CG Sports Therapy

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 ...

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...