Guest Speaker

Today in class, I had the opportunity to hear from a guest speaker about rehabilitation. Typically, long lectures can be a drag, but this was the opposite. After a long day, I was exhausted, yet he kept me engaged the entire time. One quote that he mentioned at the beginning really stuck out to me ; "tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand". Although I had never thought about it, this is true. He used this quote throughout the presentation, as he brought students up as examples, and appeared to be invested in specific sports of specific student, and continues to relate his message to each sport/activity.

From this presentation, I learned many things. My greatest takeaway was every sport includes actions in all planes, so when stretching, it is important to stretch in all planes. It was excited to apply my knowledge from Sports Med about the 3 planes in order to understand what he meant by this. This will be useful in my life when stretching for cheer, or other physical activity such as running. Another thing that really stuck out to me was how much you could tell about someone or their injury simply by watching them walk.

This was by far the most excited guest speaker I have had the opportunity to listen to, and I will take much of the information he gave me into my daily life.

10/27