On my last day at the Military Hospital, I took some pictures in the hydrotherapy area that are probably only interesting to people in the PT/med professions. Are those reciprocal arm pulleys in the pool? Yep. Interesting.
They have several private rooms with whirlpools (a blast from the past in today's U.S. medical world, Lexington Hospital just had theirs taken out to make private spaces for the women's health program. They haven't used the whirlpools in years). I was surprised to see this Hubbard tank too.
Jacqui (the therapist I've been working with, on the left) treats a patient with a spinal cord injury with the help of a PT student. And other than not being raised and lowered automatically, these parallel bars are similar to those used in the U.S. This patient lost his leg in a military conflict with Columbia.
These stairs are similar to what you'd find at a U.S. rehab clinic but are only large enough for ambulation training, not large enough for wheel chair training. This circle moves around and around with the handle pictured at the bottom, shoulder rehab anyone?
What you don't see at this hospital: computers. Or anything electronic (other than electrotherapy). Beds are not changed between patients or even at the end of the day as far as I can tell, but this isn't so bad in PT, just really different from the U.S.
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