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OuruilDo PERTH AGRI BUILDERS P.R. 2 Staffa, Ontario 345-2284 SECOND SECTION EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 13, 1976 Page 19 siotherapy speeds recoveries r Exeter and area patients His philosophy on physiotherapy is brief. "The idea is to help nature to help itself", he says. The whole purpose of physical medicine or physio- therapy, is to enhance the recuperative powers of the human body by applying specific sound, light, heat and exercise to issues." Mr. LeGault points out that a person's recuperative powers tend to diminish past the age of maturity. "By age 65, for example, recuperdtion is about 25 percent of what it was at age 25." Le Gault is on duty at the hospital three mornings a week to apply therapy to resident pat lent st here. Three days a week at least Mr. Le Gault operates a private practice in his office at 503 Main Street for out-patients, Having been in the profession for 25 years, he is completely ex- perienced, but he is always up- dating his knowledge of therapy and looking at new equipment; as echnology in the field progresses. Physiotherapy is relatively new to Canada. Mr. LeGault points out that his registration number as a therapist in Ontario is 194 and contrasts with the fact that there are close to 1900 practicing physiotherapists in the RESISTANCE IS USED in physiotherapy to strengthen muscles which have not been used, as well as provide exercise to stretch tendons and ligaments. Gerrard LeGault, Exeter's new physiotherapist, observes a patient who is working with resistance designed to tone up arm and shoulder muscles, physiotherapy be applied as soon as the patient is well enough and healed enough to handle it. It often means at least two or three trips to the physiotherapist a week. The town of Exeter is fortunate to have the services of a crackerjack physiotherapist, something it did not have despite the existence of its own hospital, until about three months ago, Gerard LeGault is a veteran therapist, having been in the profession since 1951. He was asked Income to Exeter when the Hospital Board at South Huron Hospital and administrator, Elmer Taylor, decided that there were enough people requiring this type of service in the area, that it should be provided. The greatest advantage of having a physiotherapist right here in town is that it saves numerous back and forth trips to hospital in London. In the case of the majority of patients requiring therapy, the trip is long, time consuming, and a strain. Now patients are only a few blocks or at the most a few miles away from treatment. Mr. LeGault is an extremely youthful-looking man for his 49 years. You get the feeling that lie practices what he preaches to his physio patients. By LEIGH ROBINSON Recovering from an operation is often a fairly long ordeal. Where it takes only a few hours for most surgery to be completed, it takes the human body days, weeks, and sometimes months to return to normal. There is a certain amount of shock to the system resulting !rum surgery, often accompanied by sore muscles, tendons, and I issues. The younger you are the greater the capacity for your body to overcome these side- effects, but sometimes nature needs a little help. The proper exercise is important, not too much so that tissues are strained or even ttwo, but not so little that muscles and tendons lose tone and elasticity. It is the job of the physiotherapist to ensure that a surgical patient, or for that matter patients suffering from mobility problems to limbs, stiff backs from arthritis, rheumatism, etc., receive the proper exercise and treatment necessary to complement and maximize the effect of treatment administered by the medical doctor, In I he initial period after surgery, for example, it is ex- rem el y important that Beside Bank of Montreal, Exeter PLEASING YOU — PLEASES US played to break down scar tissue which tends to lack elasticity essential to normal movement, allowing the muscle and tendon to stretch with movement of the arm. The treatment was effective and the patient so far has in- creased his arm movement to close to 90 percent of the normal range, where he had been only able to raise the arm to mid- abdomMal level before treatment began. The patient was yours truly, the writer of this article. .Like they say, one learns best. about a subject through experience. province alone, today. He notes that prior to the expansion in numbers of therapists in the early '60's, Canadian doctors were not aware of the ef- fectiveness and potential of physiotherapy. Today, that situation has changed dramatically, and a prescription by a surgeon or doctor for a post- operative or disabled patient to see a physiotherapist is now a routine matter. In addition to practicing in Ontario, Mr, Le Gault has practiced physiotherapy in several interesting areas of the world. lie had a private practice in Nassau in the Bahamas for 12 years, and also worked in the far east and Brazil, "'Technically speaking, travel probably hasn't markedly enhanced my technique but it has made me realize that people are all the same under the skin. I guess I've learned more humanity." He notes a couple of problems that often come up in his pro- fession with regard to patients, Although they sound amusing,, Mr. Le Gault says that they are true just the same and can perplex the physiotherapist, "Some patients won't listen to you when you tell them that their condition is acute and that they should be coming for therapy regularly. You see them on the street and you mention it and they just smile and conveniently forget to come in." Then you get a call around 1(1 p.m. on a Sunday night and the same person says he needs treatment immediately because of extreme pain. He remembers another case, where the patient had been receiving treatments for about two weeks and had come along very satisfactorily. When Le Gault told him that he could go back to work, the patient said that he was receiving com- pensation and didn't need to go hack to work so soon, claiming he had too many other things to do, Le Gault placed a call to the attending physician and suggested that the man was no longer in need of therapy and left it with him to decide. Le Gault has several in- teresting pieces of equipment which he uses, depending on the pal lees particular problem. For example in the case of a patient who had received surgery to the chest, extending to the armpit and part of the bicep, Le Gault employed a sonar machine which sends out sound waves. In this case, surgery had cut into the chest muscle and had affected the elasticity of both the muscle and tendon. The sonar machine was em- IN ADDITION TO EXERCISING EQUIPMENT shown above, and traction instruments, Exeter's new physiotherapist, Gerrard LeGault employs sound, light, and heat machines to treat patients suffering from a variety of mobility problems. He also has a steam cabinet at his Main St. office, uilder refutes comments paring in T-A editorial properties on Wm. St. were zoned commercial, and was advised to have a petition signed by the residents, to have their property rezoned to residential. I would therefore like to make Dea • Editor: I would like to clarify and refute statements made in the Editorial of the T.A. last week, regarding the rezoning of property which I own at the north end of Exeter, Several years ago I purchased the above mentioned parcel of land, which at that time was zoned residential. Having been approached by a party interested in setting up a business branch on that property, I requested to council to have that particular property rezoned to commercial. After waiting for some time I was informed by council that it could take several months and possibly several years to have it rezoned, and as a result that business was set up elsewhere. Because the parcel of land contains six lots, and because building happens to be the business I am in, I decided this spring to build homes on the three westerly lots facing Wm. Street, which to my thinking could only benefit the town in additional taxes, on what would otherwise be waste land. Aware of the fact that I had originally asked that the property be zoned commercial, I contacted the planning consultant for the town, and was told by him that the official plan had not become law in Exeter, and there would be no problem in rezoning those three lots to residential. I then applied for a permit to council, and was refused on the grounds that the property could not be split in its zoning, that it had to be either all commercial or all residential. On further in- vest igation by myself I found that this is not true, And in further seeking legal aid 'discovered that all the neighbouring it quite clear, that at no time did I ask council to have any neigh- bouring properties rezoned commercial or otherwise. August Gregus Gregus Construction Ltd.