Showing posts with label PrismGlasses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PrismGlasses. Show all posts

Thursday, February 11, 2010

ETPP Co-Founder brings Mirror Therapy techniques to Vietnam and Cambodia


The focus of a December 2009 trip to Vietnam and Cambodia for Moira Judith Mann, ETPP Co-Founder, was to present mirror therapy techniques,  prototype unbreakable plastic mirror systems, ETPP ToolKits translated into Vietnamese and Khmer and PrismGlasses to the Vietnamese Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists (VIETCOT) in Hanoi, PeaceTrees Vietnam, an NGO based in Dong Ha that services over 600 landmine victims, The Cambodian School of Prosthetics & Orthotics (CSPO), Kien Khleang National Rehabilitation Center in Phnom Penh, CHA, an NGO in Phnom Penh, as well as two designated ETPP representatives who will bring mirror therapy to hill tribe villages in the former DMZ, Quang Tri Province. 

The mirror therapy information and the use of non-breakable plastic mirrors were enthusiastically accepted and will be incorporated into the VIETCOT curriculum, as well as becoming part of the treatment offered at the Kien Khieang National Rehabilitation Center and CHA.  In addition, an outreach connection was made with Catholic Charities of Sri Lanka. 

Saturday, December 12, 2009

End The Pain Project Ventures Into Vietnam

Friday, December 18, marks the beginning of End The Pain Project activity in Vietnam.  Co-Founder, Moira-Judith Mann arrives on that date to bring information about Mirror Therapy for amputees suffering Phantom Limb Pain to several Vietnamese organizations serving amputees in various capacities. First stop -Hanoi.  Mid-January, she will visit Phnom Penh, Cambodia to establish connections.

Mann will present the ETPP ToolKit; a newly developed unbreakable mirror system prototype and portable PrismGlasses, recently invented by Dr. Jonathan Bannister and Dr. Glyn Walsh of Scotland and marketed by Scottish Health Innovations Ltd., all as non-invasive interventions to reduce or end Phantom Limb Pain.