Physical Therapy Volunteer 5/17/12

• Patient discretion
• Down time
• Cleaning tables, equipment, and machines
• Laundry
• Familiarize myself with Exercise terminology 
• REF = Reformer
• RIP = Run in Place
• TUB - Thumb up back
• Private clinic needs to emphasize productivity
• my role is not to get in the way of productivity, 
• if questions but PTs are busy, write down notes
• ? - Patient subjectivity 
• asking how a patient feels vs what the PT believes a patient is at
• motivating patients who feel they don't need to do their exercises anymore
• letting a patient know their limitations,
• test 
• ignore patient's subjective opinion 
• ? - Incline setting - how to choose incline setting for patients
• side ways squat jump form
• posture - spine and shins are parallel 
• sound - soft vs hard landing indicates eccentric muscular control (having the strength to lower yourself slowly
• simultaneous landing vs tap tap landing - indicates pressure of landing being shared by both feet
• MCL valgus injury
• adductors
• hamstrings
• quadriceps
• *treat multiple components of the injury
• ? - Q angle - quadriceps angle?
• ? - Massage techniques 
• purpose and techniques
• ? Popping noise in knee - ?
• ? Taichi research - effect on physical therapy and fitness
• New Eval
• athletes - pain tolerance different from other patients
• how running causes back pain (lack of foot plantar flexion)
• head aches - posture and back pain
• standing march - quiver in lumbar spine, weakness
• Ibuprofen and drug use - NSAIDs and Naproxen
• liability concern, a lot of people misuse drugs
• foam rolling alternatives for patients with shoulder pain
• use a rolling pin to manually roll
• Adhesive capsulitis - frozen shoulder 
• SITS - supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres mminor, subscapularis 
• teres major
• rhomboid major and minor
• trapezius mid
• latissimus dorsi
• ? - Knee valgus - Christopher Powers