Future OT Megan

Back pain is one of the most common injuries in the country so it is extremely important to teach our clients proper body mechanics and posture to help prevent it. Most back pain is caused by poor posture and body mechanics! We also need to make sure to teach proper lifting mechanics and postures as that can help prevent back pain and disorders. It is important to educate our clients on these topics because it can help them maintain independence in their daily life, prevent injury and/or work injuries, and also help relieve some of the back pain they might already be experiencing. With my own clients, I would teach them proper lifting mechanics. I would demonstrate both a proper and incorrect lifting technique. A proper technique consists of bending your knees, widening your base of support on the ground, tighten your abdominal muscles and using your legs to lift the object. Another intervention I would do with my clients is to teach them how to correct their sitting posture. I would ...

In the advertisement for the Women's World Cup 2019, a little girl follows several professional soccer players while they play in the tournament. First, she is shown walking out onto the field with a player from the Netherlands. They walk onto the field from under the tunnel and the little girls sympathetic nervous system is fired on. She is nervous as her breathing is heightened, her palms start sweating, her heart rate starts to rise and her pupils are dilated as she steps onto the field. The sympathetic nervous system releases epinephrine, or adrenaline, to increase her heart rate and move more blood to her muscles to prepare her for "fight-or-flight", or the soccer game. She ends up playing soccer games with many professional athletes as her sympathetic nervous system continues to stay on. She is alert and aware of her surroundings in order to stay in the game. At the end of the advertisement, the little girls steps up for a penalty kick. Here, she takes a deep breath...

In the story, Man from the South, a man makes a bet with a soldier that the soldier's lighter could not light up 10 times in a row. If the lighter didn't light 10 times consecutively, then the man would chop off the soldiers pinky finger. If it does, the man will give him his car. The soldier agrees because he says he does not remember the last time he actually used his litter finger. However, even though you may think you don't use it often, you do. As a soldier one of the main things you do is shooting a gun. Without your little finger it would be difficult to hold the gun steady and also fire the gun. After the lighter has lit up 8 times in a row and the soldiers hand is tied on the table and the man is holding the knife right above the soldiers little finger, the man's wife walks in. She explains that he has nothing to bet because the car is hers. She reaches her hand out to get the key to the car back and she only has 2 fingers. She tells everyone that she had to ...