Kolding Sygehus.

Last week of our practice we spend in Kolding. We were in physiotherapy and ergotherapy department in hospital.
We saw many patients with new knee and after hips replacement. We also joined to cardiology group ( people with bypass, hart attack etc.) I had a chance to work with patients after stroke (Stroke is my subject for ma final exam in Poland) and to see methods, which they use with this kind of patients. I was shocked when I was talking with one of apoplexy physiotherapist that they don't use special course to treat them, of course you can have some of them, but it's not necessary.
In Poland I spend almost whole my practice time in hospital, so for me this week was very interesting. I saw many different ways, how to treat patients. We have a chance to see how they're working here, how many patient they have a day, how much time they can spent with them.
They also invite us on Tuesday to see the knee operation on a big screen.
I really had a great time there.

AAbenraa!!

Fjordskolen- is a school for disable pupils. The school is divided for parts, every part has a pupils with different 'level' of disability.
Most of our time there we spend in Part B, which means than there are pupils, who can't move, can't speak. We saw a equipment for them, is very modern and every pupil has his own equipment. Most of them in Part B, has a birth damages or cerebral paralysis, so they really need a rehabilitation. One day we had a chance to see one lesson with pupils with Down Syndrome. There are 4 pupils and 2 specialized teachers and 1 therapist. They teach them by music and movement. They use special method, which call "Move".
We also had a chance to talk with physiotherapist ( one of them is from Poland ). We got a lot of information about physiotherapist's work.
I've never been in this kind of place, so for me it was a first time to work with children, and see their reaction.

Citizenship and globalisation

In this classes we were talking in groups about climate and the problems with climate changes. We agreed that the 'big story' about climate is not just about Europe but is about China ( a lot of problems are coming from China and Chinese industry, most of them, but not all) next subject was 9/11( terrorism etc.).

In another lessons we were talking about democracy ( that we have to fight for democracy), most of the time it was about ' democratic way of thinking', and what it's mean.

Special Needs

Something about Special Needs classes.

In this classes we were talking about children with special needs.
We presented our point of view about special nedds in our countries. Me, Anna and Joanna prepared about physiotherapy in Poland and about difficulties for disable people. We also had a chance to hear about school education for handicap pupils in Belgium, Spain, Norway, Turkey and Hungary.
For me it was very good expierence to get knowledge about this ind of people, because it is my part of job as a physiotherapist.

International Week

15th-19th of March!!!



One of the best weeks during my 'Erasmus trip' was International Week.
We've got visitors from Portugal,Spain, Belgium, Germany, Austria,Turkey.
On Monday we've got introduction to the week and in groups we were drawing 'stereotypes' about every country...(good to know, what the people from another country think about your own country)
On Tuesday we were doing a lunch box, the typical danish style sandwiches.
wensday was for presentation about our University. Thursday trip to Ribe. I would like to say thath this town is amazing, is small, but the Vikin's Museum and whol town is very interesting, and I really enjoyed the time there.! After that we were a Eurovision contest!!! hmm... the day was very busy, but everyone had energy for this contest! I want to say that Me and Joanna (POLAND) had 3 place with Hungary!
Friday was the day for release party, and farewell lunch.
And during this day Every group show a 'pocket movie' which we prepared during this week:)
My group ( Me, Cedric and Romain) prepared a movie about " Why Danes don't use Euro"
This is link for the movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVyejKfWVQo

Art lesson:)

I would like to say something about art lesson.
I haven't been on this kind of lessons since I was 15, so it was very funny to do this again after a few years.
From the beggining I want to say that the teacher was very friendly for us, she tried to use our imagination and I think she done this very good!
We had to draw our face from the mirror, after that we had to close eyes and draw again as a 'blind people'. If you want to do this properly you have to use representation of your face...it is quite difficult.
My idea how to use this kind of activities in my job is that I can work with children with behavioral and learning disorders.

