Two Hour Presentation Student Assesment

1) I would give myself a P
2) The one thing I think I did well on the 2 Hour Presentation was content because I was able to talk past the thirty minute requirement without repeating anything.
3) What I think I did well on this project was most likely the interviews. I asked very specific questions that pertained to my goal and got a lot of information out of them. What I could have done better on was the research checks. I had great sources but there many of the times when they were too informative and I should have spent more time finding some that directly concerned my eq.
4) EQ is "What is the best way for a Physical Therapist to help an athlete successfully return to basketball?" and my best answer for it is to instruct proper body conditioning.
5)  The last month of culminating events has not changed my answer for my EQ. Actually it has created a more solid basis and given more reasons why the answer I chose is the best one.
6) A suggestion I have for improving the senior project is maybe putting the 20 minute presentation closer to the two hour as the feeling you get from the 20 minute is still fresh in your mind.
7) For the overall senior project I would give myself a P+ because I have met with every requirement and that is what my current grade for it is,

Service Learning

(1) LIA Response to blog:
Literal
• Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties

Scanned Copy (Some of the dates are out of order.)

-I regularly re-stock linen cabinets with towels, pillow cases, wash clothes, and gowns.
-Prepared therapy beds by wiping the leather surfaces and leg supports, raising the bed, opening privacy curtains, diposing of used linen and ice bags, returning lumbar/thoracic/cervical heat pads to hydrocollators.
-Wipe down used excercise machines and equipment
-Put equipment away
-Clean hydrocollator
-Photocopy papers
-Observe P.T.s work with patients and assist if needed


• Contact Name & Number
Casa Colina Centers For Rehabilitation
Human Resources: Rose Prieto
HR #: 909-596-7733 ext.2154
Email: RPrieto@casacolina.org

Interpretive
The most important thing I got out of volunteering at Casa Colina would have to be seeing first hand how Physcial Therapists interacted with their patients. P.T.s instruct and guide patients through their rehabilitation process, but how well it goes is ultimately up to the patient's will and cooperation. So what I noticed during my time in service learning is that each P.T. had an "easy-to-talk-to" approach with their patients. They cultivate this relationship by showing sincere interest in their patients and casually talking with them while they peform their exercises. I saw that having this friendly attitude is important because its makes patients comfortable enough to speak up about problems they have about their health. This makes things easier for P.T.s because they won't have to probe their patients as much and they can gauge how well the rehab is progressing.

Applied
Service learning at Casa Colina has helped drive my senior project. My answer about instructing proper body conditioning was first discovered during my third interview. The other answers also fell into place as I observed how things worked in the rehabilitation clinic. Watching physical therapy in action allowed me to assess whether or not which answers were actually realistic.

2 hour Presentation Rough Draft

(1) What is your sponge activity?
I thinking about showing the class an edited video montage of basketball injuries.
(2) What do you plan to do and say in the introduction?*
-briefly talk about how I came to this topic and formed my EQ
-define my EQ
-outline the lesson plan
(3) What do you plan to say in your foundation?
- explain what a physical therapist is and what they do
-then show the connection between injured athletes and p.t.s
-examine how p.t.s develop an athlete's rehab program which will lead to my first answer
(4) What will your 2 or 3 answers be for your 2 hour?
1. Anatomical and Movemental Knowledge of Typical Injuries in Basketball
2. Instruct Proper Body Conditioning
3. Teach Safeguards Against Future Injuies.

(5) What activities will you do for each answer and why?
Ans 1: Some sort of activity that gets them to name the anatomical structures involved in certain basketball movements, maybe a picture diagram that they have to fill out
Ans 2: Have them do exercises that targets muscular strength, flexibity, endurance
Ans 3: teach F.I.T.T. formula , S.T.O.P.(initial injury assessment), R.I.C.E.R. (intial injury treatment), how to detect overtraining

(6) How do you plan to conclude your 2 hour?*
-state my best answer and explain why
-discuss my three most meaningful sources
-what i gained from my experience in this project and my product from it

(7) How do you plan to decorate the room?
I dont really have any good ideas. Maybe pictures of basketball triump and injuries or maybe cover the walls with inspirational words. Once again i dont really know yet.

(8) What supplies/resources will you need to make your 2 hour possible?
-powerpoint, worksheets for the activity, maybe some light workout equipment( i havent decided what specific exercises i will have them do yet).

