especially after my internship. I felt like I was ready to go and work on my own. Unfortunately, that is not a reality yet, and I have to work under someone and get their approval. The feedback I got from my preceptor was that I need to be more confident in my evaluations. I think this is a fair critique for me. I think I sometimes showed a lack of confidence, but this was because I wanted my preceptor to approve it before I go onto the next step. I only do this because I thought that is what my preceptor wanted me to do, but not I am not so sure. I felt like I had a lot of missed opportunities this semester. While I had some good time at the rugby matches, I did not get as much experience in the clinic as I wanted. In terms of my goals I set out this semester, I did not reach most of them. I wanted to improve my rehabilitation skills by having a few athletes of my own that I would be solely in charge, yet still under supervision of my preceptor. I did not get this opportunity. Going into the spring I am going to push my challenges of this semester behind me. I have a lot to look forward to and some great achievements to be made. I am planning to put in a lot of effort to refine my skills. I know I will be able to get more rehabilitation opportunities as well so I look forward to getting better at making effective and original rehabs for my athletes.
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This week I was able to do my clinical hours under a different preceptor because my primary preceptor does not have many hours right now. Instead, I was able to clinically experience with the athletic trainer who is over the men’s and women’s swim team and baseball. This was nice because I have not had many rehab hours this semester, and she gets a lot of baseball rehabs with a good amount for swim pre-treatments. I was able to see a baseball player on Wednesday and make his rehab for Friday which I got to work with him again. He is working on strengthening his posterior muscle to correct his posture and help his pitching. It is also suspected that he may have a small SLAP tear and the athletic trainer is taking precautions with that as well. The rehab I made consisted of a warm up on the upper body ergometer followed by some stretching. Then I had him do sky punches, gunslingers, banded ABC’s and perturbations. I really enjoyed getting to work on this rehab. The patient is really easy going and works hard on his rehab. This was also good timing because I was finishing up a project to calculate how much revenue I could generate over two weeks. I was happy to have more patient contacts this week then I have had most of the semester. I feel like it gives me a closer representation on my worth-value study than if I were to only have a few patient contact for the whole two weeks. While the shoulder is not my favorite to evaluate, I really enjoy doing rehabs. It’s very different from the ankle or hip which have been my primary rehabs that I have been a part of. If I had to choose my favorite part of the body to eval and rehab I think I would go with the ankle and wrist. These are just two areas that the anatomy makes more sense in my head so it is easier to find what is wrong and how to fix it.
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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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