Ice Ice Baby

So one day after football practice, my mentor and I stayed a bit later to help ice my teammate's injuries. Basically she taught me what the ice does for injury and how to apply the ice to the correct spot. The ice helps reduce the inflammation of the injury and increase the blood flow around the injured area. The increased blood flow helps in a quicker recovery because too much swelling around the injury inhibits the healing process. One of the key things she told me about icing is that you cannot ice for more than 20 minutes. The reason for that is too much blood flow can cause even more inflammation.

Blog 4: Interview Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  Why?
I have two interviewees in mind, the first is the current physical therapist at Southlands Christian (Victoria), and my second option would be the PT at my old high school, Bassett High School, (Jason) who helped me out while I was a freshman. I would want to interview Victoria because she is more available and I see her everyday because of football practice. Jason came to mind because he has a lot of experience in PT because he deal with injuries on the daily.
2.  You have to ask 5 questions.  What additional questions do you plan to ask?  Ask open-ended questions.  
Some open-ended questions I would have for prepared for my interview would be:

1.What got you interested in Physical Therapy and why?

2. What kind of things have you experienced during your career?

3. Have you every gotten tired of your job? If so, why? If not, why not?

Blog 3: Topic Choice and EQ

1.  List your topic here: Physical Therapy

2.  Write a question that helps to focus your research this month.
What is the best way to set up a recovery plan for an injured patient/athlete?

Blog 2: Summer Mentorship

1. Mentorship log: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xv8_imijJ1SCLYBOvhlZL92uDXhua-JSRVdknUUUIh0/edit#gid=0

2. What is the contact name & number of where you volunteered?

2 Mentors from southlands

Victoria-funesvictoria11@gmail.com, 909-912-2402

Charlotte-626-388-5747      

3. (Need to know) What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience?  List them.     

What is the best way to treat serious injuries such as ACL or Meniscus injuries?

What is the best way to operate a successful PT business

How much does being nice and welcoming play a role in being a PT

Interpretive

4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

hands on experience was the most important because I've always been interested in this job but i didn't really know how to rehab injuries or about different strengthening exercises.

Applied

5. What is your senior project topic going to be?  How did what you did help you choose a topic?  Please explain.

My senior topic is going to be Physical Therapy, what I did consolidated my interest in the human body and how you can for the most part rehab injuries through a planned recovery.