One Year. One Physical Therapist in Trujillo, Peru.

Combining passions of global public health with travel and cultural immersion... With the help of the Catholic Medical Mission Board, I was afforded the opportunity to live outside of Trujillo, Peru for one year's time (2010-2011). Check out old posts about my experiences as a PT working in hospitals, a school, an outpatient clinic, doing research/community based rehabilitation, and a little teaching too. And my experiences with an entire calendar year of holidays, cultural customs and new culinary experiences!

I make it back about once a year with university students/CMMB projects, so I will periodically provide updates :)

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Third Annual Conference!

2013 Conference leaders: Melanie Mae, Emily Redd, Ana Herrera and Nancy Mulligan
 On August 10-11, 2013, CMMB partnering with Regis University put on the 3rd annual rehabilitation continuing education event in Trujillo, Peru ("Tercera Conferencia de Actualización en Rehabilitación: Avances en Terapia de Lenguaje y Lumbalgia").

Ana Herrera
Similar to past years, we included a format of both lectures and labs/hands-on practice, provided resources for documentation/home exercises, included a social networking luncheon, and utilized actual patients in practice sessions. 

Melanie Mae with translator David Mercedes
Emily Redd
We were fortunate to expand our scope this year to include a track specific to speech therapy, led by Emily Redd and Melanie Mae, who did an awesome job!

Nancy Mulligan demonstrates a lumbar manipulation
Regis DPT students assisted with the labs in the group focusing on low back pain, led by Peruvian Ana Herrera and Regis faculty Nancy Mulligan.  The low back pain group focused on teaching the classification-based approach to patient management, and it was exciting to see an engaged group willing to practice hands on techniques with manual therapy, directional preference exercises, and core stabilization.
Lab Session with low back pain group
We continue to learn more and more each year and have decided to modify the model for the future. While continuing education is extremely valuable and needed in northern Peru, we hope to plan an event with the local PT school, Univ. ALAS Peruanas, focusing more on the training/collaboration with local faculty in efforts to build on sustainability and widen the collaboration/spread of knowledge in the years to come.
the always eventful transportation of "colchonetas" for labs :)

networking luncheon
A special thanks to CMMB and Regis for the continued support, especially Claudia Llantén, Heather Platter, Nancy Mulligan, Ana Herrera, Emily Redd, Melanie Mae, Megan Haas, Rachel Neiman, Danielle Dominguez, Shekema McCarthy, Leslie Padget, and Ruchi Bagrodia! Y Muchisimas Gracias a Maria Roldan, David Mercedes, Cristina Barrientos, Fernando Arana Rios y Maria Ysabel Lopez por TODO!
volunteer appreciation dinner

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