CG Sports Therapy

This week seems to have lasted forever!! However, it is only a short blog this week! Monday was once again spent watching Netflix, printing out miscellaneous items to file and making infographics for upcoming/ past tests and topics. Tuesday was very boring, again, no lectures so I spent that day in bed on Netflix and doing tasks on my to do list that were not of major importance. Wednesday again was spent doing to do list tasks to get them out the way. I lead such a boring life! It was my first official day in university, we have manual therapy on a Thursday which is a treatment for the joints. It is very hard to understand in my opinion so I will need to do a lot of work on this! We spent the day looking at soft tissue treatments including frictions, trigger points and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF). It was quite fun, however, after RED January, I have tight muscles particularly hamstrings and trigger points were painful. On Friday, we got to research our...

First week back into semester 2. Exams are over!!! This semester we have Monday’s off! I spend my dad being productive with a run, collection of my bullet journal, and catching up with Netflix! Chilled day! It was brilliant after the stress of exams! Tuesdays lecture was ok, our lecturer talked her way through her own journey of being a sports therapist! It was a good lecture and shows how far we can go! Very inspiring! Wednesdays are for placement and clinic, which I had neither, so again it was a run and Netflix kind of day! Thursday was a shock to the system with a completely new module which was hard. It’s full of new information and it blew my mind. I hadn’t wrote for a month before that and we had an in class test on articulation, joint types, degrees of movement and end feels. It was a kick up the bum to keep up with my anatomy revision. The module is called manual therapy which is treating the pain with movements. It seemed pretty hard when I had to be a model for the exam...

First year was an emotional rollercoaster, however I got through it. For first year, I studied massage, examination and assessment of peripheral joints, anatomy and physiology, kinesiology, critical enquiry, and exercise therapy. As you all know, I hated exercise therapy in second year, and this was the same in first year. The only difference was, we were prescribing exercises for the healthy athlete in first year, progressing to the injured athlete in second year. I don’t know if it was the lecturer, the content or the fact it was first thing on a Monday, where I felt my weakest after coming back up to uni from a weekend at home. During the first year, this module was hell. The lecturer was boring and the content was even worse. For practical’s, we would spend the time doing nothing productive. Exercise therapy was graded with a case study assignment and a practical exam on leading an exercise class. The case study was based on a scenario, for me this was designing an upper limb ...

How I revise for my exams: Since I have discovered I am dyslexic, my revision techniques have changed dramatically. When I was in school revising for GCSE’s and A-Level’s, I created posters and used the pre-lined flash cards that you could buy from stores. Whilst at university, I have made my own flashcards on the computer. I used PowerPoint and split the slide in to 4 even boxes and proceeded with typing everything I need to know for my exams. I have flashcards for every module I have studied so far, including a different set of flashcards for each anatomical region and its assessment techniques. Having something that I enjoy doing, flashcard making, makes revision easier for me. Having to read my notes/ research to make the cards, then typing them in to boxes forces me to process the information twice before I have even started revision. Another thing I have started to do this year is recording my voice reading out the flashcards and listen to it back. I am not s...