4/22/2017 0 Comments Reflective Journal #13Last semester, I said that I felt least confident when asked to perform an evaluation alone. This has greatly improved this semester. I feel more confident in my knowledge of common injuries and how they present, and I feel that has had a tremendous impact on how I feel while performing an evaluation. I believe that I have improved greatly in my palpations, and this is partly because I have just been exposed to it more. I believe that palpations are something that you can only improve in by practicing it and familiarizing oneself with them. Being able to perform more trigger point work on athletes has played a big role in my comfort level with palpations. By performing trigger point, I have been able to practice feeling for abnormalities within the muscles, feeling where one muscle begins and the other ends, and practicing how hard I need to feel during palpation. Additionally, I have learned to not freak out when the athlete presents with something unfamiliar to me. It’s very rare that an athlete presents with textbook symptoms for an injury, and that is okay. I have learned to take it one bite at a time, and that it is okay to ask for help when I am faced with something challenging.
This past semester, I was not able to experience many rehabs, but I enjoyed those that I was involved in. This semester I was able to be involved in a lot more rehabs, and I still feel the same way about them. I love to see the athlete improve and work hard (most of the time) to get better. I am thankful that I was able to be a part of the rehab process more this semester. Overall, I feel that I have grown as an AT student and in my skill set; however, there have been quite a few problems as well. I feel like I have lost my excitement for the process, and sometimes feel like I do a lot, perhaps too much, learning on my own. I oftentimes have to be “re-taught” things in the clinic because I still do not know the information from class. There have been quite a few times that I have wondered whether or not that this is the best academic track for me, and have done a lot of praying about it. However, I will continue doing my best to keep learning in the AT program as long as I am still here. This week we had a head and face practical where I received approximately 19 attempts, some of which will hopefully be mastery.
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