A physiotherapist who learned to tap dance to help the recovery of a 95-year-old patient has been praised for giving her back “her joy of dance and life”.
Sean Lissner has been helping Dorothy in her recovery over the last year after she broke her hip, and he discovered during their sessions in Los Angeles that she used to be a choreographer and dance teacher.
The 28-year-old asked her to teach him some steps and, over the course of around four months, she choreographed and taught him a tap routine.
He told the PA news agency: “She always says this: ‘Shaun, who’d have ever thought that your physical therapist would end up dancing with a patient, especially me because I’m 95 years old?’