| DAILY RECORD OF VISIT TO THE PLACEMENT
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| Date: | 07-01-2020 |
| Group or individual with whom I worked: | Marjon Tennis Society |
BEFORE my placement …
| What am I aiming to achieve from my placement today? What do I need to be mindful of? What issues/questions need to be addressed to ensure I achieve my aim? Do I need to be aware of particular theories, or have particular skills? Have I thought about all of the ‘what ifs’? |
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Before my placement I had developed a more well-rounded stretching phase for both warming up and cooling down after a session, this is as the previous time I had been at placement all the squad seemed to be tense and stiff so if this happened again I was in a better position to treat them than the last time.
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DURING my placement …
| What did I notice happening around me today? What was I thinking and feeling? How was I involved? Did I do anything to intervene and change the situation that I found myself in e.g. how I conveyed a point or whether I decided not to do something I had planned to do? Did my reflections at the time change the session I had planned or my actions? |
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Today a player came to me with a pain on their elbow. I suspected this to be a tendinopathy, the pain was in the lateral side of the elbow and this immediately made me think of tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis). To help the client I Kinesiology taped the elbow to allow more blood flow to the area due to the lifting effect that KT provides and as well as this a placebo effect can be seen to take place.
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AFTER my placement … (based on the Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle)
| Describe the activities you undertook whilst on placement today. Set the context, what you did and what happened. |
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Today at placement I was just monitoring a few injuries, such as the lateral epicondylitis injury as well as the hip pathology to ensure that the conditioned weren’t aggravated by a specific movement and if they were I was able to see this occur and use it in my diagnosis and treatment of the conditions.
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| Document how you felt through-out your placement today. Were you anxious, confident, pleased or disappointed? |
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I was feeling confident throughout my placement today as I felt like I had everything under control and any symptoms that the players had I was able to deal with confidently and efficiently.
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