Meeting with Kim...Day 2

I met Kim again after school today. Mary Rose and Kara were there again, along with Bob Wu. It was a lot of fun. I got a video of Bob getting his ankle taped, and I'll put that up here soon. A girl came in and had to go in the ice bucket because she rolled her ankle. I do not envy her that. The bucket was half filled with ice and then water, and she had her foot in there for fifteen minutes.

We went out and saw the Girl's Lacrosse practice today. Kim was talking about how it would be easiest if each high school student was assigned to an IC student and a team, that way it wouldn't be so crazy everyday trying to decide who would go where because after school, the training room is crazy. It was fun today, Bob kept things really light. I know I am going to have a good time working with Kim.

I am going to try to go back either tomorrow or Thursday...we'll see.

Pain relief for runner's knee from RunnersWorld.com

Pain relief for runner's knee from RunnersWorld.com

I found this website with Mr. Heurich and it shows some cool information about taking care of yourself and preventing injuries like runner's knee if you are a runner. The website is runnersworld.com.

Mentor Meeting 3/9/10

Today is my third meeting with Mr. Heurich. I filled him in on what I have done lately...keeping him apprised of what my progress is.

What I've Done Since Last Meeting

• Met with Kim Bailey for the first time and saw her taping some of the athletes
• Looked up some videos of taping knees and ankles on youtube (will blog about some of the videos that I liked and that were useful)
• Read another periodical online, however it was of no help
• Set up an appointment with Dr. Getzin for the 24th of March to talk to him about my back along with talking about common injuries in sports.

What I plan To Do

• Before the next meeting, I am going to come into the library and look at some magazines that Mr. Heurich and I found. One magazine is DanceSpirit, another is Runner's World to se if they have anything that could be useful to me.
• I am going to meet with Kim Bailey again today and any other day that I can to keep going on my interning. I will talk to her to see if I can find out any more on the common injuries that she works with. I don't know that I will have a lot of time to do this because it is the beginning of the season and she is going to have a lot to do getting ready and getting Impact Testing done. Impact Testing is testing to see if an athlete has a concussion or not to start the season.
• I will blog about any videos that I found useful and interesting from YouTube.
• I am going to work on making my blog media-rich. This will include videos, pictures. Anything that I learn or want to learn will be included from now on.

First Meeting with Kim

After school today, I had my first real meeting with Kim Bailey. At first, we were just in the Training Room and she was taping people's ankles and toes and knees. Brandon Jordan came in and had to do some shoulder stretches with a band because he has problems with his shoulder.

We went out the football field and watched the Boy's Lacrosse practice for a little while. There really wasn't much to do. Kim said herself that until there is a game that a lot of the job of being an athletic trainer is standing around.

There are four IC students that are going to be shadowing Kim along with myself, Bob Wu and Matt Foote from the high school. Today I met Mary Rose and Kara, they are two of the students from IC. I think it is going to be a lot of fun working with Kim this semester.

Class Meeting

Today we had a class meeting. We talked about the journals that we read for homework. A bunch of people liked the journals that they read; I however, did not. I thought it was not strong, and that it got weaker as it went.

We also talked about fundraising. This didn't apply to me, since I'm not doing anything that involves needing money or supplies to go anywhere or do anything. It was a pretty chill class period.

It's so difficult to go to class on these Mondays. I am so used to having 8th period free, and I love it, to get other work done so that I can do my project after school with Kim, or when I go home, and since Mondays are my late night with dance, it's difficult. But, oh well, you deal, I guess.

Taping Video

For part of my project, I wanted to learn some basic techniques for taping of all kinds, whether it be ankle, knee, wrist, whatever. In my meeting with Mr. Heurich the other day, we found this video and I watched it in its entirety at home that night and it looked really interesting, and answered a question I had when I went to see Kim last week. I saw her tape an ankle for a basketball player, and I wondered what the things were that she was putting on either side of the ankle, and I didn't have a chance to ask the question, but this video answered that question for me.



If you don't know, a sprain is when the ligaments stretch or tear. An inversion ankle sprain that was mentioned in the video is when the ankle is rolled to the outside thus either stretching or tearing that ligament. The heel lock that he was putting on after the stirrup help to prevent this from happening.

Second Mentor Meeting

I met with Mr. Heurich today and we talked about two different topics. One was what i had done since the last mentor meeting that I had last Tuesday, and the other was what I am planning on doing in the next week or two.

What I've done since Last Tuesday

• I read multiple periodicals that I had picked out and put in my annotated bibliography before I even really started working on my project. Some proved to be helpful while others weren't. There were one or two that I got a lot of information on and that I will be using in the future. (Soon I will post a blog entry about the articles that I read.)
• I had a doctor's appointment with Dr. Andrew Getzin, who is a doctor at Cayuga Sports Medicine. I was talking to him about my project while I was having my appointment, and he said that I was welcome to go and visit him at Ithaca College if I wanted any hands on experience.

What I plan on doing in the next two weeks

• I am going to meet with Dr. Getzin most likely this Friday to see what he can tell me and who I should get in touch with.
• I will be heading up to Ithaca College to talk to some of the professors in the Athletic Training program. If I could get an appointment, I would like to meet with Paul Geisler to see if I could go to his class and observe every now and then.
• I am going to start meeting with Kim Bailey next Monday, March 8th. The spring sports are going to start then and I will be able to do something as far as helping Kim and learning some of the information that I want to.
• When I meet with some of these people, I hope to find out some of the more common injuries associated with gymnastics. When that happens, I can start researching those specific injuries.
  
  

Self-Assessment

I think I need to get working more now that i have a lot of the starting points. I said in my original two week plan that I wasn't going to be able to do a whole lot at the beginning of the project because of dance, and that proved to be true. However, now that I have a lot of my competition season out of the way, I should be able to focus more on getting the work for my project done.

I have been able to work occasionally on what I wanted to do, and when I was able to, I got a lot done in a short period of time, so now with the time that I have, I will be able to get a ton of research done.