Culminating Blog Post

I used communication throughout my project by asking the student athletes how they feel and how sore their injury feels. You have to communicate with them in order to know what to do for the day. This is where the critical thinking comes into place. After the student athlete tells you how they feel you have to figure out what is going to be needed most. It could either be stretching, or exercises or massage etc. A lot of the times you have to use your creativity to accomplish what you and the athlete have to do. For example, if the athlete needs to work on their quad muscles you look for the items or materials they need such as a shuttle. Lastly, collaboration comes into the picture when it is time to start the work outs of the day. You have to put your part of the effort to help the student athlete. I used all these characteristics on my paper as well. I had to use my critical thinking and creativity to make my paper interesting and I had to communicate my thoughts with the reader.

I gained personal experience throughout my project by shadowing my mentor. I went an saw all the steps he had to follow in order to get where he wanted to be with the athlete. Also I helped him with a couple of athletes by stretching them out and setting up a heating towel or materials. It helped me feel good In a personal level. This project helped me socially because this plays a huge part in the profession. You have to be talkative and keep the athlete interested in order for the time to go by fast and make them feel comfortable. It helped me understand how to socialize with the patients the right way and not in an awkward way. Finally, it helped me intellectually because I learned a couple of injuries and how they happened. Surprisingly I understood the reasons and it all made sense in a strange way. It opened my mind to how amazing the human body works.

There were a couple of challenges that I encountered. One was how to have the student athletes or patients not feel awkward and doubtful around me. This was especially hard for me since I was just a high school student with no medical degree. However, watching my mentor work with them showed me how exactly to make them feel comfortable around me. He seemed very calm and confident and gave them a smile here and there. That is what I did and by the end of the day they spoke to me about their studies and their day. The second and last challenge was understanding why injuries happen and how they get fixed. It took me a while to wrap my head around what my mentor explained to me but it made sense after a while. In the end, I came to the conclusion that I want to do this as my career.    

Day 6

Again I reviewed the injury for another hour and I tried to memorize so I don't have to look at my paper much during my presentation. That went pretty well because I went through most of it without looking at the paper. Another hour was spent on doing the stretches and exercises on the assistant.
Total hours: 25 hours

Day 5

I reviewed for one hour the patellar tendonitis injury. I needed to remember what causes it and I needed to review the four stages. Then after, I reviewed for another hour how to address the problem and I did the exercises on my assistant.
Total Hours: 22 hours

Day 4

This day, my mentor and I did pretty much the same thing. He worked with the student athletes and explained their injuries to me. I stretched out some of them so they can go on the bike or start their everyday exercises. Finally, towards the end we reviewed the one specific injury I was going to concentrate on for my physical project. I was struggling at first then it al came to me. Then when I got home I reviewed more for an hour. My mentor left the last 4 hours for me to review at home and understand the injury more. I yet to do those hours.
Total Time: 21 hours

Day 3

Today was like any other day with my mentor. I went in and he was doing ultrasound therapy to an athelete. While he was doing that, he made me do a PNF stretch on a soccer player so she can go ahead and do her exercises. I stretched her out 5 times for 15 seconds on each leg. As i finished that he explained to me what her issue was. It turns out that she has pateller tendonitis. He did deep tissue massage on the damaged tendon and he was informing me how this would help her rehabilitate. Then we went into his office and he made me read a passage on a website on pateller tendonitis and how it is healed. After he told me to explain to him what i read and understood. The reason why he made me do this is because i will be demonstrating how to help heal this particular injury in my physical project. After that he asked me what else i was interested in and i said the back. After he showed me stretches for the back i went home. He told me to go home and study the knee and this particular injury. Also he told me to go and pracitce the techniques on my test dummy (my girlfriend) so it stays fresh in my mind. He also wants me to try these techniques on our last meeting on saturday.

Total hours: 15 hours.

Conflict With The Mind

Wingston Smith's biggest conflict so far might have to be his own mind. Winston seems to be struggling to contorl his emotions and thoughts. For example, when he enters the room where they held the 2 minutes of hate he saw the girl with the "freckled face", he began dissing her because she was beautiful. Then later he looked at her again during the chaos and kept thinkingthat he wanted to have sex with her. So basically he couldn't decide if she was a beauty or evil. Also, when he saw O'Brien he began to admire his looks and how they didn't match up to the person he is acting like. Wingston said, "But he had an appearance of being a person that you could talk to, if somehow  you could cheat the telescreen and get him alone." Finally, during the two minutes of hate Wingston couldnt decide if he should be on Bog Brother's side or against. He first started with dissing him while "shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his chair." Then he quickly sided with Goldstein,. For example, "At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration." So it seems that Wingston can't keep his mind on one side, therefore his main conflict is his own mind.    

