April 20, 2009

Home BBQ ^-^

Last weekend, my bros decide to have BBQ at home instead of mom's cooking....
So we went shopping for our bbq in the morn....we've bought some sausages, chicken wings, sweet potatoes, prawns, corns and also packet otak-otak...
In additional to it, mom made some eng sandwiches in case those ingredient for bbq are not enough....
Well, the weather is super hot here...i guess we've made the wrong choice bbq-ing in this kind of weather...During the bbq, it felt like we are in the sauna...haha...sweat a lot...but enjoy the fun...
Here are sum photos of our delicious food...hehe....

Emergency Reponse Unit (ERU team)

Y'day was the launching of Statewide 24 hours of Ambulance Service and Formation of Emergency Response Unit at KPS area HQ...Many officers from the national, state and area level came to our area HQ to witness this big event...

Emergency Response Unit is also called ERU...This team will be called out for duty whenever thr's disaster or emergency cases happen...ERU is form in almost every state by St John Ambulans Malaysia...

Y'day was the day where Selangor state St John form this unit...this unit is the combination of members from several areas in Selangor state...To join the team is easy but to participate in all the trainings will be a tough thg to do...


ERU team of SJAM-KPS

Next we will start our trainings with bomba and also attachments in the several hosp in Selangor...This is whr the tough part begins...

April 15, 2009

Our Malacca Physiotherapy Dept

The dept is divided into few rooms :

a) Electro
b) Gym
c) Hand
d) Woman's Health
e) Cardio-Respiratory
f) Hydrotherapy


Cool huh? Has signboard for every room..hehe...

Eletro room basically treats spine and shoulder problems...
In electro, we can see many patients which has frozen shoulder, shoulder impingement, PID, spondylolisthesis, spondylosis and etc...
Patients coming into this room usually do hot pack, traction, infra red, ultra sound and also exercises taught by the physiotherapist there..



This is the electro room..its the biggest among all rooms in the physio dept

Next will be GYM...
There are many many exercise machine in the gym...Gym focus more on the lower limb which is the leg...People who are suffering from lower limb prob will usually come to the gym...Most patient who come to the gym suffers from plantar fascitis, OA knee, RA, post-op and etc....these are the most common conditions can be seen in the gym....







The hand room is kinda small and packed...
Luckily the number of patients in the room are not many...haha...if not, the room will be like "PASAR"...hehe...
Patients coming in here usually suffers from trigger finger, carpal tunnel syndrome, golfer's elbow, tennis's elbow, colles's fracture and etc...
The most common treatment seen in the hand room will be WAX...hehe...
Most of the patient know what they must do...
1st : Wash their hands and dry them
2nd : Dip the injured part into the wax a few times
3rd : wrap the part with plastic bag n cloth
The patients are even better than us students...haha...

The other rooms in the dept are also small room...I've never been in the woman health's room...so i do not not the treatment and also cases seen in there....as for the cardio-respiratory room, it is actually our discussion room...students will have discussion with the physio every morn before we start our work...
About the hydrotherapy room, it is under construction...so i don't have the chance to see it being use....but anyway, i noe wat is a hydrotherapy room look like now...hehe....

Back from 2nd Clinical Posting

Finally back home after completing my clinical posting in Malacca GH...


This is our beloved Hospital Melaka



During these 1 month, i've learn many many thgs and seen many many different types of condition which happened in real life...
It has been a wonderful experience working with all the staffs and students from other colleges in the physio dept there...
They are all very friendly and kind to us throughout our posting there....
We have a lot of fun working together and playing with the patients there...
The patients in the hosp are all willing to share and friendly....
Whatever we ask, they'll explain to us...


In Malacca, we've seen many people suffering from Osteoarthritis(OA) knee...so most of the patients who come will landed up in gym as all the treatment is done in gym...
There are also many trigger finger and carpal tunnel syndrome cases...
Mostly affected teachers many due to prolong writing on the whiteboard...hehe...
In the wards we can see many MVA cases in Malacca....mostly involving motorcyclist and car drivers...but the person who injured the most will be the motorcyclist...
There are many young teenagers who are involve in these accident...
It is sad to see young children being knock down from the bike and fracture their leg...
Now they are in the hosp with either external fixator, on POP or etc....


This is eg of an external fixator on a fracture tibia/fibula
We kinda miss the dept staffs and also the patients there...really have a great time there altho we did not have a good start...as days passed, we kinda enjoy ourselves with the patients and also people working in the dept...
If there's any chance, i dun mind going back to this hosp for clinical placement...opss..hehehe....

April 02, 2009

3 assignments!!!

OH MY GOD!!!
i ony have 3 weeks left til my assignment due date....
and now i hvn even started any of it....
each assignment i ony touch a bit here n thr....
not really complete....
now havin posting...come back frm hosp aso tired ady....
do the assignment aso not wif full concentration....
how??

Day 18 in Malacca GH posting

Date : 2/04/2009
Venue : Malacca GH

Today one of our lecturer came down Malacca to see how all of us in Malacca is doing....
Mr Muthu went to each hosp whr we were place to visit us n c how are we doin thr....
We never got the chance to talk to him much as he was rushing to other hosps whr my other coursemates are thr...

It has been a great experience here as i've seen many WEIRD patients in this hosp...
Thr was a young lady...how do i describe her?? hmmm...as wat her carer says she has low IQ...so she catch thgs slower than others...
So here's d catch....we've to ask here some Qs as we nid to do assessment on her...
It looks lik it is a great challenge to communicate wif this patient....
watever we tell her she seems to stare at us ony...we gotta do some sign language, repeat a few time and do it again n again for her to c for her to finally understand wat we are trying to explain/tell her...haiz....great challenge to communicate tis way...haha...

A szisophrenia pt has walk into the dept....
Every1 to her is suspicious...she's scare n low self confident....she kept looking down on the flr as she walk as if many tiny creatures on the flr n she dint wanna crush dem...
She also has a very weird gait pattern...sumthg lik shuffling gait but it is not...dunno wat is it called...
When ever u tok to her, she dun ans u neither look at u....
Ony 1 physio thr can communicate wif her....

Thr's another pt...a 70+ pt who fell frm the roof of his hse...
wondering what he was doing on the roof??
Well, he was repairing his tank on the roof and he slip and fell...
He was admitted into XXX hosp as he has fracture his patella...
Now he is suffering frm many sickness...imagine juz a patella fracture and now havin so many probs...lungs, liver, kidney, diabetes, HPT...haiz...wat a pity....
He juz came out frm d ward recently as he suffer frm many complication after the patella fracture surgery...
Imagine a healthy old man now havin so many probs wif his health....it will be a diff thg for him to accept...he use to do tai chi every morn, a person who has no sickness altho he's already 70+..
but now....
He's legs are very weak...he's unable to stand up frm sitting to standing..he usually nid help on tat...but he is very motivated when he manage to sit to stand independently after our physio tot him the actual technique to perform the task...now he's looking forward to walk independently...haha...wat a great achievement for this uncle....

Thr are many more motivating stories saw in the physiotherapy dept of this hosp itself...
Shall cont the story later....