Shows the doors connected to Athletic Lab. Perfect for people that get injured at Athletic Lab…they can just walk right through the doors to physical therapy 🙂
Today I started my day even earlier, so I got to see a lot of patients. One of the patients hurt their elbow when they were skiing. Another patient hurt their pelvis after running through pain for months. One of the more common injuries that I came across today were ACL injuries. I was surprised by the amount of ACL injuries and how common they are.
Since hip injuries were another common problem today, Mr. Meszler gave me a list of exercises that could help with hip mobility. Including foam rolling, lunges, and spiderman walks.
Hip exercises that I learned today.
When I came back from lunch, I met a patient with a shoulder injury. I learned a multitude of exercises that she can do to help her shoulder. The PT used a tennis ball to roll out her troubled spot on her shoulder against a wall. Then, she laid flat on her back on a foam roller.
A common exercise is for patients to lay on the foam roller long ways, so your body is over the entire foam roller. This exercise really helps to release tension in your shoulders.
One of the most interesting things I did today was watch dry needling. The PT put a needle into the hurt muscle and moved the needle all around. On one of the patients, the PT used around 50 needles! She had a lot of pain in her legs and feet, so she had to use a lot of needles to work all of those muscles.
Since I couldn’t take an actual picture of a patient getting dry needling, here is a diagram of dry needling.
CA Work Experience Program 2016 