Blog 26: Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your 2-Hour Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

Being able to discover what I want to do with my future career. Without this presentation and senior year project I wouldn’t know what I wanted to do for college. It helped me get our there into the community to be able to see and work side by side with the physical therapists while they are doing their job. By the time of my 2 hour presentation I have had enough research and experience to just talk about my knowledge that I have gained throughout this entire year. I am just proud of completing this presentation and I also think that this could have been my best presentation throughout my whole 4 years at I-Poly, especially doing it on my own.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.       What assessment would you give yourself on your 2-Hour Presentation (self-assessment)?

AE

b.      What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)

P/AE

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

What worked for me was being able to have actually gone through my own experience with physical therapy. I have been playing volleyball since the 6^th grade as well, which helped me understand what injuries occur with that sport. I got lucky to be in a small physical therapy room and the only volunteer there at Emeritus. I could ask all the questions I wanted, I got to do a lot more that I would have done anywhere else. Such as using their equipment, having my mentor Emilly Savilla assist me into doing treatments on her patients and leading exercises. My mentorship was so much fun and I don’t think I could have gotten that experience from anywhere else.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

What didn’t work was finding other places to volunteer. I tried so many sport physical therapy places and couldn’t volunteer in any of them. I wanted to go to physical therapy clinics that specialized in sport injuries to help me get a better understanding of what a PT would do, because there could be different techniques/approaches that they would take. All of the places I went to were full with volunteers and if I got to go, a week later college kids took my spot. So, all in all, I wish I could of kept looking for more places to volunteer at throughout the year instead of just the summer and beginning of the second semester.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples. 

Easy, college! It helped me pick my major which is kinesiology. I know I want to become a physical therapist and it helped me narrow down my school choices that met my criteria. During mentorship at Emeritus I got to make new connections with all the physical therapist there along with having hands on experience on treating patients. I now know what I am in for, therefore I know my goals and excited for my future to come.

Blog 25: Mentorship

Mentorship Log:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkM2Mkaeu-Y8dDhmUDdlM0stbDZRQzFzU2JnQ1JUR1E#gid=0

or you can go to the mentorship tab on top of my page to see the log as well.

Contact name and # :

Emily Savilla

(909) 394-0304

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

The most important thing that I have gained by doing my mentorship would be by expanding my knowledge in the physical therapy career field. That includes being able to have better communication skills with all different types of patients to being able to do hands on treatments with the assistance of my mentor or another PT. The staff at Emeritus were always friendly and helped me whenever it was needed. I aquired this interactive experience in order to realize how their role is during working hours. Instead of just learning from reading articles, I was able to see everything that goes on in their environment.

How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ? Please explain.

Just by simply observing has helped me further my knowledge with each of my answers to my EQ. I paid attention to when the physical therapists asked their patients questions, which would be part of the evaluation process. Then, it got to the point to where the PT’s would trust me and let me give directions to their patients on how to stretch. Once they started letting me do that, I got to lead exercises and monitor the patients to make sure they keep going and don’t stop abruptly. Also, I was able to see what kind of equipment was being used and for what types of injuries it was necessary for.

 

 

Blog 24: Exit Interview Questions

(1) What is your essential question? What is the best answer to your question and why?

What is the most effective way for a physical therapist to help a patient recover from a volleyball injury? My answers are evaluation, stretching, and strength and endurance training. My best answer is stretching. According to Mayoclinic.com, in order to help recover from an injury; stretching must be done to restore full ROM to the injury site. Also, it’s the most essential process for a physical therapist to help a volleyball player recover from an injury. Your injury will be stiff from no movement and would need to regain the ROM in order to increase its function back to restore its original movement or even better.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

I can say that there was three steps into finding this answer. The first step was during my mentorship. My mentor Emily Savila (PT) explained all the details that goes into stretching. If  it was from hips to a shoulder or knee injury, she would explain why every movement can be so critical. I had worked by her side every morning that I could come in till the afternoon when she had to go home. The second step was my experience. I had to remember when I got injured, what seemed to be the main focus throughout the whole physical therapy duration until I was healed. That’s when I had concluded that stretching was also into my routine every session. We had spent more time on stretching then anything else. The third step was my research. I had to make sure that to be more accurate on what could be an assumption was based on facts as well in articles. From reading Torrey, Lee. Stretching the Limits: Breakthroughs in Sports Science That Create Super athletes talking about stretching and why its important. For super athletes you have to take a slightly different approach since they are more in shape and need to recover faster. Then to articles about whether stretching is good or bad for you in the Mayoclinic articles.

(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?

I had faced a couple of obstacles, but they were a major part for my project. For community service places I had received many problems. Either they don’t accept volunteers, don’t have anymore spots available because they are full or the kids in college took my spot since they are more likely to get those positions. Sometimes I had to be 18 and back then I wasn’t at the time, and sometimes there would be a waiting list.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

APTA ( American Physical Therapy Association), this website had many resourceful articles. It knowledge me in what the physical therapy guidelines were to procedures on how to evaluate or treat a patient. It basically covered all topics. The second source would be one of the most recent articles that I have read. Its called Physical Therapy and Exercise at hog.org. This handbook and everything to what a physical therapist needs to know. Its like guidelines. How physical therapy (PT) keeps joints and muscles healthy, How physical therapy (PT) restores or rebuilds joints and muscles (rehabilitation),Rehabilitation after surgery,  The role of the physical therapist, The physical therapist needs to know about you, and The physical therapy plan.

(5) What is your product and why?

Being able to uniquely adjust to every individuals injury and their mind set because everyone will have different emotions towards their injury, which means you need good communication skills, with people and know how to treat each patient.

