Excel

1. Internship at Excel Rehab
& Sports
Kristen White
HLTH 4200

2. Introduction
 In the fall semester of 2016, I was given the opportunity
to intern at Excel Rehabilitation & Sports Enhancement
in Seneca, South Carolina.
 I went to the clinic three days per week for eight hours
each day and worked as a Clinical Aide. I performed
various duties including cleaning, assisting in therapy
sessions, and observing the physical therapists there.
 This presentation gives an overview of my awesome
experience at Excel.

3. Internship Site- Excel Rehab & Sports
 Excel is an outpatient clinic for physical, occupational, and
hand therapy.
 I worked in all departments, but my primary focus was to
learn about physical therapy.
 Excel treats all age groups, but PT focuses on general
orthopedics and sports injuries.
 Excel has three locations. They are in Clemson, Easley, and
Seneca. I interned in Seneca, which is their newest site,
which opened in 2015.

4. Mission Statements:
 “Patients and their families know Quality Care
when they experience it. It's a result of Great
People and Skills, and Excel has BOTH...There
Is a Difference”
 “Our hands-on care, delivered by licensed,
skilled and compassionate therapists, is
unmatched. At Excel Rehab & Sports, ‘Being
Our Best To Make You Better’ is a challenge we
accept daily – it is our Patient First Mission.”
 Goals are to Innovate, Educate, Perform, and
Heal

5. Picture of Excel in Seneca, SC

6. These are the awesome people I got to work with! We dressed
up like Superhero’s to honor Jacob Hall.

7. Daily Duties
 Bring patients back from waiting area and get them set
up on warm up equipment
 Clean all equipment, tables, and machines after use
 Do laundry several times per day (towels & pillowcases)
 Assist therapists with patient exercises
 Set patients up on E-Stim machine
 Put hot and ice packs on patients

8. Here I am setting a patient up on the NuStep warm up machine.
Patients warm up for six minutes.

9. In this picture, I am setting up a patient on the E-Stim machine
and “crossing their shoulder”.

10. Here I am setting up an exercise for a patient.

11. Here I am putting a hot pack on a patient.

12. Here I am setting up a patient on the SciFit warm up machine.

13. Here I am cleaning the patient bed after use. I also change the
pillowcase.

14. Project
 I did an in-depth case study of a patient at Excel during
my time there.
 I chose to investigate a patient who recently had his
Achilles tendon repaired. I chose this because I thought
it was different and interesting and because this patient
started coming to therapy right when I started my
internship. I got to know this patient well and was really
familiar with his case.
 In order to complete this study, I observed treatment
sessions, collected notes, and did research on Achilles
tendon repairs. I then wrote a report about what I
learned and how the patient progressed through
therapy.

15. Conclusion
 This internship was an awesome experience for me. I
learned so much about what it is like to be a physical
therapist in an outpatient orthopedic setting. My
favorite part of my internship was the relationships I got
to build with the patients and seeing them make
progress.
 This internship helped solidify my decision to go into
physical therapy. I can see myself coming back to work
at Excel as a PT one day!
 Because of the success of my internship I am now
working there as a paid aide for the rest of the school
year.