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!

This week seems to have flown by, and I’m not complaining! My final session of the third rotation of clinic (so now I get lie ins on Tuesdays!) On Thursday the lecture was all about clinical reasoning, which is something I have on the top of my tongue but struggle to speak out sence.  The practicle was on knee mobilisations which I need some work on. This module is hard! We have a mock next week so I need some work!!! On Friday, we looked at the assumptions of normality for spss. I love doing stats. It’s so fun and challenging. Ended the week with a huge PB on park run, knocking 4 minutes off my time!

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!

This week seems to have been the longest week ever.  Back in clinic Tuesday which meant an early morning and a productive day.  I enjoy clinic because I am so organised but I still lack the confidence in my ability.  Thursday came and we started on shoulder mobilisations which were fun. Ha.  On the shoulder you have to use your hips to do the movement so me and Jenna had a laugh doing that.  We looked at all the movements and I am excited to continue with this.  On Friday we had a lecture on our research proposal and ethics. Jeez I’ve never been so confused with anything in my life.  The concept is overwhelming.  This weekend is parkrun and a well earnt relax.  Shrewsbury at home to Plymouth too!

It is starting to irritate me how much free time I have this semester. I am bored and I am tired already. Monday we have a tens exam to ensure we are competent to use a tens machine for treatment. I ran another 10k and smashed my PB by 8.5 minutes Tuesday I did nothing, yet again. Wednesday, THE END OF RED JANUARY! Boy it’s been a long month!! Thursday we were back to lectures with a very hard lecture on the maitland concept for manual therapy. I don’t understand it at all yet, but I’m sure with some revision that will change. In the practicle we started to learn wrist mobilisations. This is super cool how you can treat the wrist in simple movements. If you want to treat pain, you have to use grade 1 and 2, but if you wanted to treat stiffness you use grades 3 and 4. For the wrist you have physiological movements, flexion, extension, radial and ulna deviation which you treat after you have assessed the range of movement and the pain. You also have accessory movements like dist...

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...