About my injury ....

This is my CT scan from early 2011.
After have an x-ray by my mothers chiropractor he discovered that I had something wrong with it. This made him seriously worry about it. My mum then contacted the doctor and asked them to have a look at the x-ray that he did and see if they could give us an answer. The doctors told me that there wasn't anything wrong with me and that the best thing i could do to stop the pain was excersise. I carried on with the excercise and the pain just got worse so my mum contacted them again and I went to see them again. The only thing they had to say was that it will get worse before it gets better.
A few weeks went by and I was in silly amounts of pain. My mum contacted Bupa, a private health care, and made an appointment with a back specialist. When I went to see the specialist he assessed me and my hip flexis and the muscles in my bum, back and core and felt my spine. I was unable to do things such as touch my toes, I couldn't get past my knees without being in pain. The consultant then said that he wanted me to have scans, so I had more x-rays and he wasn't happy with them as you couldn't see my spine very clear. I then went for an MRI scan. This gave a more clear image and we where able to see what was wrong but just to double check I had a CT scan and more x-ray's. The CT scan (image above) gave the best image and showed clearly what was wrong with my spine. The consultant then confirmed to me that I had Spondylolisthesis and Spondylosis.


My physiotherapist said that I need to work on building the muscles within my core, bum and back to be able to hold myself correctly as my posture isn't correct. This is due to my hips having rotated forward and also because i stand in a certain way to stop me from getting any pain within my back.



What is Spondylolisthesis?
Spondylolisthesis is where one of your vertebrate has moved and has caused a step within your spine. As you can see from my scan above, the vertebrate at the top of my spine are all inline but the one at the bottom (the one circled) is out of place (moved away from my spinal cord) and has created a step within the curve in my back.

What is Spondylosis?
Spondylosis, also known as a stress fracture is where there is a fracture in one of the vertebrate within your spine. In my case it is in my lower spine, also known as Lumbar Spondylosis. This can be caused by certain sports activities, lifting heavy stuff too often, age, an accident, or maybe something that somebody was born with. It occures when you put too much pressure on a certain part of your spine too much. This stops you from being able to sit or stand for long periods of time because it causes you to be in pain.

Questionnaire Results

From looking at my results I can see that more females than males have answered my questionnaire. As it is only two more people this wont effect my results. I can also see that the people who answered this where mostly between the ages of 21 and 35, closely followed by 16-20. This is a good age group as the target audience for BBC 3 are between the ages of 16 and 34.

19 people have said yes they would watch my documentary and only 3 have said no. From analysing my results in closer detail I found out that 2 males and 1 female had said no. All 3 of these people did not watch BBC 3 and where between the ages of 21-35. This has not effected my results and decision on making the documentary due to it only being 3 people. They may have said no due to a number of reasons. I believe that some of these reasons are that they are not interested in pole fitness and would find it boring, they don’t have an understanding of what it is, or maybe because they don’t watch BBC 3 .

Treatment

Journey through treatment

This is my scan  of where my back is injured

The drip I had to have put in my hand for local anaesthetic so that I wouldn't be able to feel the needles I had. I had to have a steroid injection in one side of my back and on the other side I had a pain killer injection. I got told by consultant that these injections may ware off within 6 weeks and that I would be in pain again. Out of every 10 people that have this treatment, my consultant said that it only seems to work for 1 maybe 2 people. Luckily I was one of them people that it had worked for. I did have the offer to have an operation but there was a massive risk of things going wrong due to it being so close to my spinal cord. I also got told by him that I would need to do physio therapy along side to build up the strength within my core, lower back and bum. When I saw my physiotherapist he told me that I need to work a lot on my hips as my hips had rotated forward. We had to try and correct them before we could start building up that strenght. after roughly about 5-6 months, nothing was changing in my hips so we had to give up on that and just work on building up my strength. After roughly a year of doing physiotherapy I gave up doing it. I took up another form of excersise, pole fitness. Pole has given me more strength and has done a lot more for me than my physiotherapy ever did. Physio seemed to be a long procsses of building my muscles up and I soon got bored of it. I believe that pole has done the best for me and is keeping me out of pain. I still need to work on rotating my hips back though.

This is the marks of where I had the injections.

Where on my back the injections got put. 

After coming out of theatre. 

Documentary Modes

The Expository or Griersonian Mode

Griersonian mode is a documentary mode with a voice over. It leaves you no room to have an opinion and tells you how to view the film.

Cinema Verite

Within cinema verite documentaries you are able to see and hear the director. There can also sometimes be a voice over which will be the directors voice. It is always the directors opinion given but you are able to argue against them. This type of documentary gives the documentary a more balanced argument.

Direct Cinema

A direct cinema documentary has no voice over and you are unable to see the director. This allows you to have your own opinion and argument and also to be able to view the film how you want to.

My approach

I will be taking the approach of cinema verite as I believe it gives a more balanced view on what somebody is saying and that they are not being pressured or hinted into saying something. Also I will be within the documentary and you will be able to hear and see me so therefor I am limited to only being able to use the style of cinema verite. 

Risk Assessment

I had to create 4 risk assessments, this being one of them. I had to do 4 due to filming in 4 places. If I hadn't had done the risk assessments I wouldn't have been able to film in the 4 locations that i want to film in.

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