6.3.13

6.3.13

Legacy.

I want to leave behind a legacy for next years iQuest students.
I had such a fun experience in iQuest and I definitely do not regret taking the class.

I learned things that I wouldn't have learned unless I had taken iQuest.
iQuest has really helped open my eyes to all of the possible paths and careers that relate to the broad subject of the medical field.

Ever since I chose to go into Sports Medicine, I have learned and gained so much knowledge than the basic course that I can now keep up with Bonnie on procedures and treatments.
Bonnie was such a great mentor in that she really gave hands on demonstrations of how things were done.

I even got to learn things beyond sports medicine such as chiropractic massage therapy and various psychological fields from instructors and guest visitors that came into the class to give lectures.

I loved iQuest and hope to come back next year to show my presentation and entice more students to join/stay with iQuest.

Thank you to Mrs. Sekera, Bonnie, class mates, and my parents for supporting me!

Andrew

04.23.13

Hello everyone,

Yesterday, I got to experience first hand what the "Game Ready" machine actually does.
For the past couple of months that I have been treating patients with the machine, I never fully understood what it did for the patient besides making them feel some pain, relieve the pain, then numb the area of inflammation.

The machine comes with many different sleeves for different parts of the body, some of these sleeves include: ankle, thigh, lower back, shoulder, and elbow to name a few.
I chose to test out the elbow sleeve.

The machine has a compartment that you fill with 1 part water to 3 parts ice. There is hose that connects to the machine and the sleeve.
You activate the machine and start the "Game Ready" procedure by setting the sensitivity, temperature, and time.

Once you press "Start" you immediately feel a rush of coldness creep up your arm as the sleeve fills with the injected "ice/water mixture". The average procedure lasts up to 15 minutes, 7 and a half minutes in is where it is at it's peak coldness.

My arm at first felt good, it felt as if I had waded into a cold lake.
Couple of minutes in, I could feel a stinging pain in my arm.
At the peak temperature the feeling of needles and numbness interchanged.
Towards the end of the treatment, the cool numbness feeling felt good and slightly painful at the same time.

After experiencing first hand, the actual treatment that I have been giving, it was interesting to see how it felt.

Thanks for reading!

Hope to update you on some "Ultrasound" next week!

Andrew

02.26.13

Things I like and dislike about myself:

One thing I like about myself is that I have an awesome imagination. I like to imagine something and make it happen. I always try to make my parents proud by thinking up a new joke for them. They say that I have a colorful imagination.

One thing I dislike about myself is that I am a little lazy, I always wanted a job so I could make my own money and buy the things that I want. It took me a while to find a job, but i finally did and I am so proud of myself. Although I'm lazy, I can get caught up very quickly with the proper help.

I would like to improve on things that i dislike about myself and try to do the best I can at everything I do.

Thanks for reading,

Andrew

2.3.13

First semester of iQuest was quite interesting.
I feel like I learned a lot from just one semester.
Although I was on the field and experimenting with the machinery in the class room,
I feel as though I haven't fulfilled my wants from the iQuest class.
I think another semester of awesome iQuest experience will help me fulfill my
desires from this class.
I would like to go to some lacrosse games and observe the differences between
football and lacrosse injuries.
Usually football consists of many injuries to the torso and lower abdomen and back, while
lacrosse consists of many arm and leg injuries.

It will be interesting to watch the sport that I once played before.

Thanks for reading,
Andrew

1.21.13

Well first off, Happy New Year!

Haven't blogged in quite awhile, sorry about that!
For this post, I wanted to talk about the "book assignment" that was given to us a couple of months ago.
I finished my book a while back, and feel that I have extracted useful knowledge and interesting facts.
I wanted to start off by saying that this assignment itself, was a bit alienating to the iQuest experience.
What I mean by that is, I felt that the assignment didn't really assist in the growing/building up of my experience in the medical field; albeit the book had great facts and information.
The book threw many random facts at the reader about "how many injuries happen on average per year" and other information that you think you could find in the Guinness Book of World Records or a simple Google search.
Sarah Lennard-Brown really knows how to fill up every page, and not leave a single empty spot. She has filled the book with illustrations, pictures, diagrams, charts, small facts, as well as the big writing with no space to spare! I felt fulfilled on random Sports Medicine related facts upon completing the book; however, was left unsatisfied to an extent on how broad the book was on sports related injuries.
In conclusion, Sarah Lennard-Brown did a great job of making every page worth its while, but didn't really touch base enough to really attract more readers, or have readers come back for a second book if she had written a "Sports Injuries 2".

Thank you for reading,
Andrew