18/07/2025
Well that was a busy week - full of inspiration and fun for the next generation!
“Inspiration week” started as early as 9am on Monday. I went into a local nursery to teach 4 year old children a bit about physiotherapy. From jumping in and out of a floor ladder to trialling paediatric crutches to putting together x-ray puzzles, it was a hands on experience for these little ones! The children were very enthusiastic and super cute!
Roll on to Thursday afternoon when I was asked to go in to a primary school to teach year 6 children about physiotherapy. It was less hands on and more educative for these older children. They now know what an osteoarthritic knee looks like on an x-ray, what a disc bulge looks like on MRI (I’m sorry I just couldn’t bring myself to use the words ‘slipped disc’), at what age the patella forms and where physios work. Seeing their faces literally wowed when they performed auscultation on their peers and heard each other’s heartbeat was really touching and certainly put a smile on my face and a dropped jaw on theirs!
I love my day to day job as no patient is the same and no day is the same. Being asked to teach both little children and big children about what physiotherapists do is also a wonderful part of my job. Who knows, perhaps out of the 50 children I stood in front of this week, perhaps at least one child has been inspired to do the job I love too!
