Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25th (Day 13)
Today I met with Kelly to work on my paper and presentation for senior project. It lasted a total of 3 hours.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Monday, May 24th (Day 12)
Today was a short day in the training room due to my medical science exam. Kelly and I basically discussed what I should produce for my presentation of my senior project. We decided on a poster board and pamphlets for the knee, shoulder, and concussion. Greg Shine showed up with a cramped neck, and Chris showed me how to work a knot out, and I helped stretch Greg, and then Greg heated up his cramped neck. Like I said today was a short day. I worked on my project and self-evaluation. 1 page of the self-evaluation is done, and one of the pamphlets is done.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Week 2 Reflection
Week Two Reflection
This week was a very busy one in the athletic training room and very tedious because it was the end of the spring athletic season. Everything needed to be restocked and cleaned for the summer. I never knew how much effort goes into making sure an athletic trainer has all the materials needed to perform their duties. This week really gave me a clear picture of what the whole process of athletic training is about, because it included restocking materials, taking care of patients, and getting everything ready for next year and clean for the summer. I want to thank Kelly again for helping me out, it was hard work, I learned as much as I could handle, and most of all it was a good time for me.
One thing I learned was how crucial it was to provide athletes with the proper medical kits when they have home and away games. We emptied out the medical kits and restocked them with everything needed for the teams games. It was amazing how many materials get lost from each medical kit. I would have to say each medical kit needed at least four or five, different pieces of medical supplies replaced. We had to restock twelve kits! That is a lot of materials after we went through them all. Next year I would suggest we do it half way through the spring season also. I think Kelly had me do this activity because she wanted to show me athletic training was not all about taking care of athletes. The first step is very important and that is to be prepared to take care of athletes. She also got me into doing the tedious grunt work that all athletic trainers have to perform, which is the cleaning of their work space. We emptied out the ice chest and cleaned it down, and did the same with all the water jugs, and heating packs holder. This made me realize that everything in the training room is not about the glory from diagnosing an injury or taping an ankle, it is about the preparation to be ready to shine in the moment and help athletes out that are injured.
As for the real learning part of this week goes, I learned about concussions and how to access them. I learned that concussions are very difficult to diagnose, not in terms of actually diagnosing them, but diagnosing what grade of concussion they are. There are so many scales of concussions, that is is difficult to tell which one is the best and the most accurate. This over lapped perfectly with my medical science class because we discussed concussions and how they were to be treated, tested, and diagnosed. I learned all the twelve cranial nerves from Kelly and how to test them all using simple tests. Taking the concussion test was very long and annoying because it asked you the same things over and over again and was not interesting, i lost my attention span half way through. After doing that I now know why athletes with head injuries have to take it. It is because it can be compared with their base line test which you take when you do not have a concussion. One exciting moment was when I was the on site trainer at the softball game and an injury occurred. I had to clean up a deep cut from sliding on the field. I did it properly and Kelly was very impressed with my work.
I benefitted from this week’s activities because it brought the whole picture of athletic training into my vision. I learned about the cleaning, and restocking, and first hand about the treatment needed on the spot during an intense competition. I to thank Kelly and Chris for leading me these two weeks and teaching me so much. I will miss the Proctor athletic training room and staff immensely.
This week was a very busy one in the athletic training room and very tedious because it was the end of the spring athletic season. Everything needed to be restocked and cleaned for the summer. I never knew how much effort goes into making sure an athletic trainer has all the materials needed to perform their duties. This week really gave me a clear picture of what the whole process of athletic training is about, because it included restocking materials, taking care of patients, and getting everything ready for next year and clean for the summer. I want to thank Kelly again for helping me out, it was hard work, I learned as much as I could handle, and most of all it was a good time for me.
One thing I learned was how crucial it was to provide athletes with the proper medical kits when they have home and away games. We emptied out the medical kits and restocked them with everything needed for the teams games. It was amazing how many materials get lost from each medical kit. I would have to say each medical kit needed at least four or five, different pieces of medical supplies replaced. We had to restock twelve kits! That is a lot of materials after we went through them all. Next year I would suggest we do it half way through the spring season also. I think Kelly had me do this activity because she wanted to show me athletic training was not all about taking care of athletes. The first step is very important and that is to be prepared to take care of athletes. She also got me into doing the tedious grunt work that all athletic trainers have to perform, which is the cleaning of their work space. We emptied out the ice chest and cleaned it down, and did the same with all the water jugs, and heating packs holder. This made me realize that everything in the training room is not about the glory from diagnosing an injury or taping an ankle, it is about the preparation to be ready to shine in the moment and help athletes out that are injured.
