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

Blog 19:Senior Project and ESLRs

1. What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project? Effective Learner

An effective learner assumes responsibility for his/her own learning, actively and appropriately seeks and accesses resources to further his/her own knowledge. He/she consistently works toward becoming an effective problem-solver, develops and poses questions, synthesizes and evaluates knowledge, and shows personal creativity.

2. Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.

This year I think I have been using the effective learner ESLR a lot more than ever! I am responsible for getting all sorts of information for my senior project. I read articles on my topic, call up physical therapy centers, and ask questions to the physical therapists. My topic requires me to look into every type of resource that I can find and use. In order to have a well presentation, I need all the knowledge that I can get. Also, by having all of the information that I am using it makes it easier to come up with activities, and figure out what type of props I can use for my presentation as well.

3. Provide evidence from your senior project to support your claim (evidence is a photo of something you are doing, photo of something you made, etc).

Down below are two pictures of this wonderful book called The Human Body

It goes through the body and has a 3D model built in the middle so you can see a 360 degree view on the human body. It helped me understand the structure of our body and how our bones, ligaments, and muscles work.

 

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is your essential question?

What is the most effective way for a physical therapist to help a patient recover from a volleyball injury?
2. What is your third answer to your essential question (write your third answer in a complete sentence)?

In order for a physical therapist to help recover a patient from a volleyball injury they will need to go through proper strength and endurance training.

( I changed my previous answers) 1^st answer in evalution, 2^nd stretching, 3^rd proper strength and endurance training.

I already researched about my second answer and have gotten feedback from  a professional at the Glendora 24 Hour gym.

3. What are three details to support or justify your third answer (details are examples or facts)?

·          chance for further injury decreases

·          Gain Balance, agility, and proprioception flow from the basic function and proper integration of strength, mobility and endurance.

·         training leads to the other steps proving successful, seamlessly building a lineage from impaired function through advanced, competent achievement

·   Also, previous blog about answers    

4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

http://shongrosse.com/physical-therapy/

 

5. What do you plan to study next and why?

I am planning to volunteer at Peachwood Physical Therapy sports and spine center in Glendora and be able to observe sports related injuries.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

Post 20 open-ended questions for approval you want to ask an expert in the field of your senior project. The first question should be your essential question and the other 19 must help you answer your essential question. Once you have possible answers, you may want to ask questions to help you get a more in-depth understanding of your answers

1)     What is the most effective way for a physical therapist to help a patient recover from a volleyball injury?

2)     What is the importance of evaluating a patient’s injury?

3)     Is there a huge difference between stretching, flexibility, and mobility? And what is their importance in healing?

4)     How do physical therapists use proper strength and endurance training for healing an injury?

5)     Can too many repetitions of a certain exercises harm any ligaments or tendons in the injury site? And how do you know how to specify how many a patient can do without hurting themselves?

6)     What are your thoughts on active resting for the patient? Is that what you recommend patients to do while healing?

7)     What are some proper rehabilitation techniques that are popular with most injuries?

8)     What are some metal emotions you see with your patients? How do you help them not to be depressed about their situation?

9)     What important role does ice play for healing? How does it help?

10)What does applying heat do for the injured area? Can you give some details about the muscles, tendons or ligaments and how it helps repair them?

11)Is R.I.C.E. the only main technique PT’s use? Because I only see that method being used a lot.

12)How important is wearing protective gear while being injured? Ex) crutches, the boot?

13)While being injured does nutrition really take an effect on your healing process? And how so?

14)What can you tell me about what goes on in your body when you fracture something? Ex) ankle?

15)What does your body need to consume when healing besides healthy food? Ex) vitamins? Minerals? Salt?

16)Why does swelling occur? How can it be treated to go away?

17)During your treatments do you only focus on the injured area or the whole body? And how come?

18)Are there any little details that I may not know about that physical therapists need to have in mind that we haven’t talked about yet? If not then what are your opinions on physical therapy in general?

19)Repeat my EQ and my three answers and ask the PT what are some activities that I can do for my project with the answers that I have chosen? Do you have any better answers that I should use? Or change to?

