Technology on my subjects

Many of us say that we do not have technology on our career, well I will try to find the elements wich have to helped to me to make easier the most complicated things. We live surrounded of many technologies things and we are so used to these, that we do not notice the rest. I mean technology for everybody could be computers, mp3's, cell phones, etc. But we can find it in a abject as simple like a goniometer. It is truth, this faculty and our career do not spotlight like the modernst one, however, without these pieces, we are not be at the same level.

First of all, in every subject, in every single class we use the data show and the computer, objects present for a long time ago in our lives, but the frecuency that we use them now, is different, without them we would advance to 10 k/h. They allow us to have all the material able in the web and that facilitates a lot of things. In the end we save the precious time.
In biology and histology classes utilized microscope and of course in the english ones: the computer.
Internet is a tool that is and will be always present, in everything! Nowadays we can not be disconnected, because every minute a so important information is being uploaded (in your personal mail, the class mail, etc). If you do not have internet you are dead in these career, just like that. There are no excuses. I think is a little unfair because maybe not everybody have the money and library's computers are of the old-world.
By another far hand we have the physical therapy instruments: All of these new to us and employed in the functional anatomy classes. I think the first one was our dear goniometer, a simple instrument wich looks like a rule mixed with a protactor, but works to measure the grade of our articulations. Others are the flowmeters and the stethoscope. Yes, they are not the most complex, but what do we do, the physical therapist without them?

I can not imagine how would be our student life with more technology. I really do not know if we really need it, for some reason we are the best. Some people say, as a science area career, we need to be more and more connected with the last technology.
By the moment we just need this, but I know later we will have to keep us enlightened or we can lose the war of the technology in the market world. We want it or not, it is already here and every little change could change our knowledge and our work forever.

Challenges in my discipline

Hello everyone. This time we come back to talk about my careerPhysical Therapy is the second highest valued and paid after medicine, nevertheless the breach wich separe them is to big.
Let see what are the dificulties it has to cross, I mean what are the problems.
First of all in social matters, Physical Therapy is seen like the discipline chosen because they do not reach for medicine and people has no a good culture about it. Very few people know what a physical therapist really does and also as it is not first consult, nobody can go if the doctor does not ask it. Our consult is so much cheaper than going to a doctor, so if we were first consult, people would save a lot of money because, you know we can start to heal without invade your body.We have to spread this, a strong pain can be resolved just with a move. And how do we do it? Making Physical therapy like a first consult.
Directly relationed with social matters is the economic resources and with this is the technology, but this is not just a problem of this discipline, all the health disciplines have this typical issue: Private sectors has more and better resources, more technology, more machine that is so important here, because it does the work faster and people obviously is going to prefer these ones, so if we do not equilibrate this situation now, we will never can to reach medicine or give to everybody the best service posible.
In the education area, I think we are ok. We have almost the same education and subjects that the rest of the disciplines . The problems that I see are that in many institutes you can take this career and obviously it is not the same, because this places do not make you a professional, they do not know everything that they have to know and nevertheless this people has the grade of physical therapist and by another hand the specialties are obtained just for little courses and not necesarialy like an extension of the university career like in medicine.
Despite of all of this, physical therapy is growing and growing everyday so we can be sure that it will have a better place soon.

Things that I would improve in my faculty

Well I can imagine if you read my title you would say ''Oh, more complaints about it!''I am conscious that with you, my dear readers, are mostly of my faculty, so we have a lot of things in common about it.
The first reaction when I came here, to the faculty I found it beautiful from the outside, but inside it looked like a public clinic so I just would like a group of people be responsible to restore it in the order the faculty look fresher.I really don't know what is the current problem of here, maybe is about money and the investments that are done. I know, much of the money goes to investigations, aside to the students. For example: there is a big problem with the technology, specially with the computers: are very few and always are damaged and are too slow, so please I know the university can do a better effort.
By another hand I feel dissatisfied about the management of the garbage: we don't have a real recycling program and in this times is world important make conscience about it and more important as faculty of medicine (health sciences to be exactly) . With this measure we all will be beneficiated, we just cannot permit this situation keep increasing. I don't know about others faculties, but I think it should be an obligation almost as also it should be the green areas to relax!This and others things bothers a little, others like the aprobation system: all the exams are failing and if you reprove one, you have to lose a whole year, that is unfair! one, you have to lose a whole year, that is unfair!
Ok. Not everything is bad here. Faculty of medicine I love you anyway and I'm very proud to be part of you.

