“It’s quite hurtful to hear them say this but physiotherapy has always been a big part of my life.
When my mother was pregnant with me, my family took a drive across Malaysia, They didn’t stop and rest much. When they came back to Kuala Lumpur, my mother was admitted to the hospital and I was born a premature baby, at seven and-a-half months old.
I had to spend about three months in an incubator. In about the last month the physiotherapist came in to help me.
It is what I am learning as a physiotherapist student now, teaching the baby to lift the head for feeding, roll sideways, how to walk, how to sit in a baby chair…
Seeing my grandmother suffering from a stroke, and her perception towards physiotherapy gave me a stronger desire to be a physiotherapist.
Though she went for traditional Chinese medicine after she left the hospital, and when I try to give her treatment now she will say ‘I don’t trust physiotherapy’, I believe what helped her in the first place was the one-month physiotherapy treatment she received.” – Justin Kong
Story by Samantha Siow
Edited by Christine C
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(This post was first published on April 30th 2018)