An Occupational Therapist's Life

Yesterday we had an excursion in the Occupational Therapy department. Lots of gadgets, lots of toys, lots of fun. Here's a simple narration on what we had done.

This so call xxxxxx-therapy machine (can't remember the name) is simply gorgeous. Slip your arm into it, and you'll feel the heat waves turbulencing around your arm. Actually there's bits and pieces of dry wood powder. They use this thingee to warm up your joints and ease up the pain in the arm. Hmm....

Next, we have this electrical muscle stimulator (on the right) which sends tolerable electrical impulses into your nerves and causes muscular contraction. Sounds dangerous but it's actually pretty safe... and thrilling. You can actually feel your muscle kinking and jerking, involuntarily!

Waxy fingers. You dip ya fingers into one hot cauldron of wax for 7 times, let the caramel-like wax engulf your hand, slip it into a warm bag and enjoy the heat! It's supposed to loosen up your stiffened joints with heat.

The girl in the pressure garment. Well. It's supposed to exert pressure on the scars so they won't grow haphazardly leaving you an ugly face.

Playing with splints. Thanks to Ms. Anna, the occupational therapist, who's on my left, for her patience and guidance, we manufactured our own splints. (Err... although they are a little bit cacat, but consider pass la). Well... the splints are all in pink! Not that we are having our pink fetish again, it's just that the material involved is in pink.

Poor Lalitha in her rigid collar neck splint. It actually made her look taller! ------------------->

<------ And Kia Sing with his extensor dynamic splint. Looks cool, eh?