Iraq-Jordan: Mouna, a double amputee - Part IV: Overcoming the pain
MOUNA VIDEO SERIES
Iraq-Jordan: Mouna, a double amputee - Part I: Step by Step See video
Iraq-Jordan: Mouna, a double amputee - Part II: Her First Steps See video
Iraq-Jordan: Mouna, a double amputee - Part III: Put to the test See video
Iraq-Jordan: Mouna, a double amputee - Part IV: Overcoming the pain See video
Iraq-Jordan: Mouna, a double amputee - Part V: Walking again See video
00:12 - To warm up her muscles, they start with a massage... Mouna is just one session away from receiving her artificial limbs, but before that she needs to be able to extend her knee fully.. something she needs to work on. This morning, together with her the physiotherapist, she will do exercises aimed at achieving that, exercises that prove both difficult and painful…
00:43 - Faris Bin Yassin, kinesiotherapist (English, but difficult to understand): "Because make the extension of the knee and movement of patella, before 3 weeks she has a fracture here because he wants the full extension,I have to make a small pressure here because this is painful’’ (what he says in very bad English).
01:03 - Slowly but surely, by stretching her muscles and freeing her patella, the physiotherapist helps Mouna reach closer to walking again. She will have to do these same exercises back at the hotel with her uncle.
01:23 - It hurts when he gets me to move my leg
01:27 - It’s the first time it has been so painful since they’ve made her artificial limb."
