Blog 20: Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question and answers?  What is your best answer and why?

What is the most effective treatment process for a torn ACL

1.The first step to an effective treatment process is to have an autograft surgery.

2.The best non-surgical treatment for a torn ACL is to have a stem-cell treatment

3.An effective treatment may be one with knee rehab

My best answer is my first answer because autograft is the treatment with the most success.  Stem cell treatment is new and not many people know about, and there is still things unknown about the treatment process.  Sometimes knee rehab alone is bad for the knee, because sometimes leaving the knee alone can cause future complications within the knee.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

It all first started when I tore my ACL.  By that time I already decided what my topic was and what it was going to be about, so I knew that I would have to get surgery.  The process of seeing whether or not my ACL was torn was long, but we eventually found out that it was torn.  They said that I could leave it alone, but not do anything really active, or I could have surgery done and return to my physical activities.  So I chose having surgery done on my knee, and with that I decided to look up surgery as a treatment for a torn ACL.  I didn't realize at the time that this was my best answer.  I only realized until I finally found my last two answers that I realized that my first answer was my best.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

Some problems that I faced were finding my second and third answers, and finding a source for esa.  For my second and third answer, Purther helped give me ideas on which I could expand upon, and I used google advanced search to help me look for a valid source for my esa.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?  

The two most significant sources that I used to answer my eq are my mentor Georgine Hernandez and the information that Kaiser gave me when I was receiving surgery.