Department of Physiotherapy
Introduction
Physiotherapy or Physical therapy is a health care profession, and the practitioner is known as Physiotherapist or Physical therapist, also known as Movement Scientist whose work is to assess and evaluate the client’s condition and do the needful by treating through Electrotherapy (Modalities with which high, medium and low-frequency currents are given to the patients), Exercise Therapy (Manual Therapy, stretching, strengthening etc.), heat and cold therapy etc. In general, Physical therapist also provides health education and gives referral services after understanding the condition properly; we guide the patient to other healthcare practitioners to prevent certain diseases and disorders especially related to Cardio, Sports, Paediatric, Geriatric and Neuro-Musculoskeletal diseases and disorders. If couldn’t be prevented and the patient suffers from pain, swelling, loss of function may be due to tightness, contracture or deformity can come to the Department of Physiotherapy for restoration of function and alleviation of pain, then also if the problem is not solved and the condition looks beyond our reach can take help of medicine and surgery practitioners, in fact, we provide services even after surgery to help the patient community for a better lifestyle and quality of life.
Physiotherapy (PT) is care that aims to ease pain and help you function, move, and live better. Specifically, physiotherapy looks to achieve these objectives for their patients:
- Relieve pain
- Improve movement or ability
- Prevent or recover from a sports injury
- Prevent disability or surgery
- Rehab after a stroke, accident, injury, or surgery
- Work on balance to prevent a slip or fall
- Manage a chronic illness like diabetes, heart disease, or arthritis
- Recover after you give birth
- Control your bowels or bladder
- Adapt to an artificial limb
- Learn to use assistive devices like a walker or cane
Facilities:
- *Continuous passive movement device for elbow, shoulder, and knee.
- *Cervical & lumber traction unit.
- *Moist heat, wax bath
- *Short wave diathermy
- *Long wave diathermy
- *Interferential therapy
- *Transe cutaneous electrical nerve stimulator
- *Muscle stimulator
- *Shoulder wheel & pulley
- *Laser Therapy
- *Ultrasound therapy
- *Parallel bar
- *Hand exercise workstation
- *Multi-exercise for leg & arm
- *Treadmill
- *Multi gym
- *Manual Therapy
Services Provided:
Some common and uncommon conditions that need to visit our Dept. are as follows: –
- Low back pain (due to spondylosis, PIVD (Prolapsed Intervertebral Disk), compression fracture, SI joint sprain, Spondylolisthesis, Muscle Spasm etc.)
- Neck pain ((due to spondylosis, PIVD (Prolapsed Intervertebral Disk), compression fracture, Muscle Spasm)
- Cervical and Lumbar Radiculopathy
- Frozen Shoulder, SLAP lesion, Shoulder Instability and impingement syndrome, Bursitis etc.
- Elbow conditions like Tennis Elbow, Golfer’s Elbow, Student’s Elbow, Post fracture Stiffness in the elbow joint.
- Wrist conditions like wrist drop, wrist joints sprain etc.
- Hip conditions like Hip-arthritis, Necrosis of the Femoral Head, after total hip replacement etc.
- Knee conditions like arthritis of the knee (like osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis), chondromalacia patella, ACL, PCL, MCL, LCL, Meniscus-injury etc.
- Ankle conditions like an ankle sprain, foot drop, CTEV etc.
- TMJ dysfunction
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- COPD
- Palliative care
- Post-natal rehabilitation
- Cervicogenic headache, tension headache, migraine
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Paediatric rehabilitation
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Stroke (Ischaemic and Haemorrhagic
- Parkinson’s disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Transverse Myelitis
- Post-fracture rehabilitation
- Geriatric Rehabilitation
- Obesity