Physiotherapists provide Guatemala prosthetic care

Two physiotherapists are travelling to Central America to help people in need of prosthetic limbs.

Shannon Jordan and Kerys Chamberlain, from Guernsey, are travelling to Guatemala for 10 days to help rehabilitate people.

The pair will volunteer for the Range of Motion Project - an organisation founded in 2005 that provides life-changing prosthetic limbs, physical therapy, and psychological support to patients in both Guatemala and Ecuador.

Jordan and Chamberlain leave later in October and said they hoped to also improve lives for amputees in Guernsey on their return, by working with island charities.

Jordan said she wanted to help people live a full and active life, and the pair were seeing "what is available to them and what we can do to help".

Chamberlain said during the visit they would spend five days assisting people physically, getting them stronger and in a position where they could successful use a prosthetic limb.

She said they would visit patients previously helped by the organisation and see how the prosthetic limbs had "changed their quality of life".

The pair said they would work with technicians from America, which Chamberlain said would "be really interesting to see how our practice maybe differs and learn some new skills and tricks".

They said in people they would help had lost limbs for a variety of reasons including illness and accidents.

Back in Guernsey, Jordan said they were looking to work with charities to support them helping islanders "back to work or getting back to driving and kind of just being part of the community again post-discharge from hospital".

"Because there isn't actually anything here specifically for that."

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