Hobbies!

Hi followers !
Today I am going to tell you about the things that I like to do most: my hobbies. I can imagine we have a lot of these things in common, but also we never finish to know each other. I think it is so necesary to the life keeping busy in something else than the studies. I could not live if I didn't it. Into my favourite hobbies are the sports and arts because I think that your soul is who asks you keeping a balance between your body, mind and that crazy part that nobody knows. I started training basketball and athletics, but I early realized I really wanted to practice football, so that is what I do at these days and I like a lot: both in watching it as in do it. I play it us much as possible I can: in my school, the U, with my friends, footbal academy. The sad part of the history is that before, I felt so much free and good than now, but it's ok. By the other hand I have drawing, when I was a child I used to do it more frequently, then I stoped to do it around four years and I lost much of my capability, but now I am doing it and I come back to feel what I feel before. Also it is playing the guitar , watching movies (but the real cinema)and acting, sorry, but I stop to do it as before, one reason is time and the other is that my personality has changed dramatically when I gone a teenager, maybe I left to dream a little and this is what has decrease my creativity, but that doesn't mean I gave up liking it.Of course I have known so much people in these activities and these are one of the most beautiful things because you know there is people like you and sometimes so much special , people that inspires you.Finally I can say: the hobbies do who you are, you never stop to practice because, these keep you in harmony, they complete you, with everything this includes.It's not necesary having a talent or an motor hability, you just need the feeling.

Holidays!

OK.
Today I am going to tell you about something much more light, like vacations. :DWhen you say holidays, I undertand summer and when I say summer I understand beach.
I am from the fourth region so the place that I have visited most in my life are the beach of there, specially Tongoy and Guanaqueros. Those are the places where I have the mostly of my memories when I was a child. Everytime year in february, all my paternal family and me went to Tongoy, where I could see my cousins of Santiago and we spent a great time. I just can remember good moments of creativity, laziness and actually, those are the first times when I went to the bed late.Sometimes, after of Tongoy, only my parents, my sister, my brother and me were to any other place like Viña del Mar and once we went to the north, passing by Iquique, Arica and reaching Tacna.Now, how I am a little older I go to the beach with my friends. We rent a hut in Guanaqueros, reaching to be twelve of us. So you can imagine how we spent that time: Getting up late, going to the beach in the afternoons and going out at the nights to bonfires and pubs. Those were excess of misbehave moments.I hope for the next summer to spend a lot of time with my family in the beach because those are the thing that I miss them, how i am not with them this year. Of course I want to stay with my friends to, because we are spread throughout the country and that is the moment to see us all of us, apart from september.Sadly, into my plans, also is to work. I have to save a lot of money for my giant travel that I want to do to Europe. That is the dream that I have wanted to make true all my life where I am planig to know different people, to learn another language or practice my english and basicly to live new experiences that changes me. I don not know yet, who I am going to go with, but I am not desperate. I have a good amount of money, but it is not enough yet.I hope my summer brings me a lot of surprises forever, but also, that it does not brush aside my favorite traditions.

Ankle sprain What treatments work?

