Stroke booklet for patients in SESOTHO
This booklet is in SESOTHO, and is intended for patients and family members… to help them cope with the situation. Download stroke booklet here, PDF
Pelvic floor training tutorial
Pelvic floor training Click on the link to download the PDF: Pelvic floor training for patients and village health workers PDF Pelvic floor gymnastics for health personnel PDF
Village health worker reference booklet
A booklet for all the village health workers who have followed the workshops with Thuso, Wolfgang Fasser. Download the booklet in English: VHW Booklet in english, PDF Download the booklet in Sesotho: VHW Booklet in SESOTHO, PDF
Cough, garlic, onion, ginger
Basic reference manual
Basic reference manual
travelling miles and miles in Lesotho
Postural drainage
Positions for Postural Drainage – Adult Positions for Postural Drainage – Child
Edema treatment
How to edema arms How to edema legs How to edema neck
Arthritis patients instructions in Sesotho
Mokhoa oa ho itlhokomela ho bakuli ba nang le bothata ba manonyeletso ba nako e telele. Bala litaelo me o ithute hore na lika o thusa joang?
HowTo produce medicinal oils in Sesotho
Mokhoa oa ho etsa meriana ea mafura Ho sebetsaneng le masapo le mesifa re ka fumana melemo e mengata joaloka tsebo ka meriana tlhaho, hohle moo e sebetsang, lipetlele, cliniking kapa metseng. Meriana le litlotso tsa maro li sebelisoa kamehla. Haho thata ho iketsetsa meriana ena kapa tsona litlolo tsena. Fumana mekhoa ea ho etsa meriana. Mokhoa : Semela +…
Thobhea – Comfrey in Sesotho
Thobea – COMFREY Litaba tsa bohlokoa ka setlama sena se tloaelehileng. Lebitso le tloaelehileng: Comfrey (knitbone, boneset) Lebitso le loketseng: Symphytum officinale Tlhaloso Comfrey ke setlama se holang haholo se nang le makhasi a boea a holang bophara ba 12 ho isa 18 bolele (30 ho isa 45cm), setlama sena se setle haholo ka shebahalo se…
Garlic – Ginger Syrup in Sesotho
Garlic-moriana oa khemere, kapa oa sefuba Moriana o bonolo oka sebelisoang bakeng sa ho khohlela le ha motho ana le `metso Nka Lebekere le leng la metsi a belisitsoeng Lebekere le leng la lemon juice Lebekere le leng la mahe a linotsi Kopanya le garlic e kabetsoeng hasesanyane haholo le khaba e nyane ea khemere e phoofo Kopanya garlic, khemere…
Infomail August 2014
Dear friends We would like to inform you, that we have prepared a new website for Physiotherapy in Lesotho. It is resource based with useful information, audio lectures and videos. Teaching activities in various hospitals during the months of December and January are also a part of our new website. Please feel free to roam this new site: www.physioinlesotho.ch and…
Newsletter 1
Paray Physiotherapy Study Group Lumelang bo mme le bo ntate How are you? I hope for all of you life is going well. How did you reenter your hospital work after the workshop? How is your Physio going? Myself I am back home in Italy. I had a safe journey and my work started peacefully. Aussi Meret had a good…
Newsletter 2
Paray Physiotherapy Study Group Lumelang bo Mme le bo Ntate How are you? We hope you are fine and life is well. I met the other day with Ausi Itumeleing and we were remembering warmly the wonderful study days with you at Paray. We are fine. Ausi Itumeleing is busy with her physiotherapy work in the big hospital near…
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…
Newsletter 4
Dear Friends Newsletter 4 Paray Physiotherapy Study Group With pleasure I present you the 4th newsletter. This time I focus on three topics and include material which can be useful in our everyday work. In our last national workshop in physiotherapy held in December 2009 we worked a lot on neurology. The fascinating topic of neurology is a task for…
Newsletter 5
Dear Friends Newsletter 5 Paray Physiotherapy Study Group With pleasure I present you the 5th newsletter. This time I focus on three topics and include material which can be useful in our everyday work. During our study days we tackled a few times the topic of documentation. Essential questions are: What shall we document? How can we document this information?…
Newsletter 6
NEWSLETTER 6 Paray Physiotherapy Study Group Lumelang bo Mme le bo Ntate I am happy to send you newsletter N. 6. It was such a pleasure to be with some of you at last year’s physiotherapy workshop at Paray hospital. Even if we had a very rainy and cold weather, the spirit remained high. We are already preparing this year’s…
Newsletter 7, CP, Rosemary
