Worked 9:00-12:30
Today was the first day that I worked at Ragged Mountain Physical Therapy. Diane first went over things that I need to remember about blogging, and then we got started. She told me of some things that I could help out with, when I am not observing her with a patient and learning. There was a variety of different injuries today. The first patient that was in had fallen off of his roof and was having back pain, which was irritated more by continual work in which he needed to be bent over. The next patient was one that had been in a car accident 2.5 years ago and had whiplash. The muscles on the back of her neck were very tight, so ultrasound, massage, and heat were all applied mainly to the trapezius muscle. After this patient, a woman that had had a hip replacement came in, and had been doing very well with her recovery. It was an anterior hip replacement, which means the surgeon goes in from the front of the hip and the muscles do not have to be detached. The recovery has caused the patient to have swelling in the knee, and tightness in the IT band. The last patient was new to Diane. She is a runner and has been having calf pain. Because of the feeling that it is deep, the problem is on soleus muscle. Before Diane ultrasounded, massaged, and stimed the calf there was a visible bump on her calf and tightness in the achilles. She was instructed to not go back to running yet, but can do on the bike and needs to stretch the calf a few times a day.
9:10 p.m.
Sounds like a busy first day. Do you have to do any research on the injuries or body parts to which you were exposed?
ReplyDeleteNot yet, but I was checking out some of the muscles in a book as we were looking at the injuries just so I knew what I was looking at.
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