Physio Treating Child Actually Treating Parent

The parent of a primary school aged child with an injured wrist has been surreptitiously treated by the child’s Physiotherapist. The parent, Freda Fretalot, 39, booked her child for an assessment after the child complained of a sore wrist while packing her toys away.

“I was so worried she might have a fracture, or cancer or covid wrist… that’s a thing isn’t it?”, asked Mrs Fretalot to our reporter. “I mean, she seems fine when she’s distracted and playing with her friends or toys, but as soon as it’s time to sit still and eat her vegies or clean her teeth or have a bath, she complains that her wrist is sore! Last week we were having a great time at the indoor rock-climbing place, she was like a little spider man zipping about. But then when it was time to tidy her room later in the afternoon she was just in too much pain, she just had to sit on the couch eating Maltesers and watching Frozen, followed by Frozen II and El Canto. And then suddenly when her neighbour came over to play, she was fine, dancing around doing handstands and singing ‘We don’t talk about Bruno’. It’s so weird… What type of injury would behave like that?”

Our reporter later touched base with the treating Physiotherapist who was unable to offer a comment owing to the recent onset of an acute case of facepalm.