AID FOR DISABLED
(BY
ROGER HENNING)
A pretty five-year-old girl is one of a group of hospital patients benefiting from an Australian-made electric whirlpool bath now in use at the Royal South Sydney Hospital’s rehabilitation centre.
The centre has two of the baths which stimulate circulatfon and have a gentle massaging effect. Sitting in one of the baths, little Maria Rotis smiled and frolicked as the water gurgled, bubbled and foamed round her.
Maria (above) suffers from Still’s disease, a juvenile form of rheumatoid arthritis, and has a knee affected by the ailment. Doctors and physiotherapists hope that her condition may improve with treatment, including regular bathing in the whirlpool bath. The physiotherapists in charge at the centre, Miss R. Corry, and a doctor both praise the Australian-made bath. The idea for it came from the United States. Miss Corry raid: “The equipment circulates air through the whirling water. The patients seem to like the treatment and we find it is useful for easing painful joints and for amputees. After a dip In the bath we give patients exercises and we find we have quite a good deal of success.” One bath is big enough to take a submerged adult. A smaller version is used mainly for treating limbs.
Aden Sports Centre.—The first sports centre in South Arabia has been built at Aden at a cost of £ll,OOO. It has facilities for tennis, volleyball, basketball, cricket, football and athletics. Money for building the centre was provided jointly by the British Middle East Command Headquarters, the British Petroleum and Shell oil companies and the Aden Municipality.—Reuter.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31080, 8 June 1966, Page 10
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265AID FOR DISABLED Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31080, 8 June 1966, Page 10
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