Set up to Fix electrodes
Hello! I just completed week #4 at Frazier Rehab. This week was a success, I spent 3 days with the engineering core. They taught me a lot about all the different tasks their job requires. I learned to check nonfunctional electrodes for exposed or crossed wires, and I learned how to fix them, I later practiced on already retired electrodes. They also taught me how to counter board and when it might be useful. We also did a few other projects that were necessary; for example we hung a cork board for the 11th floor and extended electrical cords to make equipment functional for a tilt table.
Set up to fix the milling machine
When I wasn’t with the engineering core, Tuesday & Thursday, I spent my day on the 15 floor working on projects. For these projects I was adding overlays to videos to use in research sessions. My job was to get these videos to say what exercise is being performed-squats, Heel toe shifts, Lateral shifts, etc.,- along with what part of the exercise -up, down, left, right, front, back, ect.- and for how long to stay in each position. I created a video approximately 1 hour long for each possible number of repetitions of each exercise with each of the three possible rest times between each exercise. The purpose of these videos is to make the training sessions easier for the participant and to reduce the room for human error during the study because it reduces the stress on the physical therapist allowing them to focus on the participant.
For this week, and probably the rest of my internship, I leave my host home at 6:45 and I get to work by ~7;25. Just enough time to get a coffee in the cafeteria before heading to the 9th floor gym for a morning standing session with STEM. So it was nice to sleep in this weekend, and in the afternoon we went with our host family and spent the day at the pool till near closing around 8. Today our host family took us to Mammoth Cave; the largest cave system in the world. It was astonishing and super neat to see. And afterwards we went on a short hike to a spring. Absolutely beautiful, I definitely have to come back to see it again.
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