There are many roles an athletic trainer has during a rehab. We become a new factor to an athlete’s daily life when we start a new rehab. It’s important to create a good connection with the athlete because this will open them up more and help us figure out how they feel and especially what they are experiencing throughout their injury. If we have a good line of communication open between the athlete, then this makes it easier to find out how to progress them. Something I do when I add a new exercise or add more repetitions is ask the patient how it feels and if it’s too hard, too easy, or just right. This allows me to make modifications as needed for the next time we meet. I also think it is important to have a variety of exercises. Specifically, with my rehab patient, she has an ankle sprain, but she also has a lot of general leg weaknesses. Sometimes when she is doing a balancing exercise I noticed she drops her knee in. After noticing this, I have added some leg exercises into her rehab because it would be horrible if she finished her ankle rehab then turned around and tore her ACL. I feel like a have a pretty decent connection with my rehab patient. She is very open about talking about her daily life. She tells me about her classes, and her crazy roommate, but she also feels comfortable in asking me if I can do something for her in her rehab and asks how things I do work. With how open she is I feel like I have a good understanding of when to push her and when too pull back on some exercises. Another way I can tell if she is struggling with something is if it takes her a long time to complete the exercise. It’s interesting because she doesn’t particularly complain, but if I ask her later how that exercises was she will tell me it was hard. Some people are slow because they are methodical, some people are slow because they are lazy and they drag it out with a lot of breaks; I just happen to notice that if an exercise is particularly hard for her she is slow, but she will complete the exercise anyway.
This week I had 1 attempt and 2 masteries in my clinical packet
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