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Back Pain Assessment at a Physiotherapy Clinic
Physiotherapist (speaking English) and Patient (speaking Afrikaans) talk through “Back Pain Assessment at a Physiotherapy Clinic”. You interpret both ways — English into Afrikaans, and Afrikaans into English — one segment at a time, exactly as in the CCL test.
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Tell me more about when this back pain started, what you were doing at the time, and how it's affecting you daily.
Dit het Maandag begin toe ek by die pakhuis in Kwinana swaar dose opgetel het. Sedertdien is my onderrug baie styf.
On a scale of one to ten, how bad is the pain, and does it spread down your leg or cause numbness?
Dit voel na omtrent sewe uit tien, en soms kry ek 'n tinteling wat afskiet na my linkerbeen toe.
I'll check your movement and reflexes now. If there's no improvement within two weeks, we may need an X-ray to rule out disc involvement.
As ek 'n X-straal nodig het, hoe lank sal ek by Fiona Stanley Hospital moet wag, en gaan dit iets kos?
Fiona Stanley Hospital's imaging department currently has about a three-week wait for non-urgent X-rays, but Medicare covers the cost fully if your GP provides a referral.
Goed, dan wag ek maar. Wat kan ek intussen doen om die pyn nou dadelik te verlig?
Apply ice for fifteen minutes several times a day, do gentle stretches, and avoid heavy lifting until your follow-up appointment.
Kan ek nog steeds bestuur en my gewone werk by die pakhuis doen, of moet ek ligter pligte vra?
Driving short distances is fine, but ask your supervisor for modified duties and no lifting over five kilograms until we review you next week.
Dankie, fisioterapeut, ek sal met my baas praat oor ligter pligte en ek sien u volgende week weer.
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- medicareSê net 'Medicare' soos dit is; dit is 'n eiename en het geen Afrikaanse vertaling nie.
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Practice dialogue written to the CCL specification (two speakers, segments of 35 words or fewer, about 300 words). It is a practice text, not a NAATI test paper, and the AI score is this site's estimate, not a NAATI result. All Afrikaans dialogues · All languages