Blog 20: Three Column Chart First Draft

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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.