Persuasive Speech On Concussions

Hey everyone! I hope you all have been enjoying your rotations so far. It sounds like some of us have been a lot busier than others this week. I’ve really been enjoying my rotation thus far, my preceptor and his assistant are hilarious, and so it has made this transition a lot easier for me. My mornings begin at 7 with treatments, and then I usually get a break and come back around 1 for afternoon treatments and to cover football practice. On average we see around 40-50 athletes per day ranging from minor overuse injuries to traumatic acute injuries. Surprisingly there have been a lot of concussed athletes this week so I’m becoming quite familiar with the concussion protocol and IMPACT testing. I probably saw one of the worst cases throughout my years of being an ATS on Friday night during the football game.
On a more positive note my preceptors have literally thrown me right into the mix of things. They pretty much have given me free range on what I am allowed to do that includes: taping, evals, rehabs, documenting each injury along with their rehab protocol for that day, even making the decision to hold someone out from practice. Furthermore I have even been given what they suspect to be an ACL/ Medial Meniscus tear, we are still waiting on the results of the MRI, but for now I get to do rehab pre-op and post op once we determine the extent of her injury and schedule her surgery. Although I am a little nervous I’m thrilled to have this opportunity and finally put everything we learned in class into