Qualified Assistant Medical Officers with post basic training in Sports MedicineIn the quest for success and attempt to provide medical services to their athletes, mostly all states engage the services of physiotherapist, assistant medical officers and first aiders. Being curious as usual I surveyed some of the venues and notice the following:
- Good service and professionalism shown by assistant medical officers whom have done their post basic training in sports medicine. They clearly understand they requirement of the game, injuries associated with it and the prevention methods specific to sports. Most of them were pro active to the need of athletes. Bravo!!!
- Non qualified physiotherapist or imposter's as I call them were also spotted. Guess what! they cant even do a figure of eight strapping. Most of them as I found cheated the state authorities on their experience and qualification. All for some $$$ during semester break. The best part is they all hail from the same University. Probably the course professional ethics and standards was lectured in Russian.
- I was gifted enough to spot another miracle of a renowned foreign athletic coach turned part time physiotherapist and masseur for gymnastic girls. Hmmm, am I wrong or the immigration department should start paying occasional visits to check on their job specification. The one million dollar question is - Why are these imported guys always flock around our gymnastic girls? Think I'm bias, 'buka mata' and check out on masseurs and physio's attached to all the gymnastic teams including 'kebangsaan'. If we might argue that they are more specialised and experienced - think again it was an athletic coach in a gymnastic setting. Where is the ethics and most of all his he/she a certified practitioner for that spesific job?
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