CG Sports Therapy

Week 4 Well you already know I hate Monday’s.  This week’s Lecture was about injuries to the groin and what causes them and the treatment etc. BORING. PRACTICLE WAS EVEN WORSE!!  We had to design a rehab programme for a shoulder dislocation. So we made it Sport specific with active assisted shoulder flexion and extension, pendular exercises and isometric contractions. At the end we made it cricket specific and added in almost a circular action with the ball like a bowl.  Obviously we were wrong. Don’t add in that movement to the rehab programme too early.  Placement was good. Treating a patient who was injured with stretching and palpation.  Tuesday started with a much needed lie in. After the weekend which Chris I needed a catch up on sleep. A lecture on professional conduct and record keeping.  Luckily that came in handy when I had a patient in clinic. We had to plan a rehab programme for their injury and take and write clinic notes whi...

Third week at uni I hate Monday’s. Lectures are boring. Doesn’t interest me at all. The lecture was about Shoulder Rehab. The shoulder is a very complex joint. So many of the bones and muscles can get injured.  Clavicle fractures, acromioclavicular joint separations, dislocations, adhesive capsulitis, rotator cuff injuries and slap lesions (superior labrum anterior to posterior). We looked at rehabbing the shoulder.  In the practical we did rehab programmes from early to late stage with ATFL sprain.  Women’s basketball training started which meant I became their first aider. I get 2 hours for each training session I attend which goes towards the 80 hours of experience I need to get by the end of the year.  Tuesday wasn’t an official lecture. We had nothing to learn about but we looked through the assignment in a bit more detail.  Wednesday was a long day. I started my rehab clinic bright and early.  With the session being the first week...

Second week at Uni Coming off the back of a great weekend of doggy sitting, work and seeing my amazing boyfriend and sister, I had to return to uni.  This week at uni has gone well.  Mondays usually consist of a boring lecture and seminar. However, this week we learnt about stages of healing, which I find very interesting.  The first stage of healing is bleeding. After trauma, the body’s first mechanism of defence is forming a blood clot (scab). Then comes the inflammation stage which is where the affected area starts to swell.  Next comes the proliferation stage where the body starts to lay down collagen fibres to start to rebuild the tissues.  After that comes the remodelling stage. This is where the collagen that was laid down gets realigned to form a stronger tissue. However an injured tissue will never be as strong as the original tissue.  A practical based upon these was next in the day. We spent two hours applying the stages of heali...

What a tough first week back at uni.  New modules, new expectations and new people.  I moved back up to uni on the Sunday night ready for Monday morning 9am lecture for the exercise and rehab module. Learning about exercises for rehab is a great start to the year. Exercises are important for regaining strength, range of movement and flexibility of muscles after injury.  To start the year off with a bang we were handed our first assignment due in the end of October. Giving us one month only to write it. As a student with a learning disability this is going to be tough!! 30 days to write a whole literature review, 14 days to get a draft in!!! Tuesday came and it was the first lecture of the clinical practise module. A hour lecture to kick off the foreign module that blew everyone's minds. In second year, we go in to the sports therapy clinic at our uni to learn and use what we have learnt previously to progress and help clients. We have our own patients and su...

University is tough, both workload and mentally. Moving to university was stressful to say the least! I moved in to halls of residence in September 2016 and what made it worse, I moved in on my mum’s birthday! I chose to move in to halls that had a shared bathroom, because those halls had a catered option. My room was huge! It has everything I needed. A bed, sink, wardrobe, book case and a desk. However, the one thing I needed did not work. WIFI! How was I meant to study when the wifi didn’t work in my room?! As soon as you stepped foot in my room, the wifi mysteriously cut off. This made me very stressed and homesick! Not even phone signal could save me as there were specific parts of my room which could get it.  After countless emails and phone calls to the technicians, I managed to swap my room to an upstairs room in the same hall! The room had a different lay out, less storage but other than that, it was pretty much the same. The catered option enabled myself to g...