Blog 23: 2014 Interview

1. Who did you interview and what house are they in?

Sabrina Sanchez, West House

2. What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?

"I was thinking along the lines of either baking, art, theater, fashion and a couple others. I chose these because I am interested in pursuing them as a career. I’ll most likely do baking though since it would be easier to find somewhere to get an internship."

3. What do you plan to do for your summer 10 hour mentorship experience?

"Since my sister is already a line cook, I was going to ask her to help me out in finding a good place to get my hours. She knows a lot of people in the business and could ask them for me."

4. What do you hope to see or expect to see in watching the 2013 2-hour presentations?

"I was actually looking forward to seeing what other seniors have done to help me decide what I could do or where I might be able to go. Not to mention I can check out what I should prepare for next year."

5. What questions do you have that I can answer about senior year or senior project (or what additional information did you tell them about senior year or senior project)?

“What did you do for your mentorship? Did you like it? Would you do anything differently if you could? Do you have any tips that might help me out?"

What I would recommend would be to check out JD's presentation because I know he is doing it on baking and he did his mentorship at cake mommas. For my mentorship I actually had to go visit many places. I should of started a long time ago like right now if I were you because the problem I kept running into was that either they don’t accept volunteers, don’t have anymore spots available because they are full or kids in college are more likely to get those spots, sometimes I had to be 18 and back then I wasn’t at the time, and then there would be a waiting list. So I ran into a lot of obstacles, so if you get a place for mentorship and it isn’t the best place, take it! It’s a start, it’s better to have somewhere to go then be left behind. I loved my mentorship because I got to go in whenever I wanted, everyone was nice and helped me out. That’s another thing, ask a lot of questions. Working with friendly people will benefit you the most as well

I hope that helps and if you have any more questions you can always ask me.

Blog 22: Final 3-Column Chart

3 Column Chart
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0M2Mkaeu-Y8YmRhSVl6d0gyNDA/edit?usp=sharing

Blog 21:Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) “I, Olivia Pinedo, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

(b) Emeritus Assisted living in San Dimas and Peachwood Physical Therapy in Glendora

(c) 30 hours sheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkM2Mkaeu-Y8dDhmUDdlM0stbDZRQzFzU2JnQ1JUR1E&usp=sharing

(d) I got to talk more with the physical therapists and they have helped me a lot with coming up with ideas for my senior project. They gave me feedback on my activities, what equipment I should use and other props I could have in my presentation room. I got to go to a new facility for a little while called Peachwood where I met new people and got to see what a sport rehabilitation center looks like. They had more equipment and exercise machines than Emeritus. This component mainly helped me setting up and preparing myself for my actual presentation. Such as information I should say, tools I could use and how to organize everything.

INTERPRETIVE

In the pictures in the link below you will see the environment and equipment that’s in the physical therapy room. There is a photo of weights but I have the ankle/wrist weights that you wrap around and do lifting exercise with. Then I have photos of the pictures that they had in their room because I got to study them most of the time that I was there. I got to learn about the body and they have descriptions of certain injuries as well on them. Another picture looks like a brown cylinder looking shape and that is called a foam roller. It is used for the patient’s legs mainly here. Usually the patient lies down and put it under their knee. One photo has a bucket filled with poles, those are weights as well. They are meant for arm exercises. I got to guide the patients to make sure they were using those properly and showed them what they can do next. Lastly, in the picture where there is a blue ankle/wrist weight there is also the most important tool for the physical therapists. Its called the belt. Since most of the patients there can barely walk they use the belt on them at all times. It provides the physical therapists to be able to hold on to the patients better when doing activities. It helps the PT’s get the patients up, stabilize them and helps their safety for any precautions.

Photos:

You can go to blog 14 for click this link for photos as well https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FsC7lXRrFYdCH38i-WTLOUo7j83TJ3IM4wJpwZi3eVU/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0M2Mkaeu-Y8YlFRS2EzSm9PMXc/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0M2Mkaeu-Y8VUJiRnYtZmtBbU0/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0M2Mkaeu-Y8WHI0Y3RyMlBNVWs/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0M2Mkaeu-Y8UUNWVjhwX1RBMjA/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0M2Mkaeu-Y8dXZhaXkyLXFhQ00/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0M2Mkaeu-Y8UlV6c2JBWVR6OW8/edit?usp=sharing

APPLIED:

I pretty much already knew my answers for my EQ but this component helped me support my answers. For evaluation I got to see the physical therapists fill out the forms and see how they evaluated their patients. Not only did I get to see the sheets that they had to fill out but when I got to file their papers from the last 2-3 years I saw how they filled out those sheets at least every week when they saw the patient. Sometimes when I get to Emeritus a little late all the physical therapists and OT’s are at their end of the day shift and are filling out the papers so that gives me time to ask them questions about what they do and what goes on besides the treatments. For my next answer, I got to observe how the physical therapists stretched their patients. Most of the physical therapists were helpful for me because they would explain what kind of injury that person had and why they are doing certain exercises. A lot of the patients I got to see had hip surgeries and went to the physical therapy room at Emeritus. I learned how to stretch the hip conductors and how to get results ( being able to stretch further than they previous could). My mentor Emily, really helped me by coming up with activities and exercises that I could do for my activity for my third answer. She told me what kind of equipment I need and how I need to use time as a key for endurance training and for strength training I need to use proper techniques. For that activity she told me do ladders, box jumps, jump roping, weights, medicine balls, and our own strength.

Blog 20: Three Column Chart First Draft

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0M2Mkaeu-Y8VzNHdjBoYVdZTHM/edit?usp=sharing