The Ancle is the most important segment of our body.
Why? Because it support the rest of your whole body, so it is so important that you can repare it, as soon as possible you can.
Here are some really effective treatments and some wish you will lose your time.
The first, always are the RICE (don't forget this acronyn). This is Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.
Rest of course, because when you just get the injury, it is not good give it more tenssion.
You shouldn't move it a lot if hurts to much, but just when the pain has decrease, it is better you move a little bit more each day.
The ice will help to get down the swelling, but not to cure the real problem.
If the ligaments ankle are torn, you have to support it and this is better with a elastic bandage that with a plaster or a tape, the plaster can cause you trombosis and the tape an allergic reaction.
Surgery: Do it just in case the pain and the activity of your ankle is really bad later of a months.
Physiotherapy: This includes heat, ultrasound and axercises. We are agree that exercises are best part. This helps to make stronger your muscles and increase your flexiblity to prevent futures lessons and also if these are balance exercise how to standing in one leg, the recovery will be much better. Ask to your phisycal therepist when you can start to do it.
A treatment that doesn't really work are the ultrasound.
Remember, the movement is always better!

You can see the complete article here http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/besttreatments/ankle-sprain-treatments

What to do / where to go in Santiago

When people come here can find it like a very boring place, but it's not like this.Although you don not believe it Santiago has natural places and art districts.Starting from the orient, remember we have one of the biggest mountain ranges of the world, so you must to visit the Valle Nevado, the biggest winter center of Southamerica, and it is situated at 46 km from Santiago and with 107 km of trails you can make activities such ski, snowboard, heli-ski, ala delta and helisurf. Go enjoy exciting feelings beside of a excelent service. In the center of the city, it's impossible that you can't see the great San Cristobal hill forming the ''Parque metropolitano'' and taking their feet the ''Barrio Bellavista''.The hill is located between Recoleta and Providencia and within it is the Zoologico Nacional and ''Santuario de la santísima Concepción'' in the peak, of course you don't have to climb to the top walking, for it are the railsways and the cable cars watching all the city. If you take down, you will see beautiful and colourful bohemian districts such us Barrio Bellavista where you cannot pass by without get in in its restaurants, pubs and discos and the historic place like the Museum-House ''La Chascona'', the extraordinary house of the great poet,Pablo Neruda. Also there are the Parque Forestal and Barrio Lastarria. Here you will see charming coffees, museums (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and Museo de Arte contemporáneo) art in its walls, everywhere! just like the europeans ones. So you can take a walk enjoying the quietness and forgetting the pollutions and noise, feeling you free in a crazy night. Finally you are free to get out of the city and go to visit the natural areas. The Natural monument, Cajón del Maipo offers you an imponent conserved space where you can forget of the rest of the world, going to spas and special programmes of stress reduction wich includes walks, treking, rafting, etc and besides you can do wine tours such Valle de colchagua and Concha y Toro where you will can find out how here the best wines are done.

Transantiago, before and after

When I heard about Transantiago and how this was going to work, I thought inmediately in a bad idea. The bigger size of the buses made me think in a slower frequency, and it was like this at the beggining.
Also I found ridiculous having to take almost always the metro.
Well, such I was thought it was so.
But later, much later the things Started to change and bit by bit, it made better.
As I see: for some people Transantiago is better and others were injured.
I know the yellow buses were more direct, and al though you maybe delayed more, you didn’t have to worry about doing many changes and like this you were quiter during the travel.
Now there are shorter tours and larger too. The shorter ones are master, because there are in your zone.
How I am not from Santiago, I did not use it so much at the beggining and I can not compare with the pre system or with the beggining of this, but I can compare with different destinations: For example if I have to g oto the university from my house it is so exhausting because I have to mix and most of the times to run for arriving early, so it is a little stressful. and If a have to go to Providencia the travel is the best: I take it almost empty, I go seated and is direct and fast.
But I have to say that many things have improved, such as, now the busiest bus stops are faster.
What I do is put a master road in the L1 as those of the green and blue ones, because that line is so collapsed and it have to many stops.
That is all.

A country I would like to visit

I am going to talk about one of my favourite places in the world. First of all, the countries that I like most are the European ones and within them are Italy France and England. Why? Because they preserve much of the romanticism, the art and the traditions of the past ages, but always are ahead of the rest of the planet.So I am confused about what of these I would choice.On the one hand I like the language and the landscape of Italy, but the art that is in the air of France kills me and maybe both are better than England… so my choice will be Italy because I think the people is more gentle and I am thinking in this country for staying a long time and maybe I would visit France between times.

