viernes, 20 de noviembre de 2009

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.

viernes, 13 de noviembre de 2009

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.

viernes, 6 de noviembre de 2009

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.

viernes, 30 de octubre de 2009

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.

viernes, 23 de octubre de 2009

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!

viernes, 16 de octubre de 2009

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.

viernes, 4 de septiembre de 2009

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.

viernes, 14 de agosto de 2009

my experiences during the first term of 2009...

The last semester was a very stressing moment, but I think that I learn a lot of things that would be necessary for the future in my major. For example I learned anatomy, histology, chemistry, biology, etc. and al these things are very important to understand the base of physical therapy. Like I said Last semester I didn’t have too much free time so I didn’t do too much exercise, witch is a very bad thing because I really like sports and I am a very active person so it’s good to liberate my energy. One of the things that I love of this semester is that we have sports signature, so know I am obligate to do exercise.
In my free time I tried to be with my friends and family, I really miss them know that I don’t see them too much. Actually it’s kind of complicated too deal with all the responsibilities because you need to dedicate a lot of time to everything, like friends, family, boyfriend, to study, sports…
My first semester in University was really hard because it’s very different demand comparing school with university, for example if last year I just needed to study 3 hours at week, know I need to study 3 hours at day al least! And I have more test or controls that I have in school. Last semester my challenge was just passing all my signatures and I did it so I’m very proud of me.
I love my major but it is really hard, so I just have to keep perseverating to be a good professional.

sábado, 27 de junio de 2009

my ideal job

My ideal job is working as a physical therapist of curse. I think that I had already told you that I would like to work on Teletón, because I really like Traumatologic area, and Teletón is perfect for this area. To work in things like this you do not need just a good knowledge about human body, you also need to be a person that shows sympathy, full of hope, and happy because people needs to be around of happy people that motivates them to fight. I think that I am a very hopefull person so I can motivate people to keep trying over and over, and I realle like to help people, so I will never get tired of it. I don’t know how hard t is to find a job in physical therapy area, but I think that to work in Teletón you have to be a very good professional, because you are working with people and with there problems so if you make a mistake you can cause very important problems.
I also would like to work at the same time in something more artistic but it would be more like a hobby, for example taking photographs.

ken robinson

When children are born, they are highly creative, you could say that all children are born artists, reasons are many, but high among them is their not being afraid to be wrong, when they grow up, they loose that capacity, this is caused mainly by the education we give them.
Our education system was developed during the industrial revolution, when a job was given mainly to students that had academic abilities on scientific subjects, not on artistic subjects, son emphasis was given to those subjects, and also students where following these criteria, because if you didn´t have a job, it meant poverty for your family.
So creative people were not good at school and could not find a job after graduating.
Now we have found that intelligence is dynamic and that different talents are needed to be able to survive on the long term for humanity.
But still education systems are pretty much the same as it has been since its conception.
So our goal is to rethink education and balance what our children are going to learn in terms of our future needs.

viernes, 26 de junio de 2009

about blogs......

Today I have to talk about my blogger experience. I had never use a blogs before, and I do not really like it very much, actually I am very happy that this is the last one J (no offences). I don’t like it because I do not like to just “talk” about something by my self with out an answer of an other person. I like to talk with people and I feel more comfortable in situation that is more interactive, that you can communicate with other people face to face. Maybe I would like blogs if I choose a subject that I would like to write about and not a topic that maybe I don’t like and that makes it harder because I don’t have very good ideas to communicate (for example now I’m running out of ideas!! So then I have to think a lot because I have to write 300 words) I like blogs but when someone wants it.
It was very difficult to me to learn how to use this blog because I’m not use to it, so every time that I have to write a know blog I had to ask somebody to explain me how to do it over and over again, and then I had to do a commentary about blogs of other people so that was an other big problem. And other fact to consider why I do not like blogs is that when I do it it is Friday afternoon so I am tired and I just want to go home after a long and hard weekend.
However (it’s a little hard to belive after all I criticised blogs) I think that this activity is a very original to evaluate us, and it really helps me a lot to develop my habilities for English, especially vocabulary and writing.
Good bye forever!

viernes, 12 de junio de 2009

anatomy

My favourite subject is Anatomy. This is a very difficult subject but I really like it and I think that it will be very useful in the future as a physical therapist. In anatomy we learn all the parts of our body and how it works, I really like it because it is something that you are always watching and you can see how it is, is not like chemistry that you will never see an atom and I think that it’s amazing to see how our body works.
They are a lot of teachers in this area but my favourite is Rodolfo Sanzana (L), because he teaches very good and I can notice that he really likes what he do, so that makes me love anatomy more. This semester I had learned a lot! Especially in anatomy because they are A LOT of names of muscle, bones, nerves, etc. actually they are so much names that you will never learn all of the names.
So good luck with anatomy!

In five years.....