3 days in Esbjerg:)

I would like to write something about my last 3 days ( by the way it was amazing!).

I spend them in Esbjerg ( about 100 km from Haderslev), exactly at University in Esbjerg. We took a part in a Module about back pain and manual technique to treat pain in back. We saw also acupuncture and we had a chance to put needle in body.
I really like it!
We had a chance to talk with Danish student, so now we know how everything is going here ( physiotherapy, education system, practice at school etc.)
There we practice a lot, our teacher try to explain everything in English, even the theory. The things from Manual technique we had already at school in Poland, but some of them was new for us!

I am very grateful that I've been there.

It was good experience for me to practice something new and to see how Danish teacher teach students here.

Stereotypes!

Why you can say that I'm Polish....?

- You can tell that I'm Polish because I eat a lot of potatoes for almost every dinner.

- You can tell that I'm Polish because I spend a lot of time outside during the spring and summer time.

- You can tell that I'm Polish because I can live everywhere in the world.

- You can tell that I'm Polish because I never refuse a drink.

- You can tell that I'm Polish because I'm hardworking and outgoing.

- You can tell that I'm Polish because I'm very close with my family.

- You can tell that I'm Polish because I used to go for a party every weekend.

What about Danish people??

Well, before I came here I was talking with my friends and family about Denmark and danish people, just to say in one word : about STEREOTYPES
Not all of them, which I heard are true, but some yes.
For example:
* Danish people are closed and they try to keep their privet life as a secret.

*Denmark is very expensive country.

I thought that Danish people ( students) like to go out, but when I came to Haderslev I realised that it's not true!
The second think is: I heard that Danish people are tall, blond with blue eyes like people from Norway, but it's also false.

What I discovered here is that the people from Denmark are like candles...I didn't know about that before.
I'm hoping to discover more things about Danish people and culture during this 3 months.

health and rehabilitation center

On 4th of February me, Anna and Joanna visited Kildebakken at Varbergvej 11. It's a kind of health and rehabilitation center.

I was very glad that I could see how people work in Denmark. In total it's almost everything different.

At the begining I want to say about atmosphere. In my country the way how you doing your job is very strict. You have a couple of patients (sometimes even more than 2-3) per 20-30 min and you have to care about them, or you have whole group just to exercise them during 30 min. Here physiotherapist hasn't more than 2 patients at the same time. It's easier, because you can focus on this kind of patient with this disease for whole time.

Next thing is that in Poland rehabilitation starts when you are in a hospital and it's very serious, in Denmark rehabilitation in hospital it's just a begining of rehabilitation ( small part of it), what's happen next is, when you are going out from hospital in my country you have to wait sometimes ( even 1-2 months) to take part in nex 'level' of rehabilitation, here you can go straight. The good thing in Poland is, that your rehabilitation is everyday during for examples 1 month ( the length is depend of kind of disease). In Denmark is just twice a week and in my opinion it's not enough.

The last thing which about I would like to say is equipment in this center!

It's not completly different than in Poland but some of them I saw first time.

In conclusion I want to say that in Denmark physiotherapist has a chance to use imagination, because you have possibility. Of course in Poland you can use your imagination, but it's harder to do this than here.

First day in Denmark

Hi Others!


I would like to tell you about my first day in Denmark!At the begining when I arrived I was shocked, because I thought that the winter in Denmark is not so hard like in Poland! This winter in my country was horrible, most of the time was -20 deegres and snow everywhere!I arrived with Anna on Sunday 31st of January.

Poland, fot. Jerzy Wozny

We were at 6 o'clock in the morning in the Busstation in Haderslev. Our rooms were ready at 5 o'clock p.m. so you can imagine how hard this day was.But now everything is all right!We are living with my friends from Poland Joanna and Anna and with Katka, Ondrej, Ester and Zeliha. House is wonderful ,very practical and what is the most important for us is very close to university!

I hope I will wonderful time during this 3 months!