Introduction : The Abhinav Bindra Foundation, a non-profit initiative by India’s First Individual Gold Medalist, Abhinav Bindra aims at making the Global Best Practice accessible to the Indian Physiotherapy and Sports Science Industry. By imbibing technology in the Industry, the organization sees an Indian (and Global) Sports and Healthcare Ecosystem that looks to strive towards an Accountable, Acc... Read More

Rehabilitation is defined as the very act of restoring someone to health or normal life after a period of illness or trauma.

Technological innovations, both existing and forthcoming, are expected to enhance the scope of patient recovery.

PHYSIOTIMES brings you a detailed insight of how we are stepping towards a technology-driven future of Rehabilitation guided by dynamic professionals.

From Indian movies to Practitioners and Patients, the crutche... Read More

1. Tell us about your experience with National Cricket Academy, BCCI

It is a privilege to work within elite Indian cricket ecosystem at the highest level as National Cricket Academy (NCA) is the main center for injury rehabilitation and training for all players. The structured framework of working, making decisions with and for the best players in the country for their injury rehab and getting them back into action in a timely and safe manner consid... Read More

Theories of pain have been changing since the proposal of the first pain theory known as the intensity theory, proposed in c.428 to 347 B.C by Athenian philosopher Plato. The theory talks about pain sensation and perception having a system of its own just like other systems of the body performing their respective functions. The evolution in pain theories led us to the biopsychosocial pain model in 1978 when George Mengel criticized the biomedical model of pain and considered pain as a holisti... Read More

World Health Organization, has already recognized the importance of exercise for the quality of care in the LTCF setting. Scientific evidence from recent meta-analyses have shown that exercise training, i.e., a subset of physical activity that is planned, structured, repetitive, and purposeful, being generally used to improve/maintain physical and functional capacities, has been found to have positive effects on the ability to perform ADLs in LTCF patients. Exercise training presents undoubta... Read More

   Kegel exercises were first discussed in literature in 1948 by a male gynaecologist Dr. Kegel. Kegel exercises are meant to close the openings in the pelvic floor (urethra, vagina [if present] and anus) and lift them up. Kegel exercises are commonly thought to only benefit women but men have pelvic floor muscles and can be benefited by keeling as well. Kegel exercises are often thought of as a cure all too any and all pelvic floor dysfunction. In my opinion Kegels are OVER prescri... Read More

Tanya is a 29-year-old IT employee hailing from the city of the queen of Arabian sea. She was one of the promising, enthusiastic and energetic resources for the company with a good reputation. One fine morning she started gaining weight, feeling sluggish and lethargic. It was very frustrating for her to be in that situation. She was confused with the body signs and symptoms and it continued for more than a month. As a first step, she talked to a family friend who was a physiotherapist about t... Read More

Neuro-rehabilitation is a complex medical process which aims to aid recovery from a nervous system injury, and to minimize and or compensate for any functional alterations resulting from it. It mainly includes neurophysiological approaches and task specific practice for motor control and recovery.

The PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) scale is based on the Delphi list developed by Verhagen and colleagues at the Department of Epidemiology, University of Maastricht ⁽¹⁾. The Delphi list, a criteria list for quality assessment of randomised clinical trials for conducting systematic reviews was developed by Delphi consensus. The list is based on "expert consensus", on empirical data.