For this journal I am supposed to talk about how I have been meeting one of my goals I set for myself this semester. I think the one that I have done the best with is my evaluation testing. I wanted to become better at eval by checking functional movements for the athlete and strength testing. I understand the concepts behind them, I just never really used them to help with my decision. I usually just got the history, palpation, and some special tests and called it a day. I still used strength testing and functional movements but not how I should have. I took it upon myself to test the athlete’s function of musculature whenever I was doing an eval. I have became pretty decent with it now but it is still not where it needs to be. I started to improve my functional testing by asking the athletes to perform simple everyday tasks (walking, squatting, throw a ball, etc.). At the beginning of the year it was easy to practice because I had a ton of injuries to eval (preseason) but as the semester has gone on The first eval that I did functional testing was for a wrist. I tested grip strength, made sure he could go through ROM, and asked about daily problems he was having from the injury. It didn’t occur to me at the time to ask about how writing was for him. I eventually did and found out that it was just a little painful. It really didn’t tell me much but I did rule the muscles for the thumb which is important. I understand the testing I am doing will not always show me what the problem is, but it is helping me with seeing what the limitations are. I can better understand what exactly is bothering them which will help me understand what the athlete needs to work on to get back to normal.
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