Independent Study Component 2

Content:

1. Log
-For the first part of my Independent Component 2, I attended a first aid class on 2/26/2011. Then beginning from 12/5/2011, I played basketball on Riley's team, Bromo-sapiens for almost every sunday.
2.Posted Evidence (Example: For a college class, take a photo of your transcript and upload it).



I scanned that cards that certify that I am first aid trained.

The team jersey that I used.


Literal

(a) Statement saying: “I, Muhammad Noor, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

(b)  The First Aid class was supposed one class that lasts for nine hours and a half, but the class actually went a little past ten hours so I will count it as ten. For the rest of hours I participated in the Pacrim Basketball League on Riley's Bromo-sapiens team. Each game was an hour but I practiced an hour before before each game. I played on ten of our games so that adds up to about 20 hours and 30 in total.

Interpretive
The First Aid Class is applicable to sports-related injuries and provide me with injury prevention skills. The class description included topics such as responses for breathing and cardiac emergencies, soft tissue and skeletal injuries. I changed the second part of my plan to complete this independent component. I couldn't manage to get into the sports injury screenings as I had wanted, but as it turns out I had already started on something that work as part of independent component. When I decided to specify my essential question to basketball, I realized I could use the time I spent on Riley's basketball team as hours towards my Independent component.

Applied
Well the Red Cross First aid class definitely provided necessary information to answer my eq. It taught foundational injury assistance and prevention, which is part of my third answer. I also got good ideas for activities for my presentation out of this, such as proper ankle wrapping. Also my experience in the basketball team gave me vital perspective of what kinds of strains and pains are common. For example Jeremiah sprained his ankle after a jump shot. Without seeing first hand the motions that caused the injuries, it would be difficult to prepare prevention strategies for them.

Independent Component 2 Update

(1) What are you doing to fulfill the 30 hour requirement for this component?
What I have done so far is completed my first aid class. I have yet to do some hours at the injury screening clincs. I also plan to do something about basketbal because I will probably focus more towards basketball injuries.

(2) What are you currently working on? How many hours have you completed?
As of now I have completed nine hours and 30 minutes. I am going to start helping out at the injury screening clincs.

(3) So far, how is it helping you with your essential question?
Well the first aid class gave me more injury prevention knowledge which is one of my essential question answers.

Creative Expression

My idea for this art based presentation is to do something along the lines of surrealism. I would either paint it on a canvas or photoshop a picture drawn by hand.  The actual artwork  would depict the human anatomy and some sort of physical injury towards one of its systems (like cardiovascular or musculoskeletal). I picked surrealism because its bascially the distortion of reality and I feel it would help show the actual body structure while capturing the emotional aspect of sustaining injuries.

The Product

The product of my senior project that has been the most prominent so far is my ability to talk to professionals. I have noticed that there is improvement in the way I present my knowledge and understanding of my topic. If compared with a time before my senior project, a difference of how strongly and detailed my speech can be seen. This growth can be said to be derived from my service learning, interviews, and science fair. It is in those situations that has pushed me into becoming better at sifting through the knowledge in my head and transitioning them effectively into "to the point" sentences.

4th Interview Questions Pending Approval

1)  What is the best way for a Physical Therapist to help an athlete successfully return to their sport? 

2)  What sort of habits lead to sports injuries?

3) How to do you know what intensity of exercising athletes are ready for when they first enter into therapy?

4)  How do tendons, ligaments, and muscle tears heal?

5) What are ways you help athletes deal with the pain?

6)   What are examples of functional exercising?

7)    What are some injury prevention strategies?

8) What are key things to keep in mind when attempting to strengthen the muscles around the injury?

9)   How can you tell if an exercise method is really making a difference?

10) What usually are the concerns athletes have with their situation?

11) How do you develop a rehabilitation program specific to the patient?

12) What kinds of injuries put athletes out of the game longer than others?

13) Could you describe how the body has to move in order to tear a muscle?

14)   How does a patient work on flexibility if they have a joint injury?

15)   In what ways can muscle memory training be integrated in rehabilitation?

16)  What do you think is the most effective way to prevent future injury?

17)   What kind of exercises do you ask your patients to do at home when they get to the point they are able to?

