
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Occupational therapy is a profession which aims to maintain, restore and create a match between the abilities of the person, the demands of their profession, environment and help them in their daily activity participation.
Occupational therapist helps any person with any illness or disease or disorder to get
back to their life and fulfil their daily occupations and be functionally independent
with an improved quality of life.
Services
- Clinical Elements in the department-
- Medical and Surgical Management
- Pain Management
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Social Work
- Community Based Rehabilitation
The Department offers all of the following elements of the rehabilitation process
Treatment of all routine medical problems encountered by disabled individuals is carried out by the department. Operations are performed for the surgical management of pressure sores and for correction of deformities
Management of all types of pain with physical modalities, therapies as well as interventional pain management procedures
A variety of physical modalities like heat, sound, light, and electricity are used to
alleviate pain and improve functioning.
Occupational therapy is concerned with enhancing a disabled person’s
functioning through training in specific activities and skills.
The ultimate aim of rehabilitation is to enable the disabled person to be a productive
individual within society. This action extends beyond the walls of the hospital to ensure that vocational
rehabilitation takes place.
Community Based Rehabilitation aims at changing the
environment, enabling patients to find methods to modify available infrastructure for easier access
and helping them to meet other special needs they will encounter while living in their community.
Outpatient services, In-patient services, Special Clinics, Outreach program
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
- Hypoxic brain injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Hemophilia
- Sports related injuries
- Work related injuries
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Musculoskeletal pai
- pressure ulcer management
- Cerebral palsy
- Arms and legs deformities like CTEV, bow legs, malunited bones
- Deformity correction in long standing contractures
- Developmental delay
- Cerebral palsy
- Spina bifida
- Muscular dystrophy
- Pediatric traumas
- Post Encephalitis sequelae
Rehabilitation-oriented interventional procedures for:
- Spasticity management
- Pain management (shoulder, back, long-standing pain, headache, any pain)
- Ultrasound guided injections
- Peripheral joint injections
- Orthotic and Prosthetic unit for customized splints and artificial limbs.
- Comprehensive treatment for Diabetic Foot including ulcer management, pressure relieving devices for foot ulcers, customised footwear and patient education.