During this session,  I was providing pregame treatment for the Marjon women’s Bucs team. This included 2 hours in the Sports massage clinic providing treatment to the players that required it. During this session, I provided treatment to the lower back to help with tightness and tension before the game. This treatment was pregame and therefore had to be superficially ensuring not to work too deep into the muscles leaving them to feel weak during the game. This treatment was also for a potential disc herniation, however, as ibuprofen has not worked on this patient since the last time they had treatment it is leaning towards more of a facet joint problem that requires joint mobilizations to be done to help to relieve the pain. At this point, I asked my supervisor to help as I had not done this in my studies yet. As they were over helping with the joint mobilizations they oversaw the taping ensuring I was doing it correctly along the erector spine using K-tape to help support the treatment that had just been provided during the game aiming to prevent this injury from worsening. 

The next of my treatments included a taping of the knee using rigid tape to help support a previously injured MCL as well as taping the same player for other issues including a previous dislocation, patellar tendinopathy, and patella mal-tracking. 

The final treatment I provided was taping of the wrist using rigid taping and K-taping to provide support and stability for chronic instability of the wrist in a player who lifts another during the line out. 

Areas of improvement:

During this session, I didn’t know what a disc herniation was as I hadn’t had lectures on it yet. So this meant that I had to ask for the help of my supervisor as well as googling the injury to find out more information.  I now know that discs that are herniated are known for being bulged, slipped or ruptured, protruding into the spinal canal. This tends to happen due to the disc being in the early stages of degeneration.

I also didn’t know how to do joint mobilizations during this session which I had help doing throughout and have since had lectures in this subject so feel a lot more confident than I did when I was asked to do this during this session.