Lucy Inyang Edet – 30 DoS – Day 28

I grew up in Nigeria. 

Sports has always been an important part of my life. In my neighbourhood growing up, I watched the excitement in young boys during football matches every day, and their disappointment missing out following injury. Now, I’m flying high at two things: design and construction of healthcare and sporting facilities, and sports injury rehabilitation.

I have served in sustainability, medical doping, healthy athletes, and fun fitness capacities during the FIFA World Cup, the African cup of Nations, an IAAF Road race, the Paralympics, the Special Olympics, and Universaide and Youth games.

My most recent work: Can global running gait and psychological status affect performance and injuries of sportsmen: Views from 19km road race was presented at the last FIFA Football Medicine Conference, at Wembley stadium in 2019.

And I am now preparing to start a doctoral study on the chaos control continuum following anterior cruciate ligament injuries in elite female footballers.

I’m currently lecturing at a newly established Program of Physiotherapy in a Nigerian University, where my students are encouraged to make connections to real-life scenarios and identify patterns, consider unlimited points of view in solving problems, and boost their critical thinking skills. 

As a continuous learner and a young academic, I am convinced that joining the Critical Physiotherapy Network (CPN) has helped me consider unconventional opinions and make rational decisions for those I work with, whether on pitch, or in the classroom. I believe in all round excellence, with an unflinching desire for the best of innovations, strategies, and solutions in my contribution to the CPN.

We must recognise that we face unprecedented situations in healthcare, with swift technological advances, the future is shaping us. The broader physiotherapy profession needs to become familiar with fast-paced digitisation in order to control technology. More than ever, there is a need for professionals and organisations with increased flexibility in thinking outside their postal code, adopting a virtualization mindset.