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.