technology

Technology is a group of ideas that allow us to crate machines or programs to adapt things to our comfort and make things easier. Technology has changed the world especially the last century, because it has increases in a lot of aspects. Technologies appear thousand of years ago when the man tries to adapt and created objects to facilitate their life. The last years technology has move along for example internet, computers, photograph camera, microscope, data, prosthesis, etc. In health area, it has increased to try to heal all disease. But we tare playing to be god trying to handle everything and sometimes we forgot about the real propose of technology, that is people.

Technology has replace man, because with the increasing of technology a lot of people had lost their job because now there are machines or programs that can do the same thing and they would be more efficient and economic. But technology has facilitated our live and has helped us to develop it with more comfort.
In general, know at days people has become technology dependent, because we are so used to it that it’s difficult to try to live with out the technology that we had always had. For example Internet it has turn into the principal information source, because it not only easier to search for information, it also had information of everything. An other example that has improved work especially for physical therapist is goniometers, which help us measure ranges of movements of the patients and stethoscope to evaluate pathological sound.
In health area I think that is very risky, because you are working with lives so you have to be very exactly for operation, diagnostic, treatment, and technology makes that a lot easier, because machines are more precise that a doctor can be. But sometimes I think that people play to be like a god, because to created a knew technology they have to experiment and then test it with real humans and they don’t know how the results are really going to be, so maybe you can cause a problem in people that are playing “laboratory mouse” paper, and they would suffer the consequences.

In conclusion Technology has change people live, making easier to study, work, transports, etc. In health area it has been especially useful making people live longer and in better conditions. But technology has also like a “bad” side which is that a lot of works and things like books are being replaced, and that also has cause a society impact, and maybe in future most of jobs would be replaced by technology. I also think that people should be really careful when they create new technology that involved people because they can cause troubles.

challenges in my discipline

The challenges in my discipline involve a lot of aspects like technology, for example. In physical therapy there are a lot of machines and implements that help us to get better results with patients but they are very expensive so not all the hospitals can have the best technology. But I think that this deficiency of technology can help the imagine of the physical therapist to invent how to do something with out the machine, and I think that it really makes a very good physical therapist because they would prove that the results are from the imagination and not from a machine.
Other aspect that we should mention is social matter, because my career has a lot of impact on society at this moment, especially in Santiago because of the really bad air people get respiratory disease so they have to go to the physical therapist to help them breath. Other thing that I suppose why people like this area is because it is related with sports, so that makes it really attractive to people that like to do sports. I choose this career because you can also be an independent worker for example you can put your own consult and be your own boss, or you can work in a hospital and work half day and then you can dedicate to your family.
In future I would like to put my own consult with good implements, and being my own boss so I can make my own choices.
In this university I think that education is really good especially now with the new curricular because they teach us in first year how to palpate and how to use goniometrers to be more related with the career, and to develop habilities.
One of the bad things that physical therapy has is that we are “secondary consult”, I mean that usually you have to visit a doctor and then a physical therapist, but I think that in future that would change because a physical therapist is also qualified to make a diagnostic a patient, maybe doctors are trained to operate and a physical therapy wouldn’t ever be able to do it but that does not mean that you can not visit a phisycal therapist first.

My faculty

Today I will talk about my faculty. In my opinion my faculty has a very good infrastructure even it is a very old building. The classes are big and they have air conditional. Laboratory rooms has a lot of microscope, actually everyone has one just for them self. The anatomy rooms are big and the have a lot of dead bodies that allow a good learning from us. But not every is so perfect so, one of the things that I think that this faculty should change immediately is computers of the library, because they are very old and it does not work very well. About infrastructure I think that could be better but I understand that to improve technology and constructions, money is limiting problem.
About teachers I think that most of them are really good but some of them are not very didactic so it is kind of difficult for me to understand, and I think that for my clasemates it’s difficult too.
Physical therapy is having changing because this year they are implementing a new curriculum so there are a lot of things that they have not take care off. For example they gave us our schedule at the end of every month so that makes harder to plan study. This new curriculum has also add a lot of subjects of other years so they collapses us with information and it is too fast so It’s harder to assimilate it.
I think that this change would be good in future but it is new so they have to test it and change little details that are failing, consequently this new curriculum would educate very competent professionals.

Hobbies...

