FIFTH POST-POLIO CLINICAL PRACTICE - PENRITH WORKSHOP

Penrith RSL Club was the venue for the FIFTH Post Polio Clinical Practice Workshop, sponsored by District 9685 and Polio Australia, last Thursday, March 24.

 

Governor Gina Growden said she was pleased to see the Workshop happen – although numbers were slightly down to eleven health professionals from the Penrith area. “We are pleased to be sponsoring these Workshops with Polio Australia and believe that every event is worthwhile as we strive to being recognition to the need for an accepted course of treatment for the Late Effects of Polio Condition”, she added.

 

ARC Health’s leading authority and facilitator, Mel McConaghy, conducted the workshop and those present were mainly physiotherapists from Nepean District Hospital, a chiropractor and a couple of therapists. Two well versed Polio survivors in Merle Thompson from Lithgow and Ben Tipton from Mt Riverview add great value to the forum sessions.

 

Workshops have now been held at Ryde, St Leonards, Katoomba, North Rocks and Penrith. The Wyong Workshop scheduled for February 27 was cancelled and the very first event planned for November 19 at Brookvale has been rescheduled to Thursday, May 5, at Narrabeen. 

 

Further workshops are planned as follows –

 

All Rotarians and Rotary Club officers in these areas are requested to make contact with health professionals and urge them to attend the appropriate Workshop.