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Today marked our second
to last day in the clinic at Las Obras. It is hard to believe that we
arrived in Guatemala only six short days ago! Despite our fun and
exciting, but slightly exhausting weekend, we all
woke up bright and early to begin another full day of PT treatment in
the morning at Las Obras and community health efforts at a nearby
medical clinic later in the afternoon.
Sabina and Jessica
started the day off working in the nursery with children between 10
months and 8 years. They enjoyed treating some of the same patients they
had interacted with during the week prior, and were
pleasantly surprised to find that a few of the babies seemed to have
slightly progressed in a very short time since last being seen. Deidra
enjoyed another educational morning working with older adults. Gary
began his day working in orthopedics and met up with
Joe, Sabina, and Jess in pediatrics. It has been exciting to build on
our skills in each of these areas throughout our time here.
During our “break time”
at 10/10:30am, we had the opportunity to participate in a group dancing
session. It was exciting to see how happy all of the patients were to
get to listen to music and dance in a big
group. All of the individuals had the biggest smiles on their faces, and
we were amazed to see how much the activity motivated them to mueva!
During lunch, Jessica had the opportunity to present her Capstone
project to the physical therapists and physical therapy
students at Las Obras. Her presentation was on “Cardiovascular Health:
Assessment and Intervention for Patients with Physical and/or Cognitive
Disabilities,” and was well received by the therapists at Las Obras.
Jessica did her best to provide the therapists
with useful and appropriate assessment tools and intervention ideas that
the therapists may be able to incorporate into practice.
After a busy morning at
Las Obras, all of the students and the UNC leadership team headed to
the nearby town of Pastores where another health fair had been organized
for the afternoon. The students did a great
job communicating with patients – in Spanish, I might add – and offering
appropriate advice for nutrition, hand washing, blood pressure, back
pain, and baby care. Following an interesting afternoon of interacting
with community members who requested advice
on a variety of PT-related topics, we returned to Antigua for a little
bit of shopping. We rounded out our evening with more touristy photos
and a delicious dinner at Café Sky.
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| The Health Fair location, Clinicas Medicas, in Pastores. |
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| Acting the part of tourists - and realizing that we had "celebrities" in our midst! |
We are looking very much forward to our last full day in Antigua, Guatemala tomorrow!
Written By: Jessica Skeeter
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