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?