FINAL ENTRY

So Sorry Jodie and Jo!,

I really did enjoy my Clinical education unit/prac placement this year. I felt like i was for the first time exposed to what physiotherapy is in a practicle sence. Clincial education opened my eyes to see that sometimes what you learn in theory/uni is sometimes not usefull or apllicable to do in a practicle situation.

I felt i was exposed
- a whole range of treatment options for conditions, such as lateral epicondyladure, and post operation conditions.
- i also noted that sometimes the treatment not only changes in doses as the person improves but also that the treatment can change in modalities as the person progresses in their recovery.
- gym sessions
- hydrotherapy sessions
- new machines such as traction devices, and different types of ultrasound/interferential therapy machies.
- i learnt to use my bodyweight to my advantage when treating patients, which is sometimes very important as a girl.
- i also learnt more about objective examination and that basically anything you dont measure you wont know if it improves.

However i was a bit dissapointed with the lack of paticipation and involvment that i
in this particular private practice 60-80% of the patiets were spinal patients and i was a bit annoyed that i didn't get to see more perpipheral problems. The reason for this being that i havent as yet studied the spine, but have studied the perpiphery.