Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Attachment, Day 2

Today's all physiotherapy, where patients are allowed to exercise within their limits to prevent their muscles from going weak due to being bedridden for a long time.

Did make a few interesting observations. Having been in a clinical attachment before, I can say that the general physiotherapists who aren't managing much exercise equipment work similar to clinical doctors.

With general physiotherapy done we took a look at some of the more specific physiotherapists - orthological physiotherapists (dealing with leg/hip injury patients) and neurological physiotherapists (dealing with anything that has hit the nerves). These people tend to go around and visit wards, as the patients normally are unable to move very far considering their conditions.

Got to see an EEG (a machine that reads brainwaves) in operation too. It's a little hard to understand the readings, but it's rather simple to get the big picture considering what the patient does and how the diagrams show it.

...That's more or less about it. Physiotherapy is quite dry, particularly when you've been exposed to it yourself prior to being discharged.

Tomorrow's going to be a busy day. Lots of different things scheduled.

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