What I’m going to be doing in 5 years? I don’t know what exactly I will be doing in five years because all lot of things can change in a few time, so maybe I won’t even be here (I hope not). I would like to be finishing my major and be a successful physical therapist. I would like to work in Teletón or some place related with sports and physical therapy. I also imagine my self with a boyfriend (I hope so) because it would be time to settle down my life, so I would like to live by my own and be a completely independent woman.
I hope that in that time I would still having the same friends that I have know because they are a very important part of my life and I need them for the future.
In conclusion if thing results just like I plan them everything would be perfect! So I hope that god and luck is with me.

viernes, 5 de junio de 2009

one of the best!...

It’s very difficult to me to choose just one person because I don’t know too much people specialised in kinesiology or traumatalogic area and I think that they are a lot of very good people.
If I have to choose one person that I admire is my grandfather Jorge Del Río. He was a very good traumatologic, that was completely focus on his job and people with they work. He worked in a lot of places but I think that the most important was the Teletón, because it is a very important system in our country that helps a lot of people. As you can see that my grandfather was a very good example for all de people especially for me because physical therapist works with doctors like my grandfather.
Unfortunately my grandfather passed away a few years ago, but he won’t be remember just for his family, he will be remember for all the people that he helped in his life.

sábado, 16 de mayo de 2009

My career

I am studying this career because I like helping people, medical areas have always attracted me, and I think, as the population is growing older and social benefits are increasing, hospitals and similar services will continue to expand, so my career will be in great need, so I will have many opportunities to work. Also people are having everyday less exercise, because they work all day, men and women, son muscular pains and aches will be part of everyday problems, so big companies, also will need to have special professionals to treat their own employees, without them having to leave the office.
We will need to have x ray machines and similar equipment to allow us to look into people´s bodies and detect injuries, we will also need to rehabilitate patients, with special machinery to make them walk, move or run in protected environments, and also heat or ultrasonic producing equipment for when needed.
My favorite subject is anatomy, and I also think is one of the most difficult ones, because it is totally new to me, and I need to learn by memory difficult names of body parts that are very similar among them, and it is very easy to get confused.

viernes, 8 de mayo de 2009

A beautiful photograph....


I really like photographs because I think that they are very specials because they make me remember moments or places of the pass. It’s a little difficult to choose just ONE photograph because I like a lot of photographs, but I finally found the right one. The picture that I choose was taken in “Isla de Pascua”, Chile. In the picture we can see a “Moai” with a beautiful sunset behind. These photograph was taken by Cecilia Cortès Berrios, I don’t know who she is because a got this picture from National Geographic (It always has very good god imagines). I don’t know when was this picture taken, and I like it because It has the typical sunset colours, which are beautiful.I also like it because it was taken in our country and I like that other people know that Chile is a beautiful country.I haven’t gone to Isla de Pascua but I would really like to meet it.

viernes, 24 de abril de 2009

The website that I really enjoy is “Catálogo Bello”. I didn’t know this website until I had a class where the teacher taught us how to investigate in a website, and I found this website on the date base of the university. I don’t usually visit it because I don’t have too much free time, but when I have to do homework, or I don’t understand something, or I’m just looking for information I visit “Catálogo Bello”. I visit it like once a week.
I like this web site because it is in Spanish so it is easier to understand the specific vocabulary that it has. I also like it because it doesn’t have just Physical Therapy information. It also has information of whatever you want. In this website you can find information of other universities like Oxford and national library. This web site is very good to look for information, because you can search very specifically about some topics.
I invite you to visit this web site: http://catalogo.uchile.cl/web2/tramp2.exe/log_in?setting_key=bellohttp://catalogo.uchile.cl/web2/tramp2.exe/log_in?setting_key=bello

domingo, 19 de abril de 2009

my favorite technology

I think that the greatest invent of these century is computer. Computer is very useful but also funny: you can play online, chat with your friends, but the most important is the access to the information, because if you want to know something of any topic you can found it on the Internet, so homework is so much easier.
Computers are easy to use, any person can learn how to use it, it doesn’t matter the age (sometimes to old people it’s very difficult to adapt to the technology).
It’s very good to communicate by Internet with people you know, because sometimes you know people but you don’t have the trust to call them to ask something or just to know how are they doing?, so the chat it’s perfect to do this.
I don’t remember very well since when I have a computer, so it means that is very old, slow and unproductive.
I love computers since I was little, I used to play all day long and now I use it to talk with friends, to find information and to do homework.

viernes, 3 de abril de 2009

My name is Margarita Phillips, I am 18 years old and I live in Santiago, Chile. I studied in Apoquindo school and I last year I finished and I took PSU test, and now I'm studying Physical Therapy, which I love but also it's very difficult because I don't have too much free time to do my hobbies.
I really like sports and volleyball is one of my favorites, actually I would like to start practicing it when I have a little more time.
I live with my two parents and Ihave two sisters, the oldest one is working . She is a lawyer, but she doesn't live with me, and the other one is going to a law university, so as you can see I am the only one who is not studying anything with the humanistic area.
I love animals, I have a beautiful old cat which sleeps with me and a little dog which is very funny. It is always running around the house.
that's it, I don't know what else you would like to know about me but any questions you can ask.