20)How can I make my presentation engaging to my peers and teacher? Any suggestions of what kind of posters, information or demonstrations I should use?

 

Blog 5b update: science fair proposal

Problem Statement:

If a person with an ankle injury goes to physical therapy to recover then the likelyhood they will recover faster will increase than someone who didn't.

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

Content:

1. What is your essential question?
How can a physical therapist best help a patient recover from a volleyball injury?

2. What is your second answer to your essential question (write your second answer in a complete sentence)?
In order for a physical therapist to help recover a patient from a volleyball injury they will need to go through proper strength and endurance training.

3. What are three details to support or justify your second answer (details are examples or facts)?

• you need to do excercises that are targeted for the specific injury in order to regain strength back
• by proper strength and endurance you will need to gain back your ROM( range of motion)
• you need to alternate different types of strength training to work out whole body as well ex) doing cardio, arobics 

From Article:

• Increased muscle mass* and strength
• Increased utilization of motor units during muscle contractions
• Improved coordination of motor units
• Increased strength of tendons, ligaments, and bones
• Increased storage of fuel in muscles
• Increased size of fast-twitch muscle fibers (from a high-resistance program)
• Increased size of slow-twitch muscle fibers (from a high-repetition program)
  Increased blood supply to muscles (from a high-repetition program) and
  improved blood vessel health
• Biochemical improvements (for example, increased sensitivity to insulin)
• Improved blood fat levels
• Increased muscle endurance

4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078022584/947562/SampleChapter04.pdf
mcgraw hills chapter on muscular strength and endurance

5. What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?
 I plan on going more into depth with the body. I want to learn more about how endurance and strenghting effect your muscles, tendons, and ligaments or how it helps build back up again.
 I also have a personal trainer at the gym that I go to and he is always here for me if I ever have any questions regarding my topic which will be very helpful for this answer.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

CONTENT:
(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
I plan on going to this rehabilitation specicially for sports injuries and also hoping by going to the gym and working with my personal trainer who has a KIN degree can help me with my topic as well.

(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
By going to the gym and talking with my personal trainer along with more service hours hoping to do hands on with sports related injuries.

(3) How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?
volleyball injuries are sports related and physical therapy is my topic along with EQ so this would benefit me a lot if I get the right information out of it.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

LITERAL

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

(b) Mentor: Emily Sevilla (Physical Therapist)

At Emeritus in San Dimas

Number: 909)664-3835

And  

Mariaelena Mirador

At Emeritus

909)263-3728

(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours) 

My log: click on the link below

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

(d) Explanation of what you completed.    

At Emeritus there are two different sections that I volunteer in. There is the memory care and the critical care section. In the critical care section, there are all of the patients that need special treatments and care. It is basically the hospital side of Emeritus and in that section in the physical therapy room. Every morning when I could I would help my mentor Emily Sevilla. Not only just her though, I would help everyone in that room. There was PT assistants, PT’s, OT’s and even student PT’s coming in at times. I had a great variety of people to work with and to also talk to. I got to interview my mentor and the head PT Anne. What I usually got to do was to help some of the patient’s treatments. I would assist with the stationary bicycle that they had in the room, make sure their heart rate is good and that they complete their 20 minutes in there without taking too many breaks. I also help the patients with weights, playing ball with them, tell them what kind of movements to do, help them with the weight bars and walk on the platform with bars. I got to do a lot of hands on and I loved that because and most physical therapy places all I would be able to do is observe and that would of gotten old really fast for me.

Next, there is the memory care section. I’ve helped the staff there for many years actually and now since I know everyone there and even the residents, they let me do exercises with the residents all on my own. I have a sheet that has about 20 different exercises and it tells me how many times to do them. These residents have a hard time remembering because they either have Alzheimer’s or some other medical problem that lets them remember everyday stuff. But I love working with everyone at Emeritus and especially getting to do a lot of hands on treatments and leading exercises.

INTERPRETIVE

Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work. 

