Lovely Faces with Smiles in all the Right Places

I have been taking a lot of pictures of my patients recently, I wanted to post some here so that you can see who I have been working with lately. This is my last week in Umtata, I will be home by next friday!

two female spinal ward patients, I think they both are TB spine patients

another Female Ward patient with an external fixator to her right ankle

a Female Ward Patient with an external fixator secondary to severe trauma to her right leg

Mizwandile, my patient with ankylosing spondylitis

Siboleke and Mancwa

Tebogo playing catch with two young spinal injury boys to increase their core strength

This old man is so stubborn, but Tebogo and I got him to stand and even to smile!

Syobonga, this boy wasn’t able to sit up independently the first time I saw him, now he is a walking fiend

Nolinda, doing some manual stretching in the physio gym

My PT partner in crime, Tebogo, with “Angel” in the standing frame

Winiwe, after a successful wheelchair to treatment table transfer

My buddy Phil, he is a riot!

one of the Female Ward patients, showing off her new post-surgical “caliper”

Sipunzie, walking with backslabs

Viyogazi, walking with a walking frame and backslabs, she no longer needs the backslabs to walk

Nolinda, puting “backslabs” on Thulani so that he can walk

Zukisani, standing for the first time in rehab with me and Nolinda, a PTA

This boy is from Ethiopia, he was hospitalized for several weeks with a DVT

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