Reviews

One piece of advice I would give to students considering an overseas elective is –don’t hold back!

Catheters were reused as tourniquets, because the Nepalese people do not waste what is available

The majority of patients we saw were stroke victims and a lot of these patients had been coming to physio for years, so had really built up a rapport with everyone working there.

I was given the opportunity to experience children with cerebral palsy, with a fantastic team of physios

Not only did I see exacerbations of conditions that are less prevalent in the UK, such as malaria and HIV, but I also had an insight into how UK conditions such as CVA's and UTI's are treated in a developing country.