18)   What are the requirements for something to be considered body conditioning?

19)  What is the most common sports injury you deal with and why?

20)  What do you find most effective in progressing the rehabilitation more quickly while being efficient?

Independent Component 2 Plan

The independent component is an opportunity for you top select a direction and create your own component. Each component must demonstrate 30 hours of work. There are two components. Please remember to review the contract.

1) Discuss possible ideas you have to complete this requirement?
Well I have already signed up for a First Aid class at the Red Cross and I will be taking it on the 2/26. This class is 9 hours and 30 minutes long. I plan to fill up the rest of time requirement by volunteering at the sports injury screenings at Casa Colina which is different from the kind of work I already do for service learning.
 The injury screenings are every sunday and ae open for three hours. If I start doing that I should have 30 hours by April 29.

2) How will these idea(s) help answer your EQ?
Basically this independent component plan will help me fill in evidence for what is currently my 3rd EQ answer which is, "Collaboration with the coaches, physicans, athletes on future injury prevention. The First Aid Class will be applicable to sports-related injurys and provide me with injury prevention skills. The class description included topics such as responses for breathing and cardiac emergencies, soft tissue and skeletal injuries. And a cool bonus would be if I do pass I will be certified for two-years. Now part 2 of my plan is to observe the sports injury screenings at Casa Colina. The information I get from there will be different from the ones I do at regular service learnig hours because I only see athletes who are already injured. At the screenings I will be able to talk active athletes and injury prevention techniques.

Presentation 2 Final Draft

"What is the best way for a physical therapist to help an athlete successfully return to their sport?"

A. Introduction
1. Ask 3 audience members of what they know about Physical Therapy. No longer then 20 sec responses each.
2. Re-iterate why I chose this topic and define all the open-ended terms in my EQ. 1 min at most.
3. Present goal of presentation which is to relate the three sections of content to my second EQ Answer.  20 sec
     "Well-rounded understanding of their sport and typical injuries"

B. Body
1. Typical sport injury areas & causes (physics of how body moves, strains/tears, acute/chronic) 5-6 minutes
2. How the injury heals ( blood circulation, cell regeneration, anatomy, etc.) 5-6 minutes
3. Activity: I changed my activity. I am still spliting the class in half. The difference is how the activity will be played. There will be 13 identify Injury/Healing questions because there will 26 people in the audience. The questions can only be answered by the holder of the notecard containing the term. Basically each side will have all the answers but it is up to the individual to figure out what pertains to what. So for every one question there is two card wielders, one on each side who have to raise the their card first to get the point. 1 point 1 answer. 4- 5 minutes.

C. Conclusion
-Most important source whould be "Sports injuries guidebook" because it has in-depth examination of the most common sports injuries.
-Emphasize it is important for the Physical Therapist to understand the sport because so they know what kind of body movement they can prep their patients for.

D. Materials
- Whiteboard
-Wall Chart of Human Anatomy
- Powerpoint for activity

Independent Study 1

1. Log:  Basically I volunteered at the Tae Kwon Do studio on Tuesdays and Thursday from 4 to 8 pm for the past 4 weeks.( Actually a little more than 30 hours) The exacts dates are 1/18, 1/21, 1/25, 1/27, 2/1, 2/3, 2/8, 2/10.

2. Evidence:



Me observing physical testing.



My Black Belt.

Literal:

(a) I, Muhammad, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) At the Tae Known Do studio I either was observing or helping out with the exercises. Some of the help that I did were holding kicking targets, assisting sit-ups, and moving around gear/mats.

Interpretive:

Although Tae Kwon Do isn't specifically my senior project topic, it did have some validity as my research source. First of all, I observed every class began with warm-ups. They would stretch out basically their entire bodies because it is martial arts and thus they will be moving around a lot. Teaching proper warming up is one of my answers to essential question as it will reduce risk of overall injury. There they targeted their torsos and legs because Tae Kwon Do involves a lot of leg movement. Also another answer to my essential question is learning proper techinque of the sport. In martial arts that is what you do most of the time. You come and pratice every body movement until it gets into muscle memory. Watching the instructors communicate and demonstrate these proper technique was in itself a learning experience for me.

