Narrative Essay On Kyla's Recovery

In Jacqueline’s extreme case, she was with five friends driving home one night when a drunk driver swerved into their lane and hit them head on. Two of her friends died in the accident while she was left in the burning car. Jacqueline suffered from third degree burns on 60% of her body, but the inspiring part is yet to come. Jacqueline is not only alive and striving, but she is also learning to put her life back together and continue with life as normally as possible. But exactly how possible is that when you are left with noticeable deficiencies? Jacqueline was only 20 years old when the accident happened. She had recently decided to take a break from college to move to America from Venezuela to study English. With her injuries, she was not able to continue her college education or help her dad run his air conditioning factory. But even with this, Jacqueline still hopes to get married and have kids someday. She is aware that this may not be possible, but she is living life day-by-day hoping for a miracle.

My first experience observing a physical therapist, commenced in the summer of 2014. At the time, I was given the opportunity to observe a physical therapist named Jennifer Moreland. Throughout my time observing her, I began to recognize she was not just a physical therapist with her patients. Many times, she took on the role of a consoler, cheerleader, friend and supporter for her patients. Reflecting back on this, I am able to see that the primary reason she has succeeded as a physical therapist; is due to her amiable, encouraging and empathetic nature. These character traits have allowed her to do more than heal patients' musculoskeletal problems. She has also been able to heal hearts, souls and minds by cheering, supporting, listening

Life can change in a split second when an unanticipated injury or disease hinders someone’s normal daily life. Modern medicine, physicians and families can only do so much but physical therapy can help recoup the life many of us take for granted. It often isn’t until we lose something that we as humans realize what we had such as the value of our body’s ability to take us through each day. A physical therapist is the person who stays with a patient for the duration of the rehabilitation process. A physical therapist leads the patient through the process of regaining physical strength and helps the patient regain control of their future. Much like many careers that involve interaction with individuals, physical therapy reaches beyond

Lexi was in a tragic boating accident that, unfortunately, resulted in the loss of her lower left leg. Countless amputees have given up on trying to become stronger and try to have a normal life again, but, however, Lexi decided she was not going to be one of them. It was extremely hard for her in the beginning because walking with prosthetics is a lot harder than walking regularly. Lexi had to work twice as hard to be able to get used to the prosthetics and try to live on with it to the best of her abilities. She kept working every day, going through physical therapy and other methods to be able to walk better with prosthetics. Although her life would never be the same again and would never be normal, Lexi made it her goal to try and get it to be as close to normal as possible. She was a very athletic girl before the accident and wants to go back to the sports she loves by training extra hard to make it to the Paralympics. Lexi also wants to become a physical therapist to help other amputees with their struggles. She looks at her leg with pride, knowing that she is living her life to the fullest and not letting the accident bring her spirit down. She will keep putting in a lot of effort, thanks to modern science that has made and improved prosthetics that will forever help her. Lexi is not going to let this get in her way of achieving her dream, which proves her grit and

Intervention 1: Therapist will process underlying feelings about Jennie’s disability and how it affects family.

Each month I hold a completely free dance camp for children with disabilities to help with their physical development, social awareness, emotional maturity, and cognitive ability. My ultimate goal is to one day operate my very own physical therapy practice to help children with challenges that they face in their everyday lives. This non-profit organization that I developed has ultimately prepared me for the everyday duties of a physical therapist assistant. When I was thirteen years old, I severely broke my elbow which doctors thought they were going to have to amputate my arm.

Joni Eareckson Tada once said, “Sometimes God permits what he hates to accomplish what he loves” (Goodreads). Since she was born on October 15th, 1949, Joni had always been an athletic, horse-loving young lady (“Sweet Surrender” 39). That changed one hot summer day in 1967 when seventeen-year-old Joni went to the Chesapeake Bay with her sister and her boyfriend. While swimming, she dove into the water not knowing that it was shallow. As a result of the shallow water, Joni hit her head on a rock and broke her neck. Luckily, her sister found her and got her safely to a hospital. Due to the break in her neck, Joni has had to deal with the life-threatening condition of quadriplegia, or paralysis from the shoulders down without the use of her

In my last year’s placement I had the privilege of Interning at the Veteran’s Affairs in the Spinal Cord Injury clinic. In the SCI clinic I worked closely with Veterans who had experienced spinal cord injury, which resulted in permanent paralyses such as paraplegia or quadriplegia. Ms. Cynthia Jackson was one of my clients that had an enormous impact on me. Ms. Jackson is 55 year old African American. Ms. Jackson served in the United Air force in the late 1970’s post-Vietnam War and was based in Germany. While serving in Air force, Ms. Jackson severely injured her back in tanker truck accident which resulted in paralysis in her lower exterminates. Ms. Jackson is wheelchair bond due to her paraplegia, client was referred to the SCI clinic for case management and counseling services.