I know a little the language because I listened before a lot of Italian music and I learned to talk a little. I know, also, about its exquisite feed and its perfect clime; The sun, the music, warm people, the fruit, its colours and mixing a classic world with the best of fashion, not forgetting waking up every day with a smile in your face in a romantic country where everything could happen. Those are all things you can smell in a picture.I would like go to the beach and know the classic architecture and art walking along its stone streets.I would love work and live there of course, but maybe for my career is a little difficult so I would travel to there for a short time, maybe to learn the language and I would see how it is, to come back later.What else I could say? Who does not like to live there?

My summary of previous experience

Well, I am going to talk about my experience during the first semester. Obviously when you think about the first time in the college, you think that the life is going to change. And it is like this most of the time, specially for me because I am not from here like the rest of my classmates.
I Knew that the level of work was going to be totally different of the school, overcoat because we have the new course handbook. So we had many courses in a little time, like chemistry, biology, anatomy, etc and now we are studying the same one of the second grade.
At the beggining was diffucult for me, because I was so far from my family and the most of my friends and i had to learn to cook by myself and organice my time so well.
But not everything was so bad. I take the CFG of theater, an experience that I wanted to live from all my life and I entered to soccer team of my faculty too, that, by the way, we finished at the top in the first phase of the championship so I spent a great time and met a los ot people.
And that is all more or less.

Do Schools kill creativity?

Yes hehe... That is the first thing I say when I see that question.
I am talking about a video where Sir Ken Robinson tell us about a truth so commented by many of us, but never analized so well as he does.A way that keeps on attentive and so easy to convince
My admiration Sir Ken.
He says that the typical system education that we have has at the top the mathematics and laguages. And those are most important for the common of the people. We all so convinced that that the way it is, that we forgot many other important areas are arts such us music, painting.We confuse the humanist areas with the thinking. The truth is that we only receive what the ''older people'' teach us, that we don't do anything by ourself, we live in a world where everything has to be stablished, so we are not able to do something new...to be wrong.
I am gonna take a quote of him...It says more or less like this:If you are not prepared to be wrong, You'll never come with anything original.
So true!
Areas as the arts are so much important and do not to be taken are a downtime. It is the only one tool to create. We can take it and do more things than working in scientific areas, engineering and all of that, or maybe we can take it for that, we can take for anything! because arts open your mind and it does not have to be less important. Arts fix everything and move the world.



School kills creativity, ladies and gentlemen, but the old school and we have to create a new school, a school for the life, not for the work.

My Blogging Experience

I would say that at the end I enjoyed my English blogging experience.At the beggining I felt that was a little boring and was so much difficult before than now, to me.As we always worked in the Friday’s afternoons, I think that I was tired most all the time and knowing that we had to stay over here till six PM it was a little annoying but bit by bit it started to like to me and sometimes it was relaxing.In some subjects I enjoyed can expressing my feelings and it was a good chance to do it. But it was another where it was so difficult to me having to writing things that I didn’t matter. Maybe it was because I just wanted that the week ended soon.I can say that the blogging helped to me to think faster in English when I need. At the same time I am going thinking, I am going to writing in English and not in Spanish and that is the most important thing. Also it helped to practice the English, and although I did not learn to much new words, more than anything helped to me to make better my grammar and could solve some doubts.The blogging made that I could pass the barrier of the language.Despite all of that I think we could do things so much productive and actives and not to have to write once and other time because it made so repetitive and we did not go on.Some advantages could be that it was easy to us, because as we were tired, maybe we did not have the energy to do something to get involved more brain activity. Other advantage is the fact that we had the obligation to investigate more about our careers. As a conclusion I can say Blogging it was a great idea that with the pass of the time I learnt to value and it is sad that this is the last.