Day 2

Today in sports medicine and physical therapy we did the same thing as yesterday for 3 hours straight. We started in his office at 10 and finished at 2. Throughout this time he was examining his patients and helping them stretch. He used shock therapy, ultra sound, and heat to relief some of his patients stress or pain. After the process he told me to stretch the rest of his patients so i could get the hang of it. he said i did goodand the patients said they felt the stretch. The stretch i did is called a PNF stretch. That jus reliefs stress and helps them be more loose. A little before 3, he got his kit redy for the upcoming baseball game. He showed me everything he had and why he needed those things. After, we went to a baseball game he had to attend since he is the one that has to be available for injuries. Throughout the game he spoke to me on how the whole process in the field works. Then around the 5th inning a player from the opposing team twisted his ankle and he checked up on him. When he came back he explained to me what he did out there and the questions he asked the player. Then the game finished at 4 and my day was over. He just told me to go home and study the knee anatomy.
Total time: 12 hours.   

Day 1

Today i met with my mentor for the first time. Yea its a little late but i had no time due to my extra curricular activities and other responsiblities. My mentor is the sports medicine trainer and physical therapist at Skyline College. We started off by introducing each other and i gave him a background of the project. After we got that out of the way he went to attend his patients, the student athletes of Skyline. He first started with my girlfirend by stretching her out. While he was doing so, he was explaining to me what her problem was. I turns out she has Pateller Tendonitis, this means that her knee cap has too much friction with the otherbones in the knee which tends to cause a lot of pain. Throughout the whole day he was going around attending other students and explaining their problem. After the day ended, we came to an agreement that since i have to do a physical project on this, i was going to concentrate mainly on the knee. He told me to go home and study the knee bones and joints for an hour. This day in general i learned so much about the body and it was just my first day.        

Total time: 6 hours.

Stranger Than Fiction

I personally don't feel like thers is much difference between a narrator and an author. All the movie showed me was a author reading their story. Really, the only difference is the fat that you can feel and hear the authors tone more when he/she narrates the story. For example, when she narrated the part before the main character gets hit by the buus, the tone in her voice made it obvious that something drastic was going to happen. The way i determined on what should be on my research paper is looking at what i belived were the important facts. Also by putting down similar information the sources had. For example, if i read where physical therapy originated and i saw it in more than two sources i would put that down. My paper doesn't just try to get one persons attetion but everyone elses. I am just trying to expose that there is a great job that pays well and is worth studing. I believe it will have a positive impact to those who want to pursue this profession because there are high hopes for this job on the near future.     

Research Stress Level

Democrats and Republicans positions in the "fiscal cliff" differ because they have completely differnt views on how to fix it. Democrats belive that the government should raise taxes on the rich. However, the republicans think different. They want the Government to limit deductions so they can raise federal revenue. Though, some republicans agree with president Obama and his democratic party. They believe that raiseing taxes on the rich will fix the "fiscal cliff."

The research strategies on Google helped greatly. I mostly used the reading level which i put to basic and also by date. By doing this, it gave me websites that were posted about a week and so gave me a perspective on what is most recently happening rather than reading what happened a while before which might have changed. Also, by putting it to basic reading level, it was easier for me to understand all the political talk. What didint help me was the dictionary strategy. I tried to look up the defintion of the fiscal cliff and gave me nothing. All these strategies were new to me and they helped me in a very positive way. I will apply these strategies to my research by doing what they latest posts are and reading level to basic so things could be easier and faster to understand.   
 

Trust and Communication is Key.

I believe that the most important aspects when dealing with love are trust and communication. The reason i believe that trust is an important aspects when dealing with love is because when you dont trust anyone you can't have any type of relationship with them. It could either be an intimate relationship, friendly relationship, or family relationship. Also, when you don't communicate with others, relationships will die. They will die because the person might feel like you don't trust them or they arn't worthy enough to help you or listen to you. The most forgotten and disregarded aspects have to be trust and communication as well. The reason i say that is because many people belive that they don't have to communicate with others to have some sort of strong bond. Others think that trust isn't inportant and that they could take adantage of it. This will hurt a relationship greatly. It can damage the current ones and the future ones because then everyone knows you can't be trusted.    

Social

My "type" is social. This means that i like to be around people and that i enjoy helping others. It also means that i would contribute to society in some way. It also means that i have strong interpersonal and communication skills and i tend to be empathetic, patient, and understanding. In some ways this is true and some ways it is not. For example, when it comes to being understanding and empathetic however i am not really patient when it comes to some sort of things. Then as i looked down at the majors that the website advised the two majors i wanted to study were in there which are physical therapy and psychology. This website really made me realize what i want to pursue once i get out of high school.    

