Various Body Pathologies and Physical Therapy: Pediatrics and Cancer
The assignment that I have decided to post in my E-Portfolio is an assignment that we had to come up with physical therapy interventions and home exercise plan for a pediatric patient who has experienced overall muscle weakness and functional/ambulatory limitations. This Assignment took new concepts of a diagnosis most would not typically attach to physical therapy and required us to learn more about side effects from cancer and its subsequent treatment then how we would apply physical therapy given a patient who is very young. This takes concepts that we learned early on in our curriculum from our pediatrics class and therapeutic exercise class and the new information that we have learned in this class to develop a plan that would help to benefit the patient and get them back to their highest functional abilities and back to a high quality of life.
This assignment taught me to think about the age of the patient and ways that I can make exercises using only the body for resistance to be exciting and fun for the pediatric patient. So many times in our education we tend to get in a routine of have a patient go through the same exercises that it becomes a challenge to think outside the box and to come up with fun activities that may not seem like therapy but has the same benefits of strengthening weak muscles and gives the patient an increase in exercise tolerance to be able to do what they ultimately want to do. It may be hard work and sometimes younger patient may not want to do an exercise, but incorporating play may make the patient more adherent to the program they have set up for them. It was also a challenge to come up with multiple exercises to give just incase the patient gets bored.
Ultimately I choose this assignment because I have children of my own and I think about the things that I play with them and try to think of how those activities are strengthening them and if I ever work with children as a Physical Therapist Assistant, the work I put into this and the plethora of references that I was able to find was very helpful in getting more unique ideas to get pediatric patients to participate fully in physical therapy.
This assignment taught me to think about the age of the patient and ways that I can make exercises using only the body for resistance to be exciting and fun for the pediatric patient. So many times in our education we tend to get in a routine of have a patient go through the same exercises that it becomes a challenge to think outside the box and to come up with fun activities that may not seem like therapy but has the same benefits of strengthening weak muscles and gives the patient an increase in exercise tolerance to be able to do what they ultimately want to do. It may be hard work and sometimes younger patient may not want to do an exercise, but incorporating play may make the patient more adherent to the program they have set up for them. It was also a challenge to come up with multiple exercises to give just incase the patient gets bored.
Ultimately I choose this assignment because I have children of my own and I think about the things that I play with them and try to think of how those activities are strengthening them and if I ever work with children as a Physical Therapist Assistant, the work I put into this and the plethora of references that I was able to find was very helpful in getting more unique ideas to get pediatric patients to participate fully in physical therapy.
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