 Believe it or not, Hillary's guests had a few minutes of saying they wanted to stay on set. Thank you so very much, Hillary, for that riveting conversation on youth and politics. In case you missed it, at White Fight For Channel on YouTube is how to find us. My name is Dil Valentine or at Colour Meval, but what is of importance is White Fight For Facebook, White Fight For Channel on Twitter, hashtag is so not social Friday. Why is my head still on Friday? It's because it's a holiday tomorrow. I'm confused, circle is a day. Hashtag is er, er, why the worry? There we go. So it's health on Monday, and we're going to be talking about physiotherapy. And it could actually not be at all. So we're about to embark on a journey. Let's get excited, guys. Hi. Hi. How are you? Fantastic. You look like you're about to just walk into a dinner party. You're just missing a cabota. It's true. Do you go to work like this? This is how your Monday to Friday looks. Yes. Wow. Great, yes. Wow, wow. Come, come, come to Cardinospital for evidence. Even the air there is different, I hear. I'm not used. It's, it's a fresh air. What's your good name, sir? Henry Opondo. And what do you do? I'm a physiotherapist by profession. I'm being charged at Cardinospital. When I was in school, I did a paper on scoliosis. And I found out that the fastest man, okay, I don't know if he's still the fastest man, but the fastest man then, Usain Bolt, had scoliosis. His spine was curved. That means, so that means his, his spine is a little bit like this, but what marveled me that is he was the fastest person in the world. So, then after the race, he is immediately on a table and he's been giving a massage. What, what, that's physiotherapy in a nutshell. But yes, it's more than massage. Massage, I'll say massage is like anaesthesia. Where? When you are going for, what is the common surgery, you know? I don't know. We last had a conversation about removing fibroids. Okay, yes. So, you need an anesthetist to help the surgeon make you comfortable so that they can give you the right treatment. So, I'll say massage is like anaesthesia. So, there's more to that. Yes. Okay, walk me through it. If a lame person came and asked you, hello, what is a physiotherapy? Okay. First of all, I'll tell them it's a medical profession. We start from there. That's responsible for helping human beings to restore, maintain and promote their functional level, their strength, their ability to move. Wow. And overall well-being. So, since my first image of physiotherapy was with Usain Bolt, so I kind of lean towards athletes a lot. So, why is it important for athletes physiotherapy? Great. Same thing. You want to travel, let's say to Dar es Salaam, Udaka. It's your usual car. You bought it five years ago. You want to go to Dar es Salaam. All the practical thing will be before you start the journey is to make sure the car is in good shape. True. Isn't it? That's so smart. Service it before, okay, now you're making sense. Isn't it? Yeah. So, same to human beings. You want to engage in competitive activity that requires strength, requires movement, requires overall functioning. Physiotherapy must be there. Is it important for day-to-day life? Like, do I need physiotherapy as I am? Yes, you do. That says yes. Yeah. How is the answer even yes? How do you even know? So many people are usually. When you look at the overall functioning of a human being, activity-wise, it involves a lot of movement. For example, for you to sit down upright, it means your hip joint must be able to bend forward. Isn't it? And your knee should be able to bend backward. And your spine should be able to remain straight. And you should be able to have a strong neck to keep your head up and nod when I'm talking to you. Yeah, so that's the body. I'm a physiotherapist. I'm a specialist in anything to do with. Muscles. What we call the meat. Because it's the muscles that initiate movement. I'm responsible for your joint flexibility. The things I see again, that this is very largely dependent on the movies and series I watch, is things to do with acupuncture. As came to maybe if they have like one leg is slightly, you know, longer than the other. I don't know. Do you go and fix, fix and put, put things? What actually goes on there? What's, what's happening? What's the scientific term for it? I may not talk a lot about the acupuncture, the chyros and so forth. I respect what they do. But the science behind, so how do we call it is they're largely referred as alternative medicine. Oh, like herbs and things? Yes. Okay. So, originally from Chinese, I respect what they do. For the last ten years I've worked as a physiotherapist in different hospitals. I've never seen a hospital that has acupuncturist chiropractors in-house and so forth. So, largely they have not been so regulated by the Ministry of Health like physiotherapy and so forth. But the insight I have is they use different techniques to manage pain. And that's what brings the difference with physiotherapy. Is that when you complain of pain, it's good news to us because it tells us something somewhere is not right. So, we use skills to be able to establish what could be the cause of your pain. For example, if you tell me you're feeling neck pain, the first thing I'll do is to try to find out why do you have this pain. So, in trying to find out is to be able to find out in terms of what structures or tissues or the joints that is giving you pain and at what point are they giving you pain. Is it that you're tight? Are you stiff? There's a difference. Yes. Are you weak? Okay. So, you can talk but now it reaches a point whereby we use our hands to be able to diagnose, assess and treat. So, we are really not trying to treat the pain. We are trying to treat the cause of your pain. Oh, instead of now the symptom itself. Now pain is a symptom. I'm catching on. Pain is a symptom. So, if you have headache for example, will you and me to treat the headache or to treat the cause of your headache? The cause. The cause of your headache. Brilliant. So, we use symptoms to guide us establish what is the problem so that we solve the problem. So, acupuncture, use of those needles you are talking about, they are very good. I hear they are very good in helping to cure pain. But as physiotherapists, we have different modalities or different approach in managing pain. Yes, we also use certain physical modalities or equipments or machine to manage pain. However, our objective is to find out the dysfunction, the problem causing you headache for example. Okay. I have so many questions, oh my gosh. But also, if you have a question, I try to find it on Facebook. I try to find it on Twitter. And hashtag is YN. The morning, we have a situation. You know, you just hear the immediately the first reaction will be, ah, how do I know that what is ailing me is cannot be fixed by exercise maybe regular exercise or just stretching. Even yoga again an alternative method for curing pain. How do I know that anyway, you need to go see a physiotherapist, go to your nearest doctor. How do I know the difference? When do I know if when it's too extreme, am I just caused by my maybe laziness or immobility? Good question. Most of the time, especially the youths. Ah, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You've heard though he's started. He knows where he is at the home of the youths. We'll be right back. Don't go away. Short break.