My Heroes

Growing up, I've always looked up to many people, many of them althletes. However, the only people i consider my heroes are my father and my mother. The reason they are my heroes is because of everything they have done so much for my family and me. From the beginning, my father was the provider for those in my household. He would take any job that was available just so we could have a bite to eat everyday. You could tell that it wasnt easy for him because when he would come home from work he would be dirty and worn down. Yet, he still woke up everymorning to go on and do the same thing all over again, that is until he got injured in a soccer game about 4 years ago. Ever since that day he could not go back to work because his injury is still there. Even though his injury hurts him greatly at times, he still finds a way to earn money. From helping a friend with something to catering for quinceneras and weddings. He wasnt the only one that had to change his ways due to his injury. My mother was a stay at home mom but she had to change that and get two jobs just so we could make it through the day. My mother worked from 6 in the morning to about 10 at night. Sometimes i didn't get to see her for three consecutive days because she worked so much. Then she got a promotion in her first job and so she quit her second one. These past four years have been extrmely diffucult for them, yet they still haven't given up. I can easily tell you what the characteristics my hero would need to have. My hero would be determined, hard working, must have endurance, and they never quit no matter what obstacles or challanges a put before them. There is no doubt that my parents have these characteristics.

Sports Mentality

If you click both of the two links below, they will lead you to a clue that will give you an idea to what i would like to study in college. These links are on Psychology and Sports Psychology and they both give information on articles and current events that have to do with Psychology. The reason i would like to pursue this career is because when i came back from my knee injury i recovered physically however i did not recover mentally. I kept thinking that my soccer skills were no longer great and i was very depressed because of it. I would like to help others that are going through this problem in the future so they keep playing the sport they love. 

Sports Psychology

Psychology

The links below here are links to blogs that have to do with Physical Therapy. The reason i am following these blogs is because this is something eslse i would like to do. The reason i would like to do this in the future is similar to the reason as the paragraph above. I have had many injuries throughout my life its unbelieveable. I would like to help others in the future with injuries so they can go back to doing what they love to do.

Sports Medicine

Sports Performance

Moral Rights or Legal Rights?

One of the events that is most talked about at the moment is the whole religous conflict between the United States and the middle east. Recently, the New York Times has written an article speaking upon multiple protests, most of them violent,  that have broken out in the middle east because of a video that was released. The article states that in that video, the prophet of the Muslims Muhammad was  made fun of or mocked. The film maker did not break the law in any way, however, in my opinion he did abuse the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The reason i believe that he abused the First Amendment is because this amendment technically gives anyone the right to believe in and say anything they desire. However, that doesn't mean you have the right to diss a believe. Yes, i understand that making fun of a believe is not illegal but it isn't morally correct. People should respect and take into consideration that religion is a sensitive topic. Im sure that everyone knows when they have crossed a line, i know i do. I know that if i wanted to spread my believes i had the right to. I can talk to others about my believe and where it has gotten me. However, burning a sacred book of a religion that goes against mine is definately crossing the line. just like a religous scholar said, "We want countries to understand that thay need to take into consideration the people and not just the governments."

Do We Need a Hero?

Most of the time when someone thinks of a hero they imagine a man or a woman wearing colorful tights and a cape with a huge logo that have super strength or super speed or anything of that sort. If these heroes were real, the hero in our society would have the power to create money, food, and peace. This hero would go to the poorest places and give people money so they can pay off their house or would give schools more money to provide more oppurtunities. This hero would also have the ability to make food for those who starve. He/she would be able to create peace so no violence could take place. However, that ins't the reality, though these things are possible to accomplish. If us, the people, stand up and speak out so we can be heard anything is possible. Like Tuapc Amur Shakur once said "It's time for us as people to start making some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other. You see, the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we have to do, to survive." This is exactly what we have to do. If we don't make changes then who will?       
   

Education

Education in America is expremely valuable i believe for many reasons. One reason is that many jobs now require someone to have a some kind of college degree. A couple of years back, not many jobs asked for college degress. Now, even McDonalds is asking for people to have a one, that is crazy. The only thing is that they do not require someone to have a degree of some sort, however, if two people applied at some job that asked (not require) for a degree and one person has it an the other does not, who do you think will get chosen for the position? Also, when you have a degree, you just don't get educated, you also get disciplined and helps you get ready for the "real world." For example, when you graduate you will be ready to go on and pursue the career you have been dreaming of. You obviuosly have to start off slow and in the beginning you might not have your own business. In differnce, you might have to start off by working for someone who has experience in the position you would like to be in sometime in the future. For example, if you want to own your own physical therapy clinic one day, you have to get a job or internship at another physical therapy clinic so you can learn more about the system. So when you apply for your internship or job, the person in charge will see that you have a degree, they will know that you are educated for that position and sees you as responsible and disciplined. I want to be in this position one day. I would love to get a degree in something that has to do with sports like, sports medicine, sports psychology, sports journalism or physical therapy. Without a degree, i can not be a writer or doctor or some sort. This is why education is very valuable to me. Another reason why education is important is because i would love to help take care of my parents and siblings.    

welcome

Hey guys its Cesar Gomez! Welcome to my blog spot thingy. I am currently a senior at South City High and I am excited about senior year but what i am most excited for is senior ball and getting letters back from the colleges i will be applying to. If i were stranded in an island the three items i would bring is a soccer ball, boat, and a spear.