Entries from Steady Footsteps tagged with 'physical therapy'
Re-Imagining Rehabilitation in Vietnam
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,...
The Ethics of Compassion
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...
Why We're Here (The Long Version)
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...
Going Home for Tet
As the Lunar New Year countdown reaches its final week, everybody in Vietnam is heading home for the holidays. Northbound buses, trains and flights out of Ho Chi Minh City are completely booked as students, factory workers and businessmen alike...
American Physical Therapist Runs Amok
Well, here’s something I didn’t see coming: I’m now doing speech therapy for Vietnamese patients. How strange is that? I’m not an Occupational Therapist, but I play one in Vietnam. Now, it appears that, by default, I’m playing Speech Therapist...
HELMETS IN THE NEWS
Two years ago, as we sat in a little restaurant in Da Nang, Vietnam, the proprietor walked up and offered us his sincere condolences on the unfolding tragedy in New Orleans. That’s how we learned about Hurricane Katrina. George Bush,...
One Week in Da Nang
This week, at the far western end of our street, where the newest bridge in Da Nang crosses the Han River, a mismatch between a motorcyclist and a truck resulted in the cyclist sailing over the rail and into the...
About Steady Footsteps
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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