Monday February 12th, 2024
Last week in ISM I enjoyed the gallery walk at FHS and I think it was really helpful in allowing me the opportunity to practice my elevator pitches and summarize my work. I have been to the Final Presentation Nights the last few years, and I noticed that for a lot of the night the students present similar to what we did at the Gallery Walk. As a result I think it was nice to kind of get that practice and feel what it is like. This practice was helpful in all aspects from learning how to explain my research briefly and engage with new people, to understanding that I might need new shoes because my feet started hurting from standing.
Last week I also researched a lot about shoulder injuries in Hockey. I noticed from my interview and research that the most common injuries in Hockey are shoulder injuries. As a result, something I wanted to learn more about before my mentor meetings were shoulder injuries. The main thing I learned was that the ACJ (Acromioclavicular joint) is the most common injury in the shoulders. However, something really interesting I learned was that hockey players have a stronger shooting side which they prefer to use when shooting the puck. This motion causes an abduction and external rotation of the shoulder which can make them more prone to reinjury if they had injured their dominant shoulder.
I play basketball so with ACL injuries, last semester, I knew a lot about the different techniques basketball players prefer and how that can potentially cause future injury. For example, I know that athletes prefer to take a right handed layup over a left handed one, and as a result they are more prone to tearing their left ACL if they land wrong during that action. For that reason, I really enjoyed learning about how hockey players prefer to play, behave, and what they prefer to do on the ice and how that can directly lead to future injury.
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