DATE:18/04/19

Location:Open Clinic

Number of Hours:1

Overview of Session: 45-minute effleurage and petrissage on quadriceps muscle

Reflective Summary: Client has been squatting 160kg which is almost twice his body weight. Because of this his vastus medialis and vastus lateralis is extremely right and his rectus femoris has muscle bulkage on both sides, especially his left which was the most painful on palpation. Therefor I started on the less painful side which using mostly wringing and my elbow to get deeper. I then moved onto the left side and performed slow elbow movement from the bottom of the rectus fem to the top near the gracilis. I spent 20 minutes on each side.

Areas for further improvement plus action plan: When using my elbow, I found it hard to control as sometimes my elbow would fall off the muscle. I believe I can improve this by asking a more experienced therapist a technique they use when using their elbow.