My Philosophy
I have learned over the years that we are on this planet to make a positive impact in some way. The way we make that positive impact is very specific to each individual, and their inherent God given talents and skills. From my experience as an athletic trainer, I have learned that I have the skill to help people return to full function after an injury and also to prevent injuries. Therefore, I never shy away from an opportunity to help someone that is suffering with an injury. From an injury prevention aspect, I have learned that we must understand what tasks or sports are placing the individual at risk for an injury before we can educate on injury prevention techniques (Legge, 2013). I have been a licensed athletic trainer in Illinois for almost 15 years, and I have come to the conclusion that inner knowledge of at risk work tasks or sports is essential for effective mitigation techniques.
For the last 5 and ½ years, I have worked exclusively in the occupational setting where prevention of injuries is expected by all practitioners because of the incredibly high costs associated with worker musculo-skeletal injuries (Inyang, Al-Hussein, El-Rich & Al-Jibouri, 2012). As a result, I have made it the highest priority to perform job demands analysis and ergonomic consultation on many jobs before offering any recommendations or injury mitigation techniques (Legge, 2013). Once you have the inner knowledge, the emphasis then becomes how do I share this knowledge? I have found that it is important to communicate this knowledge in several different ways. First direct one on one communication with the worker is essential because this gives you the chance to ask the worker questions as a method to ensure worker understanding. The second technique is presentations directed to management of various companies where these workers are employed.
Communication to the management allows for concrete long-term changes in the work day to occur which may result in in reduction of injuries. In addition, this may result in the management of the company understanding which specific tasks would be considered the highest physical demand level or the highest risk (Inyang et al., 2012). In the end my goal is simply to help as many people as possible either through injury care or injury prevention.
References:
Inyang, N., Al-Hussein, M., El-Rich, M., & Al-Jibouri, S. (2012). Ergonomic analysis and the need for Its Integration
for planning and assessing construction tasks. Journal Of Construction Engineering & Management, 138(12),
1370-137doi:10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000556
Legge, J. (2013). The evolving role of physiotherapists in pre-employment screening for workplace injury prevention:
are functional capacity evaluations the answer Physical Therapy Reviews, 18(5), 350-
357.doi:10.1179/1743288X13Y.0000000101
I have learned over the years that we are on this planet to make a positive impact in some way. The way we make that positive impact is very specific to each individual, and their inherent God given talents and skills. From my experience as an athletic trainer, I have learned that I have the skill to help people return to full function after an injury and also to prevent injuries. Therefore, I never shy away from an opportunity to help someone that is suffering with an injury. From an injury prevention aspect, I have learned that we must understand what tasks or sports are placing the individual at risk for an injury before we can educate on injury prevention techniques (Legge, 2013). I have been a licensed athletic trainer in Illinois for almost 15 years, and I have come to the conclusion that inner knowledge of at risk work tasks or sports is essential for effective mitigation techniques.
For the last 5 and ½ years, I have worked exclusively in the occupational setting where prevention of injuries is expected by all practitioners because of the incredibly high costs associated with worker musculo-skeletal injuries (Inyang, Al-Hussein, El-Rich & Al-Jibouri, 2012). As a result, I have made it the highest priority to perform job demands analysis and ergonomic consultation on many jobs before offering any recommendations or injury mitigation techniques (Legge, 2013). Once you have the inner knowledge, the emphasis then becomes how do I share this knowledge? I have found that it is important to communicate this knowledge in several different ways. First direct one on one communication with the worker is essential because this gives you the chance to ask the worker questions as a method to ensure worker understanding. The second technique is presentations directed to management of various companies where these workers are employed.
Communication to the management allows for concrete long-term changes in the work day to occur which may result in in reduction of injuries. In addition, this may result in the management of the company understanding which specific tasks would be considered the highest physical demand level or the highest risk (Inyang et al., 2012). In the end my goal is simply to help as many people as possible either through injury care or injury prevention.
References:
Inyang, N., Al-Hussein, M., El-Rich, M., & Al-Jibouri, S. (2012). Ergonomic analysis and the need for Its Integration
for planning and assessing construction tasks. Journal Of Construction Engineering & Management, 138(12),
1370-137doi:10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000556
Legge, J. (2013). The evolving role of physiotherapists in pre-employment screening for workplace injury prevention:
are functional capacity evaluations the answer Physical Therapy Reviews, 18(5), 350-
357.doi:10.1179/1743288X13Y.0000000101