| DAILY RECORD OF VISIT TO THE PLACEMENT
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| Date: | 09-12-19 |
| 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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The aim of my placement today is to further analyse and aim to provide some relief to the player with the hip pathology, as well as this I will aim to treat any other players who may present with injuries being mindful to always maintain my professionalism while pitch side and while treating.
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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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The plans that I had for placement changed due to the lack of numbers, the player with the hip pathology wanted to take part in training instead of having further work done. For this I gave the athlete the stretches I was going to work through it with them but instead I told the player to do the stretches in their own time and if their pain was reproduced or got worse then they were to stop.
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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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The main activity that I was involved in at placement today was a potential tendinopathy in the Achilles tendon. This occurred through an overstretch on the serve. The treatment that I administered was an icepack to the affected area and the player sat out for the rest of the session. I told the player to rest the area for up to three days just to ensure that all the inflammation was present when seeing me again this is as the inflammatory stage of tissue healing lasts up to 72 hours. after this I recommended the player did some isometric exercises on the area through plantar and dorsi flexion in order to try and strengthen the Achilles in an attempted prehab of a more severe Achilles tendinopathy.
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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 at ease throughout placement today as there wasn’t a challenging time. I have found that with dealing with more injuries over time my assessments have been a lot calmer as I am able to distance myself temporarily and allow myself time to think whilst also carrying out assessment.
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| Evaluate today’s placement activity. What went well, what went badly, what would you have done differently? |
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I believe that the placement went well due to the fact I was able to eliminate the pain that the client was feeling in the Achilles and although it is frustrating that I wasn’t able to work with the other injured individual with the hip pathology the stretches that I recommended should have a good outcome to the player.
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