Today was a very busy day. One of the therapists called in sick, so all of his patients went to to others. This caused major problems trying to find people places for them to go and trying to figure out which patient was whom in order to check them off as here. The good side is that it made the morning go by very fast though that wasn't the other thing that did.
Observing really makes the time go by. Today I did two. The first one was a woman with hip problems, and I got to work with one my favorite therapists at the clinic. She placed a heating pad over the area first to relax the muscles a bit. Then came the Biofreeze. Biofreeze is a cool gel that helps with massaging an area. The therapist placed it on the patient and started rubbing it with a golf club. Why a golf club you say? It helps smooth out the muscle when it is tense. You just glide it over the area. If there are parts where it acts like a speed bump, that is where the muscle is most tense. You just keep gliding over it for awhile and the muscle will smooth out.
The most fun today was working with the soon-to-be fire fighters. They came to the clinic today for post offers. Pretty much what that is is a person may be hired for a laborious occupation, so they come to the clinic to be examined to see if they are physically fit for the job. Today it happen to be fire fighters. It first started out with them getting a physical examination checking their reflexes, strength, etc. Then came the fun part: the obstacle course. They had to walk up and down the stairs four times stepping on each step with a 50 foot hose. The next part was swinging an axe 20 times. Then they had to pull a ladder up and down and take a ladder off and on a couple of pegs. Next was carrying 60 pounds 60 yards then carrying a dummy that weighed 180 pounds. The last part was carrying a hose as far as it will go and turning it on. The coolest part after that was the chief let me spray the hose! It was definitely a moment I would never forget.
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