On tuesday my supivisor asked me to do an obkective assessment of a patient with shoulder pain. i knew just a breif run down of his subjective history, wich my supivisor informed me of, however otherwise the patient was new to me. I was pretty nervous about this as this was the 1st objective assessment i had done.
i had only 5 min to perform th eassessment and i wasn't clear as to weather my supivisor wanted me to perform all the possible objective assessments for the shoulded including joint integrity tests etc.
The assessment didn't go to well. I felt it was pretty disorganised and " here-there-and-ëverywhere". I think my supivisor aggreed!.
My supivisor advised me that i should be more systematic in my assessmnet and just assess what seems to be the problem; unique to each individual.
Generally my supivisor said that in objective assesment's we generally always perform
AROM
PROM ( physiological and accessories; unique to the individuals problem)
Muscle tests
Joint integrity tests ( if applicable)
I think next time i will have to take more time to anallyse what is being presented to me; and think about what ""tools"" of assessment i have in my knowlage bank; to stress and test the situation presented to me.
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