CG Sports Therapy

What s quick week! Lucky really! Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were spent concentrating on my research assignment. I’m really enjoying doing it. On Thursday, we had a mock manual therapy written exam. It was hard!! We then spent the afternoon learning ankle mobilisations. I need some practise of these so get ready close friends and family! It was literally a crash course of them which is a little annoying when it takes me double to time to learn each one. On Friday, we had a lecture on SPSS relationships and correlations etc. I’m enjoying SPSS but it is a massive head frier when you have to learn it all in one lecture. I need more time. Once I get it, I get it, but it takes a little longer! The park run is cancelled because of the weather, but I am actually craving a lie in and relaxed weekend of no work!

Boring week.. AGAIN.. I’ve done absolutely nothing this week and I’m happy! I had clinic on Tuesday which was good, I felt confident and I think I did well. On Thursday, my head was fried. We did arthrokinematics (movement of joints) it literally has friend my head. I was tired and it’s hard. In the practicle, we learnt the accessory movements of the shoulder which is pretty fun! On Friday, it was the introduction to statistics. Another head frier. But I like it!! It’s fun and it’s really cool! I can’t wait to do my dissertation now!

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...

I cannot wait to finish semester one!!! There is one week left of this boring module of rehab. On Monday, we had the worst lecture ever. There was no point in it at all. It just went through what our module leader had been through in his life and where he had travelled which was pointless. On Tuesday, we had a lecture on mental health and its relation to athlete’s in professional sport. It opened my eyes into how far mental illness can change people. A very tough lecture for me to sit through but was very eye opening. Wednesday came and brought the last session of my second rotation of clinic. Surprisingly it went very well. I assisted the third-year student with a lumbar spine assessment which I am very pleased about as I can remember a lot for my exam in January. I am very proud of myself. Thursday brought a lecture about growth and maturation. I did not spend any time listening to it. I’ve been producing my flash cards for A+P spine examination protocols and physiology f...

Studying with Dyslexia With Dyslexia, studying can be extremely difficult, especially with the workload of a Medical degree at university. I spend my days on my laptop, which has special programmes to assist with my needs. At my university, we get the slides a few days before the lecture, so I save these lecture notes and open them up in the lecture to make notes. I type faster than I can hand-write so I think this is the best idea. I use a device called Note Talker. It is a microphone and an IOS app which allows me to record lectures to listen back to in my own time. This app is a life saver! The lectures power through all the slides so having a recording to listen back to when I need to is great! Another piece of software I have is called Claro-Read. This allows me to have my assignments/notes read out to me as I struggle to read and pick up grammatical errors. Having my text read out to me means I can actually hear the mistakes! Some of the mistakes I have made are...