Probus Club of Bairnsdale held its monthly meeting on Wednesday, February 14, despite many members being affected by the previous night’s storm.
The meeting commenced a little late with 25 members and three guests in attending.
This month’s profile speaker was Paul Hosegood.
Paul started life in 1952 living with his family in Clifton Hill, they later moved to Frankston when the area was semi rural.
Paul went to Frankston Tech to become an apprentice motor mechanic.
He didn’t enjoy this and applied for the position as assistant projectionist at the local movie theatre.
He enjoyed this and went to RMIT to become a fully licensed projectionist.
He was approached to go to Sydney to train staff in the use of Multiplex projectors.
He then started his own business in document shredding.
One of his customers was the Austin Hospital from where they shredded four tons of material per day.
He sold the business and moved to the Mornington Peninsula before he and his wife moved to Wy Wung.
The guest speaker was Parivesh Kumar a physiotherapist talking on pain and pain management.
The role of a pain educator is to work as a team with doctors to manage chronic pain that affects 20 per cent of people over 45.
Patients are prescribed opioids but this does not result in a sustainable outcome for clients.
General exercise is not necessarily good but exercise specific to the problem and designed to minimise pain allowing greater levels of activity.
Pain protects and promotes healing while persistent pain over protects and prevents recovery.
Pain management is about protection and retraining the pain receptors to minimise pain and allow better recovery.
