Physiotherapy experience projects in Mexico

Physiotherapy in Mexico

Our physiotherapy volunteers work in a Physiotherapy Clinic in Puerto Vallarta. The clinic was established in 1981 by a group of volunteers who wanted to provide help to people who are suffering from disabilities or people recovering from serious fractures that were unable to pay for their rehabilitation therapy. The clinic relies heavily on donations and in the last five years has helped over 4,500 patients.

You will start your first week by completing an induction course covering the work of the clinic and the basic procedures and workshops that you will be asked to assist with. The clinic runs a number of workshops which are tailored to the injury or disability and you will be helping in a variety of these. Although physiotherapy makes up the bulk of the workshops, you will also be asked to help with language therapy, massage and feeding the disabled patients.

Although all our projects in Mexico include a basic Spanish course, it is useful if you have at least some basic Spanish before joining the medical project in Mexico. If you have no Spanish or are not confident that your Spanish is quite up to scratch we would recommend combining programmes and joining a teaching or orphanage project first. Alternatively, we are happy to recommend a good 1 week Spanish course which you can do in Puerto Vallarta.

This project is not just for budding physiotherapy students, this programme may also be suitable for those about to study:

Nursing
Medicine
Dentistry

Dates and Costs

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2008	£1,045	£1,045	£945	£945	£945	£1,045	£1,045	£1,045	£945	£945	£945	£845
2009	£1,045	£1,045	£945	£945	£945	£1,045	£1,045	£1,045	£945	£945	£945	£845
2010	£845	£845	£845	£845	£845	£845	£845	£845	£845	£845	£845	£845