My favorite part of clinical this semester has been doing clinical experience with the rugby team and educating the players on what we do as athletic trainers and how we are supposed to be there to support them as a team. It has been very interesting to watch them go from being a small group of guys who have never had an athletic trainer before or even knew what we were to being able to have two full teams to practice with and having players from other sports who know what an athletic trainer is and how we are here to help them. My preceptor and I have played a large role in teaching the rugby team the culture we as athletic trainers have. Over the course of the semester we have taught the team the essentials of prevention for their sport. It was extremely stressful for the first rugby game when there was a huge miscommunication. We got out to the field and the whole team walked up to me and the head athletic trainer to be taped and braced, mean while we had been sitting in the athletic training clinic for 2 hours before their game waiting for them to come in to tape them. After this first game we were able to better communicate to the team that we are in the clinic before their games and practices to prepare them for their activity. It had to be heavily enforced that they would be able to receive more and better care if they were to come in beforehand as well. While it took a few weeks for the players to truly understand what we were trying to convey to them, they now have the understanding and many of them will come into the athletic training clinic before and occasionally after practice and games for treatments. This has been special for me because it gave me many opportunities to promote the profession, talk to coaches, and practice being a professional. This also gives me more opportunities reach my clinical goals. There has not been anyone with chronic injuries in rugby for me to have any as a long term patience and be in charge of their rehab, but as more of them become understanding and reliant on our service I am positive there will be someone who will be a more chronic case for me to work on and build my experience with.
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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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