Today, I watched various physical therapists perform treatment on people with back, shoulder, glute, ankle, and back injuries. One of the key important phrases that is widely used in the BTPT Cary facility is “Motion is Lotion”. This was a really cool funny phrase that reminds patients that they need to have a lot of movement and physical activity incorporated into their daily lifestyle in order to produce more lubrication for their joints, which in turn aids in faster recovery and healing for certain injuries. They also stress to their patients the importance of R&R (rest and recovery) in the healing process, however. Our bodies need time to recuperate before jumping back into the active lifestyle that we may have had before our injury. One therapist saw his patient looking down at her phone for a long period of time while she was waiting to be treated, and he made it clear that doing such actions has a negative impact on the body and causes muscles in the back and spine to tighten. Today I mainly helped out with creating an ice pack as soon as I walked in the door, throwing away and retrieving supplies, and collecting a patients’ waiver for dry needling. I was also able to observe an internal pelvic floor release done by a physical therapist that specializes in pelvic health. This was really interesting and different from anything else I had observed over the past week. It was very interesting to me because as a dancer (outside of school) I learn a lot about the pelvic floor muscles and she was able to teach me a lot about this particular topic that isn’t very commonly discussed. When observing a dry needling session of the back, Kenny noted that repetition of symptoms is something that is looked for when needling. If the same symptoms appear when dry needling as in the patients’ daily life, that means that the PT found the correct spot. It was a very different experience to not only observe him dry needle the back muscles, but also the neck muscles both in the posterior and anterior. The anterior neck muscles were right next to the throat, so I was on edge watching this particular session of dry needling in fear that something might go wrong, but of course everything went smoothly because he is very experienced.