Throughout her years at high school, sport physiotherapist Angelica Holder, 26, originally of Richmond Hill, Linden, wanted to become a doctor or a lawyer but one month after beginning the pre-med programme at the University of Guyana, she realised that medicine would not suit the lifestyle she was looking forward to and switched to physiotherapy.
“It was a good thing I realised that early, because it meant I might not have thrived in medicine. At the time I had no idea what physiotherapy was until I saw the programme being offered at UG. It was a fairly new programme and very-science oriented with a lot of topics I wanted to study,” she said.
As a physiotherapist, she uses exercise and non-invasive procedures to rehabilitate or treat musculoskeletal injuries, strains and sprains. “There is a lot of science in using exercise to get people stronger in general. We advocate for more exercise over medicine because it is safe and it has a lot of physiological benefits,” she enthused. “It gets you healthier and when you have injuries you learn to appreciate how much the body does for you. Simple exercises help to lower pain and get you stronger. It can also prevent injury and enhances performance, especially in sport.”