Applied:

Now I've already explained how it is related to my essential question, but I need to be selective of what I learn from here. Not everything is interchangable and can be carried over to physical therapy and general sports. Like I won't bring over how to axe kick to my lesson because I can't really think of a sport that calls for that. However, what I will use is stuff about body conditioning and exercises. For example the proper way of doing squats is bending shoulder with apart down until your legs are bent perpendicularly. 

20 Minute Presentation Rough Draft

"What is the best way for a physical therapist to help an athlete successfully return to their sport?"

A. Introduction
1. Ask 3 audience members of what they know about Physical Therapy. No longer then 20 sec responses each.
2. Re-iterate why I chose this topic and define all the open-ended terms in my EQ. 1 min at most.
3. Present goal of presentation which is to relate the three sections of content to my second EQ Answer.  20 sec
     "Well-rounded understanding of their sport and typical injuries"

B. Body
1. Typical sport injury areas & causes (physics of how body moves, strains/tears, acute/chronic) 5-6 minutes
2. How the injury heals ( blood circulation, cell regeneration, anatomy, etc.) 5-6 minutes
3. Activity: Identify the injury to the sport powerpoint. Divide the class into two sides. 1 point 1 answer. 4- 5 minutes.

C. Conclusion
-Most important source whould be "Sports injuries guidebook" because it has in-depth examination of the most common sports injuries.
-Emphasize it is important for the Physical Therapist to understand the sport because so they know what kind of body movement they can prep their patients for.

D. Materials
- Whiteboard
-Wall Chart of Human Anatomy
- Powerpoint for activity

ESLR Check

  During the course of the first semester I've needed to stretch out my abilities to keep up with all the overwhelming work. Meaning I had to commit more time to doing schoolwork and sacrifice leisure activities. There was rarely a time I only had one thing to worry about in my mind. To deal with the situation I prioritized between short term and long term due dates. Yet no matter the type of work, I applied myself proportionally to the task at hand. Such instances could be shown during model assembly. During the party platform I was dead tired from writing my speeches from the night before, but I still did my best to get a word in on every bill that was discussed.

 The first semester was also very involved with the senior project. I learned a lot about Physical Therapy through the research checks and service learning. The articles and books I used for the research checks gave me a very strong foundation of knowledge in the field of P.T. From those I learned many things about the tools they used and what injuries are most common. Also through the service learning I was able to experience real P.T. to patient interactions that simple text couldn't really substitute. I had already understood what type of work pertains to this profession, but I was surprised how the P.T.s and aids were able to give each and every one of their patients their full enthusiasm.  After handling with so many patients it's a wonder where they get their energy. This probably shows how effectively they spend their time and their understanding of the injury at hand.

     I know I can improve in ESLRs during the second semester because I can put more attention in my senior project rather than spread it between model assembly stuff. Once my senior project takes more of a shape I will be more motivated and eager to make it the best I can.

Service Learning 10 Hour Progress Check

1) Summary of Services:
-I regularly re-stock linen cabinets with towels, pillow cases, wash clothes, and gowns.
-Prepared therapy beds by wiping the leather surfaces and leg supports, raising the bed, opening privacy curtains, diposing of used linen and ice bags, returning lumbar/thoracic/cervical heat pads to hydrocollators.
-Wipe down used excercise machines and equipment
-Put equipment away
-Clean hydrocollator
-Photocopy papers

2) Days I voulunteered:
    12/20/2010 7.78 hours
    12/22/2010 4.30 hours
    1/4/2011     1.17 hours
    Total Hours  13.24999993

3) Being around so many physical therapists and aides I've come to notice that talking is a very important tool they use. They constantly walk patients through each step of the process to instill confidence and make sure the patients themselves understand how their body is healing. With such clear communication, patients can help identify problems and pains that p.t.s would otherwise have a harder time discovering themselves.

Interview 3 Question Pending Approval

Questions
1) What sort of exercises do you do that maintains an athlete's body conditioning?
2) Are there exercises that emulates sports positions/techniques?
3)What are typical sports injuries that you see most often?
4) What are ways that gets athletes back to their sports faster?
5) How to you help patients prevent future injuries?
6) Do you collaborate with other physicians and coaches that oversee your patient?
7) What is ultrasound used most for?
8) What are all the effects of electrical stimulation?
9)  How do you prioritize the times you spend with your patients?
10) How do you know when patients are ready to increase the intensity of work outs?