The Bad Knee As I see the ball flying up in the Monticello Trails gym, I knew I could catch it and get the other team out. Once I try to jump up to get it, my feet don’t even leave the ground before I feel a horrible pain in left knee. A terrible pain I hoped never to feel again. Dislocation is the displacement of one or more bones at a joint according to the Merriam Dictionary. Dislocation feels like someone ripping one of your extremities off.…
If I can overcome this, I can overcome anything My father had always told me, “A small setback is just only a setup for a great comeback.” I had played football practically all of my life, from Little League Football to High School Football. It was my freshman year of Highschool, and football season had just begun. There was nothing to stop me from playing football for the rest of my life, so I had thought.…
Choosing the person to interview for this assignment was difficult at first, trying to determine which sport and how to contact that person. I first started with the Toledo Mud Hens, but didn’t receive any call backs. I also contacted the Lansing Lugnuts and the West Michigan White Caps and again no call backs. So I looked up minor league baseball teams and the name El Paso Chihuahuas caught my attention. Looking up their front office staff on their website I seen that Angela Olivas is the Director, Marketing and Communications for the team.…
My clinical experience so far has been quite interesting, because I learned basic clinical procedures and preventions that I know will benefit me as a nurse in the near future. During lab, we discussed infection control, personal hygiene, and isolation precautions. These procedures impact my personal health and wellness, because I need to ensure that I am using the proper techniques in order to keep me safe. Also, I know that it is important to make sure my patients are not at risk of developing hospital associated infections.…
Chris Linde stated “My job as an athletic trainer is to prevent injuries as much as possible. I also support with strengthening and conditioning, guidance in nutrition and sleeping, and I also make sure the playing area is safe”. When he was young, he always adored being around the athletic trainer. Subsequently being pushed to his limits and fighting through the pain, there was always someone to care for his aches, and pains. She gave him opinions on what to do when he was alone to prevent fatigue, and serious injuries that would prevent him from playing to his fullest potential or limit him from achieving his goals.…
Hi, my name is Quinton Howard and I am an athletic trainer for the Detroit Lions I earn 35,000-75,000 per year, to get here you need to work hard, go to college and earn the minimum of a bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree, it could take you up to 4 years to complete. Athletic trainers are health care professionals who collaborate with physicians; they can work with athletes and show them how to treat, and prevent injuries through maintaining proper form and using exercise equipment in the right way. Another job that athletic trainers have is to take care of the players, for example, we find ways to keep the players like keeping them hydrated, helping players stretch to keep from injuries, keeping them from running out of energy during…
An Athlete’s Worst Nightmare Imagine you are going along playing the sport you love, when all of a sudden you hear a pop, your knee gives out, and you are on the ground in pain. This happened to me not once, but twice. After going to the doctor both times, they figured out I tore my ACL.…
I was good at tennis. As a matter of fact, I was great at tennis. I was on top of the world, traveling and having a great time playing the sport I loved. That is, until I got my first B in school. I spent days wailing over my lost 4.0 and imagining a better world where I still had my 4.0 GPA, truth be told getting that B changed my live for the better.…
Having experienced a difficult recovery from orthopedic surgery, I believe I will provide a valuable perspective of patient care to the doctor of physical therapy program at Eastern Washington University. Two weeks prior to my junior year of college, I had ACL reconstructive surgery in my left knee. Due to complications in surgery, my lateral meniscus remained torn in spite of the surgery. This exacerbated an already difficult and demanding recovery. Months into my recovery, I struggled with lingering issues of inflammation, pain, regaining range of motion, and a ‘catching’ in my knee.…
It is that time of the year that I love the most, it is starting to get cold. The sun and I do not get along. In the past, I used to hate the winter because my knees would be achy and just in pain all the time. I am sure I am not the only one out there who has had this problem.…
As a fourteen year old I had been playing volleyball for most of my life, so when I injured my shoulder my world seemed to fall apart. The doctor diagnosed me with a labral tear, ending my season early and resulting in a nine month rehabilitation process. The news devastated me, I could no longer see what my future held. I wasn't sure what I would do next but I knew I could not give up.…
There have been many injuries that I have had to overcome. I dislocated my shoulder, then I tore my A.C.L,and then I broke my leg. My injuries have caused me to work through setbacks. They also taught me that every year is a new year and to learn from my mistakes. The last thing they taught me is to make the best out of every situation.…
Do you know what you will be doing five years down the road? For me, it is hard to imagine myself as a therapist though I do share an interest in helping people. The reality is, you can plan for many things but you never can fully predict where life will take you. As a therapist I can identify some potential strengths and weaknesses that I bring to the field.…
Upon entering the rooms of NA about 4.5 years ago, I was told some crazy things, by far the crazies was don’t kill yourself in the 1st 5 year of recovery because you will be killing someone you do not know. I remember thinking what a ridiculous idea. I have been living for 40 years of course I knew who I was. How does someone get to be 40 and not know who they are? Yes it was true that I was a drug addict…
It is my philosophy that hard work will always pay off sooner or later. Whether it be physical or mental, the reward is correspondent to the amount of effort put in. In 10th grade, I had back surgery that rendered my back weak. I set the very difficult goal of regaining my strength and working hard the next year in order to make varsity the following year. My ambition moved me to go to physical therapy and give it 110%.…