Date: 18/06/2021

Hours: 11

Total hours: 171

 

This session was in a gym based clinic with Scott Silsbury in Newton abbot. This included a variety of clients of different ages and back grounds.

Some of the clients seen during this session were all for similar injuries with very similar treatments. Below are some examples of these and some of the sessions which was most interesting during the day.

The first client seen was for low back pain where the laser was used to help relax the muscle using light waves. Massage was then applied to help promote blood flow and lymphatic drainage. After this the client had felt a decrease in pain of the lower back and glute muscles.

This next client was a builder who carries a lot of weight, however has had to recently take time off work due to a pain in the shoulder. After a subjective and objective assessment this was believed to be a rotator cuff impingement with the nerve being compressed resulting in pins and needles down the right arm. treatment provided was with the use of the laser from the occiput across the muscle of the trapezius, the supraspinatus and to the acromion joint. Massage and shoulder mobilisations were then applied.

The next client was a follow up for a female who had previously completed treatment for breast cancer and was suffering with hip pain. This was a gym based session which involved a warm up on the cross trainer, 4 sets of 8 squats where the weight was increased slowly. The next exercise was a superset of the quads and hamstrings in leg extension and hamstring curl machines for 4×8. The final exercise was a mini circuit consisting of 100m row, lateral step ups, dynamic lunges, glute bridges on a bosu board and then dead bugs. This circuit was completed 3 times.

This was an interesting session as this meant the session was lead personally and the progression of each of the clients was becoming more clear each week.