Today I am going to tell you about my hobbies. The last semester I did not have too much free time so I couldn’t do too much sport that are my favorites hobbies. Since I was young, I always liked to do extra things especially sport. When I was little I did ballet and “danza moderna”, but when I was like eleven years old, I started practicing athletics and it has become one of my favorites sport and hobbies. I started practicing it at school with a lot of friends but when the years passed by my friends deserted on this activity, so in my secondary school I was the only one that still persisting. In my last secondary year I was not to rigorous with my training because of the PSU but last semester I did anything at all! So now I am trying to resume my training because I really like it and it is very good for me.
Athletic was not only good for my health, it teached me a lot of things like persevering. When I started doing this I was not a very talented person and sometimes that makes me feel disappointed, but I keep persevering and working hard, even If I was not very good, and there is a phrase that express perfectly my idea: all the work has fruits, so after work hard a lot of years my training started to make effect, and then I was not bad at athletic, actually I was very good. These teach me that I can do what ever I want, but I would have to be patient and work for it.
And other thing that I would like to recover is that I met a very important person that still being a very important to me and that is my coach. After all those years I really get to met her and be came very close and she has helped me with a lot of things and a found a person that it is so much more than just a coach is more like a friend.

holidays destinations

It’s kind of difficult to choose just one place where I have had a great time, because the last four years I had really enjoy all my vacations in different places, but if I have to pick just one I would choose Punta Cana in Dominic Republic.
I went to Punta Cana three years ago in winter vacations with a family’s friend so I could do everything with my friend. What I really like about this place was that you can do lot activities but you can also rest if you want to. The “Paradisus hotel” (where I staid) was “all inclusive” so you can have what ever you want to drink or eat, and it also includes different restaurants with food of different countries. In my stay in this country I did a lot of things like diving, walks, sail, sunbathing, go shopping, excursions, parting, swimming with sharks, go to a natural pool, etc. As you can see in Punta Cana you won’t get bored!
In my next summer holidays I would like to go out of Chile but I think that It would not be possible this year because I don’t have any money and It is a little late to plan something out of the country.
I think that this summer I would like to spend it with my friends and my family, because I have not seen them too much this years, so I’m planning to be with my parents one month and go to somewhere with my friends the other month.
I feel that vacations with my parents has to be more a relaxing and calm because I am going to be very tired at the end of the year, so I need a “recovering vacations” first and then a “party vacations” with my friends.
With my friends I like to rent a house in some nice beach where we can go to the beach and bathing in the sea, go to fairs, to make excursions, but it is very important that this place has to be good to party and to go clubbing. Taking these requirements I think that Viña del Mar would be an excellent option for summer holidays.
I hope that everything goes right this year so I can take long and beautiful holidays!

LBP

Low back pain (LBP) is second most common reason for seeing a physical therapy, actually 85% will have the experience of suffering these kind of pain.
For young people this problem is not as complicated as old people because younger than 45 years old can fix their problem between 2-4 weeks, but the older individuals is not that easy so it cause a lot of troubles at works.
It is very important the management and treatment of mechanical low back pain so at 21st century governments, doctors, organization make awareness providing the information to prevent musculoskeletal impairments.
LBP can be cause by a traumatic event or cumulative trauma that can be produces in workplace and an other cause can be neuropathic is approximately 2% reported in persons aged 40-59 years, degenerative changes, herniated disk about 4%, or osteoporogic compressions 4%.
The sex prevalence has not been established, but 50-90% of pregnancy women develop LBP in very early weeks of pregnancy.
Persons that are affected with this kind of disease usually present on their history records: falls, car accidents, prolongated sitting, working with vibrating machines, etc.
LBP is not connected with mortality, but we make sure that these disease affect most of people especially the oldest one, and it is one of the most usually excuses of people to be absent at work.

About transantiago...

I think that transantiago is not a very good system for this city and I think that it’s very important to say that this idea was bought to Spain, but now at days that country doesn’t use that system because it didn’t work so why do Chilean government thought that it will works in Santiago?
I think that the new machines are in better condition but they are too big for Santiago’s streets so sometimes when it has to turn in a corner it is very difficult. I also think that people take more time to get to an other places that it took before, because the rout are different and shorter than there was before, and now If you want to get to some place you have to take more than just one bus.
But Transantiago is not a completely disaster, because the Bip has help to the security of the drivers because before assault were very common, and not just drivers are safeties, the new machine has camera to get record of what is happening inside of the bus.
Transantiago is better too in the problem of the races that the drivers did because they wanted to catch more people to get a better salary, so it was very dangerous because they drove very fast, and it was very used that the bus didn’t stop when you ask theme to stop, so our time and punctuality used to depends on driver’s mood.
Transantiago started being a completely disaster but I think that it is so much better now because they have really worry about people’s needed so they make new ways, more buses and control the time that buses takes in their ways.