Blog 22: Final 3-Column Chart

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

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 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 9: Working EQ and Possible Answers

1) What was the working EQ you used during your presentation?

ž  My EQ that I used for the presentation was: "What can a physical therapist do to help a patient recover from an injury and prevent it from reoccurring?"

2) Did you decide to revise your working EQ after your presentation? If so, write your revised EQ here. If not simple write "I am not going to revise my EQ at this time".

ž  I am not going to revise my EQ at this time. I already changed it from my rough draft 10 minute lesson plan.

3) What are possible answers to your current working EQ?

ž  R.I.C.E.

ž  Inform about nutrition

ž  Recommend safety gear ex) wrap, tape, guards

ž  Have patient accept their injuries ( physiological side)

ž  Teach the patient proper techniques ex) stretching and exercising

Physical Therapy

a. What is your topic ?

My topic is going to be about Physical Therapy.

Why?
I chose this because ever since I got injured and had to go to rehabilitation myself I just thought how I would love helping people recover from injuries. I loved the idea of becoming a physical therapist so bad that I already started volunteering at a rehabilitation building near my house. Just knowing that if I really tried and could become a PT I would be so happy, especially when I work. When I started volunteering I thought to myself that this profession could never get boring and I would be so content. Now if only I could just incorporate my favorite sport, which is volleyball into my project somehow that would be even better! I can't wait to learn more about my topic. I want to help people be able to move and perform functional activities again. Since I know and have had the experience of being treated for rehabilitation, the patients just want to recover as fast as possible and that it's certainly not fun when you can't do even the simplest tasks anymore.

b. And what do you hope to accomplish this year with this topic (connecting your answer to each of the 4 ESLRs)

iPoly Citizen: I plan to help patients that need rehabilitation by assisting them to do their exercises and to being more mobile until they reach their maximum strength. This relates to the me improving as a iPoly citizen because not only am I going to be helping people being able to feel better but I will also get to enjoy the happiness when the patients recover and are able to go back to their lives and are no longer in pain.

Effective Communicator: I plan to get more educated by my mentor by always asking questions and listening to her so that I could be a successful in that same career. This will make me more effective as a learner because I get to interact and assist with my mentor, which would expand my knowledge. I would also be able to get guidance from her and get more connections so that I could go in the right direction for my profession.

Effective Learner: I plan to get more information about programs, schools, and classes that I should take so that I don’t make any mistakes along the way. I want to volunteer and help out as much as I can so that I can have more experience with my field of interest. This will make me more effective as a learner because as I do research I will get the feel of how my future will be like and what I would have to do to get there.

Effective User of Technology: I plan to take photos of my experience of my mentor ship as well as being able to work some of the exercise machines. This will make me more effective as a user of technology because once I finally get to handle machines when I become a physical therapist I would know how to operate them and know what their purpose is.