When I do my hours I don’t really have time to take pictures so I usually make a day to go and just take pictures. In the pictures that I have taken is where I have been volunteering at. I have a picture of my mentor with her patient in the wheel chair along with many other pictures on the physical therapy room. I have mainly all the equipment that we use with the treatments and I got to use every single one of them with the patients and with myself! I also wanted to know how it felt to do some of the exercises myself so I know what the patients there are going through, even though they are much older than I am, I can still feel the muscles and parts of the areas of my body that I am using. In the room I didn’t get a chance to take a picture of it but they have pictures of the human body with all the muscles labeled along with bones, ligaments and tendons. Every time I went in and didn’t have much to do I would sit and just look at the pictures learning about the body. Like I said before the best thing I got out of this was being able to do the treatments with my mentor and other physical therapists. It is kind of scary because you don’t want to do anything wrong or cause the person more pain but luckily I had such a great mentor that explained every single detail about what I was doing and why so that I wouldn’t do anything wrong. Most of the time when I went in to Emeritus I would split up my time. Either 2 hours in the physical therapy room and 2 hours in memory care or one hour there and the other hour in the other section. By doing that I made new connections with the workers and patients.

My pictures: click on the link below

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FsC7lXRrFYdCH38i-WTLOUo7j83TJ3IM4wJpwZi3eVU/edit#slide=id.g9a96bbd5_062

 

APPLIED

How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

This helped me get the viewpoint of what a physical therapist has to do every day at work. I went in the morning until the afternoon with the morning shift. I saw them at work the whole time. Either they were with a patient doing treatments, doing evaluations, paperwork, or consulting with the patient about their plan to recovery. Plus, this is just one small room and all of that happens every day! Well, there is actually more that goes into their days! They also have to clean the equipment (that I sometimes do to help them out), do conference calls (which I get to listen to), order new equipment, figure things out with the patients insurance (which is mostly a problem because nobody wants to pay a lot for physical therapy), and since they work with older patients they have to know their everyday routine and appointments. I got to witness all of this plus a couple of times I got to file their papers so I got to see all of the paper that the PT’s have to do with every patient. By all of this is helped me understand what a physical therapist actually is and does during their work.

Blog 13: Rough Draft of 30 minute presentation

Click the link below to see my rough draft for the 30 minute presentation.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkM2Mkaeu-Y8dEY0TjNBQ3gzdnNUelpDM1VDOWZ1cmc

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1)     What is the most effective way for a physical therapist to help a patient recover from a volleyball injury?

2)     What is the average number of visits each patient usually requires to be safely released from therapy care?

3)     How will a patient know when they no longer need the rehabilitation?

4)     Does the physical therapist mostly rely on me for doing my own exercises or will the PT make the patient dependent on them for relief?

5)     Will the therapy be just exercises?

6)     Are prescriptions prescribed to the patients?

7)     What is usually the main focus for each treatment?

8)     What is the first thing a PT would do when a new comer with an injury comes in?

9)     Can PT’s have  their own different approaches for treatments? Or do they all have to follow certain guidelines depending on the company they work for?

10)  What kind of treatments can be offered for a sports related injury?

Blog 11:

1. Where are you doing your mentorship?
I am still doing my mentorship at Emeritus in San Dimas but now I am also starting to try and volunteer at other rehabilition places for specifically sport injuries as well.

2. Who is your contact?
Her name is Emily Sevilla. She works the morning shifts at Emeritus. I chose her since she made it so easy for my to understand what I am doing when I help her with the treatments.

3. How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?
I have done 58.5 Hours total for my mentorship including the summer hours. You can see my log up on top on my home page labeled Mentorship Hours. 

4. Summarize the 10 hours of service you did
For the over 10 hours that I have one during school it has been really educational. It was a little hard being able to help out a lot since most of the paitents were morning treatments and I wouldn't get there untill after 1pm, so there wouldnt be enough patients around at that time. However, I did get ti help out a lot! It gave me more time to comunicate with the physical therapists since they werent as busy and could focus on me and my questions. All in all I got to help with the treatments, assist with the excercises, clean up the equipment and be able to talk to the staff for more understanding of what I was doing.