My Ideal job

My ideal job in an ideal very ideal world would be to be an actress or something like that.For that, you have to, obviously,to have the art skills, those I would like to have much more that I have now. I don’t think it is enough if you don’t born with that and work and work, because you need, more that the capability and talent, you need to have the feeling, the different thought, the emotion, and that is something you can not buy in the shop.Also you need the personality, because all that you do and say will be listened by the rest of the world and that is beautiful of this: communicatingI think I would be good in this job, because I have the personality, I learn quickly and I like to do different things and most of the time, I have no shame of making fools of myself. Despite of all that, I need more practice and honestly I don’t feel prepared to throw myself to act for the life, but we are talking about an ideal future. Aren’t we??I like this job because the freedom that it has, for me, that is so important, but the diffuculties would be being valued an artist, because you are not the only one, and you really need to excel and shine from the rest of the people and you have to know it’s not so good paid, at least you be a famous one.

My favourite subject

I am going to talk about my favorite subject what is anatomyIs one of the reasons, I think, of why many of us are studying a career like this.In my class the teachers are: Rodolfo Sanzana who is so kind and teaches slowly, so that way we can capture easier contents as complex as these.The second teacher is Elias Fernandez, for me he is the wisest and learned of the theme. He know each single part of the body, the bones and ligaments at the perfection, but his class are hard to get.The next one is Miguel Soto the funniest. I love him because he always comes out with something new and you really have the desire to listen him, although his way of teach is a little entangled .And the last one, but not the less important is Ximena Rojas, the master in nerves. Just like Soto, she is funny in a so natural way and she sures that we learn exactly what we need. I really love to be in her lessons, well she is special. I like anatomy, because the human body is beautiful and perfect and anatomy teachs you how exactly you can know it.This year I have learnt a lot of things, since the minimun face's bones, till the arms. I feel that everytime, it makes me easier to me, however also, that I will never know everything.

My Ideal future :O

When I saw the questions, a lot of things started to run through my head. I don’t know if I have to talk about my career one more time. There are some days where I see myself in the future doing this, physical therapy, like everybody else here, but there are days too, where I’m not sure about this, because during all my life I though in many kind of things, not too typical and by another hand I do like it.I see many people happy in this, I see a good future and I think it's a complete career, though I know that many of my classmates are not really so convinced and I think is pretty normal, but I don't want that all of we finish doing something we do not want at all.Ok, independent of this I would be studying for the next five years. But that's not all I want to do. I also want to travel a lot and for that I have to have a lot of money, so of course i'm going have to work, a little bit in my area, a little bit in a store and I think to sell some of my things.If I continue studying here, of course I am going to keep living here in Santiago, but in my ideal future I would love to live in every part of the world.For the next five years I hope to have advanced my career enough, traveled a lot, known many interesting people but always with the most important pillars of the life: Cience, sports, arts and love.

The best in my area

Although I don't know many physical therapists.
I think the best has to be a person who is able to reach so far and work in an important place and with the best people.
The best in Chile, for me is Dario Correa.
I knew about him, by my ex teacher who is doing with him a Master’s in the University Andres Bello in High Performance Sport.
He is a physical therapist of the Universidad de Chile and the head of the physical therapy service of the CAR (The most important sport high performance centre in my country) . Moreover he teaches in the Finis Terrae University.
I like him because he is doing what I want to do and that is why I admire him. I think you have to do a lot of things to have a responsibility as big as that and, as I have always wanted to know how they work, my ex teacher told me that he said we can go to the CAR anytime we want and see what and how they do it :D.
Maybe he is not the best in my whole area like medicine and all its aspects, but as I fix my mind in this subject for me. He deserves to be here.

