Individual+Group+Ideas

Mary McDonald 6b 12-6-11 **__ Investigation Reflection Prompt __**

The topic that I would most like to work on is to learn about the job of a Physical Therapist. I am interested in what their job is like in depth and would like to focus on the elbow/arm/hand area. I would also like to research about the rehab involved.

Some background information on this topic is that I have experienced a very traumatic incident to my elbow/arm/hand and would like to incorporate into this presentation what it is like to go through something like what I went through. I broke my elbow in several places and damaged my nerve while playing soccer and so had to go to Madison to see a specialist. I would also be able to set up an interview with a Physical Therapist since I am frequently seeing one anyways. She has really taught me a bunch of stuff about how the nerves, muscles, and bones all work in your arm! Lastly, I have materials that are related to the subject that I would be able to incorporate into the project such as the dynamique splint that I have had to often wear, x-rays of my arm before and after the incident, the screw that the doctors put in my arm to fix me up (They //did// clean it before giving it to me!), and the scar to prove that it all really did happen!

I selected this option because this injury has been a huge part of my life for the past few months and, though you may not realize it, I have gone through an awful lot. I would like to share this experience with other people in hopes that they might better understand what it is like for people who have disabilities due to severe accidents. I know my injury was on a smaller scale than some of those kinds of things, but it sure is more than a normal broken arm or leg! After all, I may not gain all of the range of motion in my arm back.

Another reason why I would like to research this topic is because I have grown increasingly more interested about Physical Therapists as I have continued to work with one. Their jobs are very important and I would like to know a little bit more about what they do. Maybe I will want to be one when I grow up! I was also hoping that we would be able to interact with the audience by demonstrating on one of them some of the PT stretches I do. Lastly, I think there is a lot of information out about this topic and I won’t have to worry about stressing out because I can’t //find// enough.

I //really// want to research more about a Physical Therapist for this project and I feel it could turn out to be a **terrific** project!

== I want to study how antique clocks work. I want to study how they work because I have always found them very interesting and fascinating! When I was younger at my grandpas house there was this big clock that had a wind-up key in the back. You could twist the key and watch the gears turning, it was awesome to me. I know how clocks work, and I have gone through and looked into the clocks and I have seen them being fixed and built. I want to do antique clocks instead of new clocks because they have more of a differently wired and geared system on the inside, and are very different then modern clocks. I find the antique clocks more in-depth and fun to observe and build then the modern clocks. I have several different clocks that we could use, I have the big wind-up key one, and we could barrow it. I have several other antique clocks that we could use to! I think showing models of antique clocks and how they work would be a very good topic choice for my group! ==