Independent Study 2

1. Days attended massage classes were:

• Every Tuesday & Thursday from March 1, 2011 - April 19, 2011

 2. My Log:

 

3. LIA

Literal:

• I Daisy Betancourt, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hrs. of work.
• I completed a total of 15 sessions.  I also obtained new knowledge on the anatomy of the back, which included learning the different muscles that cause inflammation and which ones do not.  Another thing was distinguishing the different types of pain a patient is having whether it be aching from soreness or pain due to fractured back, or sport injury.

  Interpretive:

• During the time that I went to my classes, I observed how to give a deep tissue massage, Swedish massage, and along with that i was able to practice on my instructor and a dummy.  I learned how to position my hands for the deep tissue massage and for the Swedish massage as well.  Along with that I was also able to identify whether different types of pain by feeling the muscle. 

  Applied:

• My independent study helped me answer my EQ because as I mentioned in it in my independent task 1 blog.  It showed me that massages can reduce inflammation on the back which is one way that pain in the back can be reduced but only temporarily.  It also led me to one of my answers which is reducing inflammation.  I came to the conclusion with this because most of the patients that came for a massage had certain muscles from the back were swollen.  Swollen muscles were treated with ice or heat therapy to reduce inflammation and that always had a positive result in patients.  I went further into researching it in different articles and books and they also said that reducing inflammation is effective in reducing back pain.