My career

Well, you know I'm studying physical therapy in the Universidad de Chile.
I'm doing it because I always had a interest in this area, as well as in medical matter as in sports things. So this was a perfect mix of both, although I had to say that I never had so clear what I was going to study,really.
I know that many people who study physical therapy thinks fisrt in medicine, but i have to tell you that my career is one that makes you fall in love of it.
The profesionals of this, just like the rest of the career of the health's area has a great vocation of service and specifically the physical therapist contributes mostly to the prevention and rehabilitation of the injuries through physical exercises.
I think the tools that we could need in the future can be also psychologicals like the humility, besides the physical tools such as a simple stick or a strange like electronic muscle estimulation. All that is because the time is running so quickly, the technology go on and we have to stop and think the real sense of why are we waht we are. The profession has more and more subjects any time and the workforse is becoming more widespread. Despite of that my favourite subject always be the sport area, that one was the reason of my decision to be here. So I would love to contribute to improve the athlete's performance and I know the U will give all the tools that i'll need =)

My favourite photograph right now

I´m gonna tell you about an important photograph to me. Athough first of all, let me tell you it's so hard having to pick just a picture in this moment.

This is the most beautiful cat of the world, Blanki XP

The picture shows her when she was a baby. So cuteee!! :P

I took it by myself with my cell phone the last year i think, when we were at the garden.

.It was very hard to do it because she moved very much ,however it was a great moment.

I wanted take a picture like this for a long time ago.

For me, it's a perfect combination: a cat, the nature, the expression, if you pay atention you will see that she gives a feeling, I really feel so much with them.

Moreover, i like the contrast of the green, white and blue (not cold colors for me). It's not just a picture with a cat. I love it!, and knowing that now she is so different and I'm not with her, and at that moment I thought in leave her in adoption...But well it's about the photo isn't?

I'd think if it were a picture of mine or not, if it were a pet of mine or not. The picture would be perfect by all means. =)

Career-related Website

Ok
My career-related website is just ''Aula Digital'' (digital class)
http://www.u-cursos.cl/
It's not really directly related with my career, but by now, I use it most of the time to download all the material that the teachers upload. Often this things are the power point presentation of the class, or some essential book to study and sometimes are the homeworks and the marks!!!
It's kind of stressful knowing that i have to come home and realize that i have something to do or a bad mark to know.
So i don't have so much love to that page, but I admit that is very useful!
I found the site coz the university told me about it and I think it's a very good idea, i knew it before in the summer school :D
I use the site everyday coz it's very important to do it. If i didn't it I'd be so lost in the class!
It's a thing of life or dead that's why I like it, yeah finally i like it coz it helps me a lot.

And I know... every of you use it too :D

My favourite piece of technology

My Notebook is one of the most important material things that I have right now.

I could say my Cell Phone, Samsung U600 because it had everything that I needed but I lost it in the summer :(

You can say that the right name is laptop,but HP calls them notebook. So I got my PC from my mom and now is mine because I brought it with me at the beginning of the year to use it for the university.

So I use it to study and to listen and download music. And of course to chat and comunicate with my friends and family coz they are so far from me :( So it's so sad when they talk to me and I can't answer them coz i'm buzy...

But well I have the obligation to check my personal mail, the class mail, facebook and download the class material. Those things are the first one that I do as soon I arrive at home every day and practically it's on all the time.

I like it because is comfortable, modern and nice but is too weighty and the battery is damaged.

After all, with it, I can do anything I want because as I have little time I can look my favorite movies and TV series whenever I want or I can at this time. Without it, I really couldn't do anything. I can't be disconnected and honestly it's almost my only one distraction for this days. But i'm not an addict!

Me!

Hi I'm Yesica Sarmiento
I'm from Chile and I was born in La Serena, but since I was about seven years old I live in Ovalle.
My family is still there because now I'm living with my cousin in Santiago, Ñuñoa. I came over here to study Physical therapy in the Universidad de Chile, the best of the country.
I like medicals things, especially those that deal with the sport, because I love that too.
My favorite one is football soccer, now at days i'm training for the team of my school of the college. I have others interests too, such as movies, teather and music. Also I'm in the teather class and I play a little of guitar. Finally i like draw too .
My favourite animal is the cat because I have had them my whole life and that's why also I adore every feline's breed of the planet.
If you ask me what I don't like i wouldn't know exactly what to tell you but something that really bother me is the close mind people.
My experience with english has been only at the school, but i like it so much and I really would love travel and to practice english with people of everywhere of the world.

This Blog is for an english work but i'll try to use it for others interesting topics too. =)