While health care technology has rocketed into the 21st century in Vietnam, with cardiac bypass surgery, total hip replacements and in-vitro fertilization available now to those who can afford it, physical rehabilitation remains mired somewhere in the 1950s. I, myself,...
This article appeared in the most recent issue of Dispatches,The Newsletter of the International Health Division, Canadian Physiotherapy Association. The Ethics of Compassion By Virginia Lockett, PT President, Steady Footsteps, Inc. compassion n. Deep awareness of the suffering of another...
The seed of the idea that eventually became “Steady Footsteps” was planted in a little house in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in 1995. My husband Dave and I had come to Vietnam to adopt two children and, while we were treading...
STEADY FOOTSTEPS, INC. was founded by an American couple: Virginia Lockett, a Quaker physical therapist, and her husband David, who is Buddhist. David and Virginia first came to Vietnam in 1995 to adopt two children. They were saddened, at that...
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