It was a rather busy day. We removed the plaster from the cast. Did some adjustments to the cast so as to take into account the prominent parts of the lower limb that are mostly in contact with the AFO. Later we made a tour of the Hospital. It was great learning about acupuncture and it was very interesting watching as the doctor administered it. I really love the way they combine both the traditional and western medicines in a very efficient way. We got also t...

Tested our orthosis on our patients and based on the results we refined the AFOs to fit the patient. Our patient was very jovial and usually happy despite having had stroke twice. It was great to see kids use the AFOs to move happily. But I felt broken hearted when some of the AFOs did not work as expected. Though there is no one to blame since I know just like in hospitals some medication work for some people and fail on others I really felt for the few patients...

We finished making the orthosis by cutting in to the required shape and breaking it from the cast. We also smoothened the orthosis, which wasn't as easy as I thought. It was great learning the various techniques. I might have had jetlag since I woke up at 3a.m and felt very sleepy at around 5p.m. After the walk from the hotel I ended up taking a one-hour nap. We then proceeded to have dinner in KFC, which was a great bonding session. The day was however made th...

We went to the school for children suffering from various disabilities where we met our patients. Each group had 5 cases and each case had 2 case managers. My partner was Natalie a second year student from Hong Kong Polytechnic. I found her adorable and very passionate about helping other people especially when it came to communicating to the rest what was happening since most of the conversations were done in Cantonese. We made a model for the AFO of our patie...