When a child receives an emotional wound, it often creates an ‘infection’ that they must spend their lives overcoming and growing beyond. Mary Karr lived through a very difficult childhood and adolescence, and her reaction to it and attempts to escape from the pain caused a self-perpetuating cycle of pain and addiction in her life. Eventually, she realized that her dependency on alcohol was hurting her son and causing her to act like her mother, so she, reluctantly, turned to others and eventually the Lord for help. She learned to pray and submit instead of depend on herself and it radically changed her life. She never would have expected it when she was young, but over time praying became as necessary to her as breathing.

Disabilities within the characters of “The Life You Save May be Your Own” by Flanner O’Connor

When Brent walked into our class room, you could not tell he had any type of disability. He began talking about his high school and college days, how he participated in all sports, played baseball at UNO as a pitcher, and eventually made it to the minor leagues. He decided that he was not getting anywhere with baseball, so he made his way back to Nebraska. One day his life completely changed on his way home from Lincoln to Omaha. When traveling home, the car in front of him spun out of control, and landed in the ditch. Brent got out to help, and on his way back to his car to call for help, another car slid of the road, and hit Brent, which threw him. After 10-12 surgeries and spending a month in the hospital, Brent now has a prosthetic left leg from the knee down, and his right leg is full of pins and his ankle is bone on bone. Eventually, he will have to get a prosthetic leg on his right as well. After the accident, he was tired of people feeling sorry for him, and tired of people trying to do everything for him, especially when he was

Kyla Davidson: “It was an early morning and we had to leave our house at like 2 a.m. Then we got to the airport, well we actually had to park our car and I guess you pay to leave it for 5 days,” she said. “We missed the exit so we had to turn around and we got on the shuttle to the airport and we checked our bags and went through security and we got to the gate where we fly standby because it's a lot cheaper,” she said. “It’s only like 60 bucks a ticket, it’s supposed to be a lot more than that but it also means that it's not guaranteed that you all get on the flight but luckily all four of us got on, sometimes we will have to split up and try for the next flight but all four of us got on,” she said. It was just a one-way flight to San Fran and we got a cab and she took us to the hotel and it was a really big hotel and we were on the 14th floor I wanna say, and we put our stuff away,” She said.

While I was shadowing a physical therapist over the summer, I helped with hippotherapy, horseback riding as a means of therapeutic treatment, and met a young girl with Rett syndrome named McKenna. She can’t speak, walk, use her hands, or understand much, but she has the best smile and laugh that I have ever heard. As I helped McKenna ride her horse, Dixie, every week, I began to see her balance and coordination improve. While at her first few sessions her parents had to carry her over to the horse, by the end of the fourth week she would run over the best she could while holding her mom’s hand. My experience made me realize how much a little help can make a huge difference in a child’s life, not limited to physical changes, but emotional as well.

On August 28, 2013 my aunt gave birth to a baby boy named Braylee, he was the cutest thing ever. As I walked into the room I didn't notice my aunt crying and that everybody else was quiet, I was just excited to see and hold him for the first time. I then asked my family what was going and was told that the doctor tore some of braylee nerves in his arm when he was pulling him out during birth. My aunt informed me that Braylee brachial plexus was injured and that he eould need surgery, therapy, and that there is a possibility that he will not be able to use his arm. Braylee is now three and has had 1 surgery ablrmnnd attends therapy every week and is improving. Every chance I get I take him to therapy to learn more about his condition and things that could be done at home to help.

When reflecting on the relationship between a physical therapist and a client during treatment, I felt that techniques from Adlerian, Existential, and Rational Emotive Behavior therapy provided the most appropriate answers and explanations of tragedy, as well as promises of comfort and hope during recovery. Firsthand, I have seen individuals recuperating from strokes, spinal cord injuries, and amputations heavily rely on their physical therapists to act as a motivators and advocates when it comes to setting goals,