As this blog comes to an end I had a lot of fun and had an overall great experience. First, I stuck to my driving question of “How can I learn from a head therapist to encourage and help me to become a therapist myself?” Answering this question is extremely challenging as there is so many intangibles I learned including ways to talk to patients, questions to ask to diagnose, etc. Working with my mentor was a breeze as he sort of controlled what we did. When we weren’t working with patients he was teaching me things about college and life and tips for the adult life. Jeff gave me many pamphlets of information about patients so that I could learn a little more about their injuries and how to treat them. In a way he gave me homework to do which really helped for my understanding and progress of the whole project. Overall I really enjoyed this project and even though I most likely would’ve shadowed this summer, I’m extremely happy this project gave ...
Over the few months I shadowed Jeff, today was the last one I will most likely do. For awhile. I really enjoyed the experience as a whole and learned so much. Jeff is an excellent physical therapist and today I showed him my improvements from the fall of last year and the proof was there. While shadowing today we had a company of Nursery workers come in asking for work done on the lower back. I was not familiar with any of the lower back as Jeff is more orientated around throwing sports. After talking with a few of the workers I learned a lot about their symptoms and it seemed they already had a knowledge of what was wrong and what they need to do for theirselves. A few blog posts ago I talked about how I was waiting on my showcase stats and they were extremely improved from last time. Jeff’s excercises really work which is why he was promoted to the Twins lead therapist.