Periodicals

I spent part of my day today looking at periodicals that I had put in by Annotated Bibliography. The first one that I read was entitled, "Overuse Injuries in Young Athletes". While the article itself wasn't very helpful, there was a section at the end that talked about recognizing and preventing overuse injuries. I don't know if this will be helpful to me or not in the future, but it might give me a place to start when I talk to people in the future.

The works cited for the article is:
Billhartz Gregorian, Cynthia. "Overuse Injuries Plague Young Athletes." SIRS Knowledge Source. Gale, 11 Jan. 2008. Web. 29 Jan. 2010.

I have been looking over a bunch of other articles that I chose briefly, and they looked to be either as helpful or more helpful than this article was. I hope to be able to blog about those very soon.

First Mentor Meeting

So, today was my first meeting with Mr. Heurich. We talked about what my project entailed. I was telling him how I wanted to have a diagram at the end of my project and what the final project would be. He said he has some ideas about putting videos in as part of the presentation.

I told him about how I hope to lean about basic taping techniques. I can learn those from either Kim Bailey, the high school's Athletic Trainer or from Todd Lazenby, one of Ithaca College's Athletic Trainers.

We talked about not only my goals with how I hope the project will go, but also with how I hope he will help me stay focused, because I have a major problem staying focused.

This is my first time using a blog. I had never thought about using one before Mr. Heurich told me about the fact that I would be using one. This is a new experience for me, and I'm super excited to keep blogging throughout the duration of my project. I will be doing a lot of photography along with videos that I take so that I can illustrate what I am learning and doing, and some of those will be posted on here as well.

First Meeting with Kim

I went to meet with Kim today. I watched as she taped up some of the girls basketball team. She told me that there really wouldn't be a whole lot for me to do until March 8th because the winter sports are over pretty much and the spring sports haven't begun yet. I might go the Boy's Basketball game tomorrow to see what a trainer does at a game, but I don't know if I'll make it or not. We shall see...

Accomplishments

During the two weeks since I've been exited, I've read all of my periodicals that I put in my bibliography. I see this as my success. The periodicals weren't as beneficial to me as I thought they'd be. A lot of them were more about people's experiences in their sports and how they were injured and not so much about how they got better.

I got sick over these two weeks, so there wasn't a whole lot more that I could have done. There was a whole lot more that I had been planning to do. For instance, I had thought that I was going to meet with Kim, but I wasn't feeling well, so I left after 6th period most days. My first meeting with Kim is today after school.

I am going to have my first mentor meeting with Mr. Heurich tomorrow 7th period. I am going to set up my blog and from there I'll be adding most of the information I get to that. Megan Mormile has Mr. H as a mentor and she has a blog as well. Every few days, he will go on her blog an dread her entries and comment on them. In this way, it is like they are meeting more often than just once a week.

I regret that I haven't done more on my project yet, but I am going to really be starting today. I hope to find more helpful periodicals than what I've found thus far. For my goals, they are quite simple, get something done. getting my blog up and running is going to help get me motivated. I think it will be a good thing for me to have a blog. I hope you have fun reading it!

Email

So, it's been a week since I last wrote, my bad. I emailed Kim Bailey the other day and she got back to me. i am going to meet with her on February 22nd. From then, I don't know when I'm going to meet with her. It will depend on my schedule.

I read the rest of the periodicals that I chose. None of them helped me very much. One of them was about dancers with injuries. This helped me with personal issues. I have a herniated disk, so this was a good one for me to read.

I spent some time on a site that helped me look at a certain area of the body and the common injures associated with that area, it was tons of fun. The only problem with it was, that it was a general site, not really a site that helped with certain sports, but I'll try to find one of those too.

That's all for now.

Started some Research

I read a bunch of periodicals on SIRS, one of the schools online databases. A bunch of them, I found out weren't actually about Athletic Training. A bunch were more about gymnastics. Since I am going to mainly be researching gymnastics injuries, I thought this would be okay, but they weren't as helpful as I thought they would be.

I talked to Todd Lazenby, the Trainer from IC I mentioned in the first post. He invited me back to hang out in the Training Room, so I plan on taking him up on that, at some point.

Not much else has happened,

bye!!

Dear Reader

Dear Reader,

For my WISE project, I plan to shadow Kim Baily, Ithaca High School's Athletic Trainer. By the end of the semester, I want to have a diagram and be able to show the major injuries sustained in gymnastics. I want to know how to take care of the injury and prevent it from happening again. For your reference, I am going to Ithaca College next year to study Athletic Training.

I am really excited about starting my project. I have talked to an Athletic Trainer at Ithaca College and he said that I should learn the basics. By this, I mean get my taping skills better and learn how to spot. I'm nervous about getting as much done as I want to get done. There is going to be a large amount of research involved in this project, and I'm worried about putting it off until the last minute.

For the next two weeks, I am not going to be able to do a whole lot because I have a lot to do with dance, but I am going to start meeting with Kim two to three times a week and asking her questions. I could go up to Ithaca College and spend time in the Training Room. After I learn what the major injuries are, I could start doing the research on them.

For Now,

Taylor Dyess