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Reply 1
yes
Reply 2
SarahMckenzie
At the age of 24 she was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis after suffering with LBP intermittently for 4 years.

Does LBP stand for lower back pain?
indeedy
Reply 3
thanks guys :smile:

sorry, another question:
what does ADL mean?
I need to set up an exercise plan for somebody and need to "increase ADL" ?
SarahMckenzie
thanks guys :smile:

sorry, another question:
what does ADL mean?
I need to set up an exercise plan for somebody and need to "increase ADL" ?


May I suggest taking a walk into the large building full of books which is somewhere on your campus and looking for the physio section?

The questions you are asking are ridiculous even if you are a first year.

Try using books or Google.
Reply 5
jinglepupskye
May I suggest taking a walk into the large building full of books which is somewhere on your campus and looking for the physio section?

The questions you are asking are ridiculous even if you are a first year.

Try using books or Google.
if fairness if you're a first year student and have never been on placement then you may well not know what ADL/LBP means.......OP, try looking up your abbreviations in the physio pocket book or physiotherapy dictionary
JackieS
if fairness if you're a first year student and have never been on placement then you may well not know what ADL/LBP means.......OP, try looking up your abbreviations in the physio pocket book or physiotherapy dictionary


I have to disagree Jackie.

The OP is not existing in a vacumn. They will be having lessons in which these terms are being discussed and in any case they should be using books to find information not expecting to come onto a forum and be spoonfed the answers.

In all honesty I don't think it is very helpful to simply say, here is the answer and the person just trots off. Funnily enough it would have taken less time to google ADL than it did to type out the message.

I'm all for encouraging people and helping where possible, but there is a line where you have to say get off your ass and go and find it out for yourself. In my opinion the OP crossed that line.
Reply 7
I am a first year and we actually haven't even been taught abbreviations and I know that's not really an excuse as I should be looking in books to find them but I wasn't in the library, google was not telling me the correct answer and I have 101 things to do so I thought this would be easier, I'm never on forums asking people for answers, I was just being lazy, so please don't bite my head off for asking for a little help.
Reply 8
Relax - it's good to talk Jingles.

Everyone has a memory of questions asked that on reflection we think are daft or unecessary.

I'm enjoying your blogs. I read through an early one the other day when you were voicing some of the concerns I'm having now as a first year physio. Keep 'em coming :smile:
Reply 9
Cassius C
Relax - it's good to talk Jingles.

Everyone has a memory of questions asked that on reflection we think are daft or unecessary.

I'm enjoying your blogs. I read through an early one the other day when you were voicing some of the concerns I'm having now as a first year physio. Keep 'em coming :smile:


Thank you :smile:
How are you finding your first year so far?
Reply 10
Hi. Enjoying it a lot thanks. Finding some things a challenge and then there are days like today when some things seem to click into place :smile:

I can't quite believe that the first year is over pretty much. Just a few weeks after Easter and we're done. 3 or 4 months after we get back in September an its placements :eek:

How about yourself?
Reply 11
Ahhhh - placements! When you realise how different physio is in reality!

Not to say that what the course taught wasn't very useful, but it's a whole different ball game with real people. Practising manual handling your mates is a lot different from doing it with a person who's had a real stroke or whatever
Cassius C
Hi. Enjoying it a lot thanks. Finding some things a challenge and then there are days like today when some things seem to click into place :smile:

I can't quite believe that the first year is over pretty much. Just a few weeks after Easter and we're done. 3 or 4 months after we get back in September an its placements :eek:

How about yourself?


I'm enjoying it too but there are definitely days where I have no idea and seem completely lost especially in the rehabilitation and anatomy module.
I know, the year has gone fast it really has. Easter in two weeks and then we have the vivas and exam and all the essays due in and it's the holidays, which I cannot wait for.

And I don't even want to think about placement, I am definitely not ready to be treating real patients :s-smilie:
iainmacn
Ahhhh - placements! When you realise how different physio is in reality!

Not to say that what the course taught wasn't very useful, but it's a whole different ball game with real people. Practising manual handling your mates is a lot different from doing it with a person who's had a real stroke or whatever



I am going to be so nervous when it comes to placements in the second year, treating real patients is a scary thought :|
I'm guessing you've just finished placement right? how was it?
Reply 14
Still in the middle of it - second placement (first was outpatients) on a geris ward, doing rehab and a bit of chest physio. I'm absolutely loving it. Sure there's stuff to get used to - knowing when to push patients to exercise and when not to, knowing when to push them on to the next stage in recovery and anything, but it's making all the stuff we practised come to life. You get a CE (Clinical Educator) who supervises you, and they'll keep an eye on you, although step back as you demonstrate that you're competent
Reply 15
We have an observation placement coming up which I'm looking forward to. I will be taking lots of notes!
Reply 16
A further word on placements - although you realise that physio's different int he real world (my first educator told me to stop asking for consent to do every single little thing or we'd never get anything done for instance), it's also helped an awful lot of stuff click into place for me. Although there's a greater worry about a patient falling, you actually see what foot drop looks like. To be fair uni did show us videos and we did get in some guests who had had amputation and stroke etc to demonstrate, but it can never be the same as having patient after patient with foot drop, or COPD, or whatever, especially ones in the early stages of rehab. All the guests we had were inevitably further along the line of recovery, although they were still very useful.

As long as you get a good educator, and so far mine have both been utterly superb - placement rocks!
Reply 17
Well 'proper' placements for us are not until February next year. I hope that I'm prepared by then but my feeling (and you reinforce this) is that this is where the real learning starts. I also get the opportunity to see what I like best. I don't have any firm views on what I want to specialise in and I reckon this gives me a better feel for things.

It feels good learning my trade - I'm really enjoying it!

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