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Newsletter 3

Paray Physio Study Group

Lumelang bo Mme le bo Ntate
Dear Physiofriends

Time is flying and we are approaching soon our next get-together. I am glad to inform you that this years physiotherapy workshop will be held from the 13th - 18th of December at Paray in Thaba Tseka. We will be kindly hosted and generously supported by Paraymission Hospital and Paraymission Nursingschool. In the refreshing climate and in the beauty of the Thaba Tseka mountain area we will share and learn more about the fascinating physiotherapy experience. Beside me, Mrs. Therese Schär, a qualified and clinically well experienced senior physiotherapist, will contribute to the teaching.

The main topics of this years workshop are:

• Assessment and treatment of common clinical conditions
• A new and fresh approach of TB physiotherapy
• Neuro rehabilitation
• Natural remedies in physiotherapy

We will be able to offer you a learning setting for beginners and advanced physiotherapists. This allows us to be in the same workshop, as learning together is growing together. You will soon receive all the details and the application form.

In last years workshop we practised among many other technics the shepherds footbath. This nice and comfortable treatment we call in physiotherapy terms "perception footbath". It’s helpful for relaxation, stimulation of perception and peripheral blood circulation. Its use is only limited by open wounds, infections or other defects of the skin. At my place I adapted the program culturally and I named it the grandmothers footbath. The grandmother of my mother was a traditional healer, she was well experienced with herbs, curing with water, symbolic treatments and prayer. She taught this treatment to my mother and I had the chance to learn it.

Here’s the European version of the shepherds footbath:

"The grandmothers footbath"

This is a wonderful treatment which can be enjoyed together:
Take a basin with warm water and put it on a large towel. Now ask your patient – who is sitting very comfortably on a chair – to dip her feet into the basin. A handful of fine-granular salt should be kept ready in a flat bowl as well as a soap and a fragrant massage oil. Now you are ready to start:

1. Take one foot out of the basin and soap it delightfully. Afterwards return it into the warm water.
2. Do the same with the other foot.
3. Take again the first foot out of the water, shake it gently and dab it lightly with a dry towel. Now you rub it with fine-granular salt. Take enough salt and rub the whole foot, also between the toes. Take your time and enjoy it. Then dip the foot again very slowly in the warm water. Take enough time so the receiving person feels this interesting transition stage.
4. Do the same with the other foot.
5. Take the first foot out of the water and dry it carefully. Now massage it entirely and intensely with the oil. Finish the foot massage with some strokes up to the knee and downwards again. Put a sock on the foot so that it keeps warm.
6. Now you can start doing the same with the other foot.

The treatment can go along with music and singing which should preceived positively by the receiving person. It’s thought to be music only in the back ground so that the silence or any conversation between you and the receiving person is always well audible. Grandma`s footbath can last up to 45 minutes. Therefore the water should be well-tempered in the beginning.

I wish you much pleasure in learning and supplying this enjoyable treatment. It’s easy to perform, in almost every place to realise and it needs only common objects. It can be successfully taught to family members, used for the homebased physiotherapy and for selfcare.

I am looking forward to our get-together in Lesotho in the period of 2nd December 2009 - 14th January 2010.

Until then you can contact me if you like by sms:
0041 79 512 78 21
0039 320 352 71 14
or by email: info@wolfgangfasser.ch

Have a good time and God bless you and your family,

Salang hantle
Thuso W. Fasser





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