As for the real learning part of this week goes, I learned about concussions and how to access them. I learned that concussions are very difficult to diagnose, not in terms of actually diagnosing them, but diagnosing what grade of concussion they are. There are so many scales of concussions, that is is difficult to tell which one is the best and the most accurate. This over lapped perfectly with my medical science class because we discussed concussions and how they were to be treated, tested, and diagnosed. I learned all the twelve cranial nerves from Kelly and how to test them all using simple tests. Taking the concussion test was very long and annoying because it asked you the same things over and over again and was not interesting, i lost my attention span half way through. After doing that I now know why athletes with head injuries have to take it. It is because it can be compared with their base line test which you take when you do not have a concussion. One exciting moment was when I was the on site trainer at the softball game and an injury occurred. I had to clean up a deep cut from sliding on the field. I did it properly and Kelly was very impressed with my work.
I benefitted from this week’s activities because it brought the whole picture of athletic training into my vision. I learned about the cleaning, and restocking, and first hand about the treatment needed on the spot during an intense competition. I to thank Kelly and Chris for leading me these two weeks and teaching me so much. I will miss the Proctor athletic training room and staff immensely.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Friday, May 25th (Day 11)
Today I met Kelly at 9:30. I worked out from 10-11:15. I returned to the training room at 1. I signed Kelly's yearbook with a long and detailed thank you for letting me do senior project with her. We cleaned out the freezer and let it melt outside of the athletic training room. After we did that it was time to go to the volleyball game. Since Kelly was playing for the faculty team Nik and I were on duty as the real athletic trainers. The game looked like a lot of people would be injured due to Allie's pitching. However, only Eric had a cut, which I patched up with ease. The game ended around 5:30. We got back and cleaned the water jugs and went to dinner.
Total Hours: 5
Total Hours: 5
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Thursday, May 20th (Day 10)
Today I reported to the athletic training office at one, after going to assembly, working out, and eating lunch. I started out the afternoon performing a few ankle tapes and storing different shelves from the training room. Today we did a lot of cleaning and maintenance today that I didn't know was involved in the job. Before we got to all the cleaning and all that jazz, Nik, Hannah, and I learned how to backboard a person in a spine board, a very valuable skill to know. We learned that the person in control of the head and neck is the person in charge. They tell you when to tilt the person to a neutral position and when to let the person down. Then you strap them in with two diagonal straps across the chest and two straight across the legs. After we were done strapping and back boarding we moved a cabinet upstairs and other supplies because it is the end of the season and time to clean out the training room. After we did the moving, we went upstairs to get supplies. We stripped all the first aid kits and resupplied them. I got to learn what is necessary to be on hand when an injury occurs on the field and an athletic trainer isn't present or even when they are present. A lot of thought goes into what is needed in the medical kits. After we did the medical kits we went into cleaning mode. I vacuumed, cleaned off all the hard surfaces and tables for injured athletes. We cleaned out the ice machine and resupplied the drawers with all different kinds of tape that could be needed. We also cleaned out the heating pack heater, that contains hot water in order to heat the different size packs. One thing I forgot was that Chris taught me how to make a finger splint. Reconvene at 9:30 tomorrow morning.
Total Hours: 5
Total Hours: 5
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Wednesday, May 19th (Day 9)
Today was the last game day for Proctor for the spring season. I met Kelly at 10:30 in the athletic trainer's room after my medical science class. When I got to the training room, I went over the cranial nerves, reviewed them and clarified any issues I had with them to Kelly. I think she will probably quiz me on all of them tomorrow. Nick Libby gets a special shout out today for his volunteer work. After Kelly ran over the assessments of the shoulder and the knee, yet another time, Nick graciously volunteered to have the tests performed on him. I performed knee tests for patellar tracking, ACL, and osteochrondral defect. I think I am going to remember all the tests from all the practice I had. Today we did our fair share of cleaning and and moving. Chris, Nik, and I navigated a large cabinet up the stairs near the gym, and put it into storage. We also brought a new table down from storage to put into the rink. This table will be used for injuries that occur in the rink and is located near the varsity locker room. Later on we did waters for the games, most of the games were cancelled due to weather, however the varsity lax alumni game was still held. After making the waters and putting them out, and made heal pads for taping ankles, which is ripping square patches and putting an adhesive on the squares so they can be stuck on the ankles of the athletes being taped. After practice taping three ankles it was time to go play in the alumni game.
Total hours: 5
Total hours: 5
Friday, May 14th (Day 5)
Today I met Kelly from 9:30-10 to go over the muscles and injuries of the shoulder. At 1:30 I returned to the athletic training room to fill the waters. From 2-3 I taped shoulders including substitute slings, and denying movement backwards and forwards. At 3 I left for game 7 of the Bruins- Flyers series.
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