For my internship, I spent a semester shadowing Dr. Ron
Nuttall who is a certified physical therapist as well as the athletic trainer
for all of the dance majors and members of the dance teams here at BYU. Ron intrigued me from the moment that I heard the way
other people talked about him. They say he is the master and has a miraculous
healing touch. I came to understand what everyone was talking about when I met
him and saw him work. He definitely has his own way of doing things that most
physical therapists don't apply. The effectiveness of his techniques was seen
in the progress of his patients.
What I liked most about Ron is that he is very much an on
hands sort of physical therapist. Most of today's physical therapists will
throw you into a machine and let it do all the work. Even though it saves the
physical therapists arms some exhaustion, it is not nearly as effective.
Despite most of my internship being observation, I still
learned a lot of things. I learned things like how to check alignment, correct
an up and down slip, massage and perform positional releases for knots and how
to properly heat and relax muscles through ultra sound and other techniques. It
was definitely a rare and worthwhile experience.
