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