Future plans
The following are some of the department’s future plans:
- Development of partnerships with regional sister training institutions to support the training and other departmental activities
- Capacity building for both Physiotherapy staff & clinical educators at various hospitals where students go for clinical education,
- Development of students’ elective exchange program through partnership to benefit students’ academic, cultural diversity and exposure,
- Development of Bridging/Honours degree program to benefit the current diploma graduates,
- Develop and maintain consultancy & research, particularly intervention research through which among other things more facilities & equipments may be obtained
Students along with supervisors in clinical placements
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Patient with external fixator, trained to take partial weight bearing with a walking frame. |
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A patient who had a surgery by Ilizarov technique being treated to mobilise her lower limb joints. |
Treatment of a child with Cerebral Palsy by using Therapeutic Ball. This reinforces the postural muscles and hence initiate proper postural control.
Standing frame for training erect posture.
This kind of supported weight bearing will stimulate proprioceptors and in turn stimulate the muscles.
