My Internship at Catalyst Physical Therapy and Wellness
Since I was small I cared about health and being active which is why I'm so interested in a Physical Therapy internship. Being active and being able to move is a very important part of life and everyone should be able to move. Which is why I would want to devote my career into helping people with injuries and making them active and happy.
I interned at Catalyst Physical Therapy and wellness. Physical therapist here treat patients in whatever problems they have. If it's back, shoulder, leg or if their coming in just because of an injury they can be assisted. When patients first come in they get a free injury screen, which is basically an initial evaluation of the patient. They write a SOAP note which stands for Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan. The subjective is how the patient is feeling, the objective are the measurements, the assessment is what the physical therapist think of the patient and the plan is what they have to do to make the patient recover from their pain. I was able to shadow Physical therapist a lot during my month there and I got to see how SOAP notes went down and how the process happened. Another thing that I got the opportunity to do was helping patients with their exercises. I was able to learn a lot of these exercises and help other patients with them and be able to show them how to do them right.
For my project I created a commercial for my physical therapy clinic. Because there's so many different aspects in this clinic like personal training, yoga, acupuncture, physical therapy and massage therapy I was tasked to create a 2 minute project to be able to capture it all. To be able to capture footage I had to make a photo release form and give it to the people who were going to be in the video. After capturing footage I had to edit a lot of the footage because I was only using 5 second clips of each video I recorded.
I learned how to communicate more effectively, and learned great observational skills. Physical therapist have the ability to look at the way people walk and see small details that are off and throughout my time there I was able to see some of those small details. I learned how fun working in a physical therapist clinic can be. They work in a really great environment and it feels like their not working just doing what they love every day and that's where I want to be in the future.
I interned at Catalyst Physical Therapy and wellness. Physical therapist here treat patients in whatever problems they have. If it's back, shoulder, leg or if their coming in just because of an injury they can be assisted. When patients first come in they get a free injury screen, which is basically an initial evaluation of the patient. They write a SOAP note which stands for Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan. The subjective is how the patient is feeling, the objective are the measurements, the assessment is what the physical therapist think of the patient and the plan is what they have to do to make the patient recover from their pain. I was able to shadow Physical therapist a lot during my month there and I got to see how SOAP notes went down and how the process happened. Another thing that I got the opportunity to do was helping patients with their exercises. I was able to learn a lot of these exercises and help other patients with them and be able to show them how to do them right.
For my project I created a commercial for my physical therapy clinic. Because there's so many different aspects in this clinic like personal training, yoga, acupuncture, physical therapy and massage therapy I was tasked to create a 2 minute project to be able to capture it all. To be able to capture footage I had to make a photo release form and give it to the people who were going to be in the video. After capturing footage I had to edit a lot of the footage because I was only using 5 second clips of each video I recorded.
I learned how to communicate more effectively, and learned great observational skills. Physical therapist have the ability to look at the way people walk and see small details that are off and throughout my time there I was able to see some of those small details. I learned how fun working in a physical therapist clinic can be. They work in a really great environment and it feels like their not working just doing what they love every day and that's where I want to be in the future.
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