PARAY MISSION HOSPITAL AND SCHOOL OF NURSING, Physiotherapy Department Lumelang bo Mme le bo Ntate It was such a pleasure to be with some of you at last years physiotherapy workshop at Paray hospital. It was a great time. We already are preparing this years workshop which will be held in December. If you have friends or colleagues who are…
Nettles
Nettles can help you, look at these videos:
Comfrey HowTo Videos
Sputum production
Howto Sputumproduction
Excercise teaching rules
Ten golden rules for successful teaching of exercises Organise the group actively, engage the class in its organisation / involve all members of the class Unite the group
respiratory treatment basic
Howto respiratory basic
Perception footbath
Howto perception footbath
Elbow mobilisation
Howto elbow mobilisation
Knee mobilisation
Howto knee mobilisation
Hemiplegia
Howto Hemiplegia LEFT Howto Hemiplegia RIGHT
Clubb feet child
Howto clubb feet child
Arthritis patients instructions
Chronic joint inflammation, instruction for patients Read some instructions and learn how to help yourself. Chronic joint inflammation needs regular medical attention and specific medicine, therefore go and see your doctor regularly. Follow the doctors advices in taking the medicine and discuss the benefits the drugs (medicine) have, during the following visit to your medical doctor. Anti-inflammatory medicine can irritate…
Ankle mobilisation child
Howto ankle mobilisation child
Ankle mobilisation adult
Howto ankle mobilisation adult
The “black stone”
Preparation of the ,,white stones“. 1. Make friends with your butcher! Take the middle third of a cow‘s thigh bone. Using a butcher‘s saw, saw it into pieces (size approx. 4cm x 1.5cm). 2. Remove the bone marrow. 3. Bring the pieces of bone to the boil in water.
Sage, Salvia in Sesotho
Lebitso le tloaelehileng Sage Tlhaloso Sage ke semela se makhasi holang bolele ba3-5cm a mathokoa ka ‘mala abile aboea. Lipalesa tsa teng li putsoa le pherese li hlaha hlabula kappa ka nako ea hoetla.sage e monko o matla sea babaka hanong.
Sage, Salvia officinalis
Common Name: Garden Sage, Common Sage Latin proper name: Salvia officinalis Sage is a perennial evergreen shrub and generally grows about 30 to 60 cm high, with wiry stems. The leaves are set in pairs on the stem, are about 3 to 5 centimeters long, rounded at the ends, greyish-green and softly hairy. The flowers are in whorls,
Rosemary in Sesotho
Lebitso le tloaelehileng, Rosemary Tlhaloso
Rosemary
Some useful information of a common herb Common name: Rosemary Proper name: Rosmarinus officinalis Description
Lengana, Artemisia afra in Sesotho
Boleng ba lengana Lengana ke setlama-tlama se monko o monate haholo se makhasi a mangata a bolele ba
Artemsia afra, Lengana
Some useful information of a common herb: Common name: African wormwood Proper name: Artemisia afra Sesotho name: Lengana Description
Polisa, wild fennel in Sesotho
Lebitso le tloaelehileng Polisa
Wild fennel, Polisa
Some useful information of a common herb: Common name: Wild Fennel Proper name: Foeniculum vulgare
Koena, wild mint in Sesotho
Lebitso le tloaelehileng: Koena Koena e monko o monate ebile e ea latsoeha e sebelisoa ka matlung a ho phela malapeng, hape e sebelisoa ele moriana. Hona le tse ling tse ngata tse melang moo ho leng mongobo.
Wild mint, Koena
Some useful information of a common herb: Common name: Wild Mint Proper name: Mentha longifolia
Bone healing with Symphytum in Sesotho
Re ka matlafatsa ho fola ha masapo a rona ka litlhare tsa tlholeho joang? Ka kakaretso mefuta e meraro ea lijo e bohlokoa. Letsatsi le lekaneng le motsamao oa ‘mele moo o sa amehang o ka thusa. Ha mmomo o robehileo ho hloka ho tiisoa hore o fole. Mokuli aka qala liexercises hang hang ha ngaka e lokolla hore boima…
Bone healing with Symphytum
How to improve bone healing with natural remedies There are some efficient remedies and herbal application to help broken bones to heal. Generally a balanced diet is important. Enough sunlight and movement of non affected parts will contribute as well. Some fractures like tibia shaft need compression to heal. As soon as the doctor allows partial weight bearing the patient…
Garlic – Ginger syrup
A simple and effective natural remedy against coughing and sore throat. Take:
Comfrey, Symphytum
Some useful information of a common herb Common name: Comfrey (knitbone, boneset) Proper name: Symphytum officinale
Medicinal oil
How to produce medicinal oils Working in physiotherapy or in rehabilitation we can benefit a lot from the knowledge of natural medicine. Wherever you work, in a hospital, health center or in a community based rehabilitation project, medicinal oils and ointments are for everyday use. Its not difficult to produce them. Following you find information about this topic.