As an athletic trainer, it is very imperative to take a holistic approach when treating any and all patients. We are supposed to treat the patient, not the problem. When an athlete gets injured, it's not just that one area that is affected by the injury. The surrounding areas could be what caused the injury, could be suffering because of the injury, etc. However, these are not the only things that can be damaged during the injury. Mental health is just as important when recovering from an injury. Poor mental health, such as becoming depressed, lonely, and isolating oneself from others, can hinder the recovery process of the patient. As the patient is progressing in rehab/treatment it is important to encourage them and celebrate new success, as well as discussing with them how life is outside of the clinic. Making sure they are still involving themselves in team activities and friend activities is important. It is also important to make sure those things are being reciprocated, especially for sports teams. As you can tell, treating a patient is more than coming in and working on just one issue that brought them in, many people come in reporting one thing when in actuality something else is causing that problem. An injury can also cause several other problems, especially if the patient is compensating for a lack of one movement, by using or making up another movement to do the same task.
As of this week I currently still have no attempts. I am struggling with finding the time to get in and work on my book. It is nearly impossible to get attempts just with myself and Matt. However, I am trying to do things I know that are in my book, joint mobes and such, but we have not had an opportunity to do that with a patient yet. I am also working on going through my book in order to write down things I can attempt and master while in the clinic. I am hoping to really step it up here in the next week and really bust out the attempts and hopefully start getting masteries. I really need to get it going. I do not want the end of the summer session to hit me like a ton of bricks because I have nothing done in my book. With that said, I will continue to try to get something worked out to get more attempts. WORD COUNT: 408
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