Great clinicians are not born they are created, they start from somewhere and they’ve made mistakes on their journey to success. During my time volunteering at the Maggie Coffey Memorial Tennis Tournament, I encountered many tennis players with a variety of complaints, such as: Achilles’ tendon pain, ulnar collateral ligament dysfunction, pinched nerve syndrome “Sciatica, etc. One of the challenges that I faced while observing the tennis players was discerning the appropriate clinical questions to ask in order to get to the possible root of the problem While interviewing the patient, I found myself stuttering and asking each of the patients the same general question although they each presented with different signs and symptoms. I feel that the area that came the easiest to me was conducting the basic active/passive range of motion and manual muscle testing on the patient, by conducting these tests, I could ensure that range of motion and muscle strength were not affected by the pain and symptoms reported. …show more content…
Immediately after hearing his symptoms, I knew that there was a strong possibility that a nerve was involved and it was probably being compressed, or pinched by a certain motion or activity that he participated in.
At that moment I felt a burst of confidence because I felt that I took the patients’ subjective report and my knowledge of what I was taught in the classroom and integrated the two to come up with a possible diagnosis. Although I made many mistakes during my time volunteering, I left feeling a sense of excitement because I truly learned something from each of those mistakes and I was able to bring back a new found knowledge to the