OH NO, Dr Adrian Lorde. Bajan physiotherapists are not strangers to local track and field.
So says chairman of the Barbados Physical Therapy Association, Dr Gerry Warner, who has dismissed Lorde’s justification for not having a physio on the country’s Olympic team after citing numerous instances where physiotherapists help in the sport.
“To state that only one physiotherapist by name, a well respected colleague of mine, works with the athletes is simply not true [because] I personally know there are other physios who work with teams,” said Warner.
“Every athletic season we go around to particular schools and offer them free services. Some of them take it, some of them don’t. Queen’s College has taken up my offer and other athletes come through our department and we look at them, but there’s no fanfare about it. We do what we have to do and we do it quietly. Free of charge.”
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