One of my goals for this semester, is to develop professional communication in order to better explain my treatment decisions by going over the injury and intervention with my preceptor or athlete. This has been the most challenging goal to achieve so far because a lot of times my preceptor will just ask me to perform a type of intervention to help the athlete, but I have been allowed to implement my own interventions for athletes this semester as well. Hannah has confidence in my decisions because I explain my goal for the intervention to do to help with the injury. So far I haven’t been told that is a bad idea, but just some adjusts to what I am trying to do. I have really enjoyed being able to make actual decisions because it is what I am going to be doing here very soon. Plus it is good review for my BOC exam to explain what the treatment is going to do. The only thing I wish I would have done looking back on it is go over other treatment options I could use or a combination of the two. I feel confident in my decisions to the point where I feel comfortable being alone for treatments. I still want to run it by Hannah first so she knows what is going. I think once I am on my own that the experience and confidence I have will make my decisions easier to pick from. I remember when I had finished learning about modalities I will still really nervous to make a decision on which one to use because I felt like I wasn’t very confident in my knowledge. Looking back, it wasn’t the knowledge that made me nervous, but the idea of a preceptor asking me what I think should be used to help an athlete. It seems silly to think that made me nervous now because when I am asked that I have my own preferred techniques I like to use for certain injuries. I can always get better at interventions by looking over them and seeing which one may work best, but for now I feel confident enough to help athletes with their injuries.
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