Today was a rather slow day at first. We didn’t have many patients, although most of the patients I saw were patients I have seen before. With many of them we used a lot of the tools we keep on the back wall. We have ankles weights hanging on the wall in the order of navy, white, gold, green, and black which are 1 lb, 2 lbs, 3 lbs, 4 lbs, and 5 lbs respectively. We also keep regular weights up there: lightest (1 lb) on the top to heaviest (5 lbs) on the bottom. We also keep the therabands here. We have some precut ones in the basket and uncut band on the wall. The bands also increase why tensile strength and we can cut whatever type of band and however much we need for any given patient so that they can go home and perform their exercises. In this area we also keep a multiple of other things like a goniometer which we use to measure the degrees of mobility a patient has in certain directions. In this way we can track a patient’s progress in increasing mobility. We also store a myofascial releaser in this area that can help when doing deep tissue massages. Sometimes it is difficult to get to certain muscles or the go over them we a need amount a pressure so you can use a myofascial releaser to help. We also keep a strength testing tool on the wall for dynamometeric strengths tests. This is when we test a patient’s strength (in pounds) while they perform abduction, flexion, internal rotation, and external rotation.
