Removing Sutures

One of the physios called us in to see his client today as he was removing sutures. The client had an operation on his ankle and had been stitched up. I didn’t realize physios removed sutures. He showed us how he cleaned the area with an alcohol wipe and then using scissors and tweezers removed the sutures. He said by pulling gently on them first it caused less pain. There were 3 sutures to remove. The actual process didn’t look too hard, you just have to be careful to clean to area properly. It was certainly interesting to see. I doubt I’ll get a chance to try it myself on this prac but if I ever had to do it in the future I think I could manage.