Blink 182. Ever since I discovered what Pandora was, I have been listening to their station. It's the best! It reminds me of when I was a teenager, and I had to ride in my older brother's car. And we had a Blink tape that we kind of had to hide..but we listened to it, speakers blaring (duh). I also love when my Ipod is on random and one of those old songs comes on. The best!
This weekend I had my continuing education course in New Orleans. Well of course, I was running late (my alarm was set to pm instead of am :0 ) so I had to speed the whole way there..and then when I got there, the garage was full..so I had to park 7 blocks down the street and pay $20. Awesome.
I made it RIGHT on time. The course was given by the International Weightlifting Association and it was about functional exercise..It was pretty vague, but I did get to learn a few things. The instructor runs a rehab center in Ohio (I forgot the name of it, but he treats mostly athletes) and was super laid back and awesome. He also has a master's degree in nutrition, which he didn't really go into, but that plays a huge role in the healing process, so it's definitely a plus. Also, a lot of the patients that we see really need guidance in this area! Anyway, he basically believes that every single patient should begin therapy with doing functional movements and patterns that they will need in every day life, and we should focus less on doing exercises that isolate certain muscles/muscle groups. Or, at the very least, give those as home exercises for patients. I most definitely agreed with most things that he was talking about..I mean..our goal is to get the patient back to doing their everyday activities..so it's only logical. It's very hard to get out of a certain mindset that has been around for years and years. It's also very hard for someone (like me) who has to work with multiple therapists, who all basically have their own way of doing things..So if a certain patient sees a different therapist 3 times per week..they could be doing a totally different program every time they come in. So even if you try to change something up, or do something a little bit different, the next therapist that works with them may change their program back to the old plan or do something else! Sorry, that's a little boring and monotonous, but I'm just gettin stuff off my chest :) For the second part of the day, we basically just exercised. We learned different movement patterns (which we all learned way back when, in school..but it's so nice for the refresher :) and stretches. It's really very hard to get people to exercise these days! It really frustrates me. The elderly people don't really understand, because in their day, they didn't need to exercise..they basically exercised all day long working outside, walking instead of driving everywhere, just basically doing physical work. No video games, TVs, computers to play/watch all day long. I don't know where I was going with that..I was just thinking about it. The younger generation (for the most part) cringe at the word exercise. People say to me all of the time, "You don't NEED to exercise, you are thin!" This annoys me to no end people! EVERYONE needs to exercise! I don't care who you are! Unless you are bending, lifting, running..you know, doing hardcore labor all day long, you need to exercise.
Wow..that was a tangent. Sorry! I'm sitting here halfway watching The Game Of Thrones season finale with hubs..he is so sad that it's the last one. He looovvves it.
Oh! Today, I went to American Eagle (shudder) to get my hubs some Father's Day stuff, and thought to myself, "since when did AE get cute clothes??" I haven't been in there in FOREVER and it reminds me of high school for some reason. I may have bought a few items for myself..and they weren't khaki's for work! Although, I do need to find some more shorts for work soon..
This entry has run far too long..I apologize!
P.S. I played a 3 hour game of monopoly today was an 11 and an 8 year old. I don't think I have to expound on that.
Goodnight.
