With vacation and traveling to different places every 3 or 4 days, I've been pretty bad about keeping up with all the events going on in Cameroon. When I came back from vacation, I decided to stay in the Douala area and do 2 supervisory visits to Mutegene and Mboppit Baptist hosptial that have PT staff there. These PTs have many patients with very little space to treat them in. We would see all of the patients together and go over treatments, evaluation tests, and go over back evaluation/exercises.
One of the things I did in Douala besides work at Mboppi was do a 4 day seminar to a physical therapy class at one of the universities. I was pretty nervous beforehand because I had no idea what to expect, Douala is in the French speaking part and I had no idea if they would even understand me, and communication was not the best beforehand and I didn't know where I was staying or how the program would go. Needless to say, God was with me the whole time and it went so much better than how I thought it would go. I did morning classes with just the PT students and focused on rehabilitation for children, especially children with Cerebral Palsy. I also did evening classes that were open to everyone that focused on basic things like transfers, bed sores, and what PT exactly is. The picture above is of the PT students at the university and me during a break in lecture.
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