Physiotherapy Unit

PHYSIOTHERAPY

Physiotherapy is physical medicine and rehabilitation especially that enhance bodily function and mobility by means of assessment, diagnosis and prescribing structured exercise protocol.

Physiotherapy Specialty:

• Orthopedic
• Neurology
• Cardio vascular and pulmonary
• Pediatric
• Sports
• women’s health
• Common misconception about physiotherapy:

• It means “massage”
• It means using various forms of current and hot packs.
• Needs referral from doctor to visit physiotherapy
• A visit to physio hurts very much.

Human Resource:

1. Vimal Prajapati – Physiotherapist (Department Incharge)
2. Sachita Rayamajhi – Assistant Physiotherapist
3. Samundra Thapa Magar – Assistant Physiotherapist
4. Chandra Deep Kumar Mahato – Assistant Physiotherapist
5. Bhairab Oli – Helper
6. Sarita Tamang – Helper

Patient Distribution:

• All age group from children to old age.
• Middle aged women, suffering from repetitive stess injury consist the higher number of patient.

Commonest problems:

• Mechanical back pain.
• Ostcoarthritis knee.
• Frozen shoulder.
• Disc prolapse.

Physiotherapy treatment:

• Treatment can be categorized into three headings.
• Assessment
• Goal setting
• Treatment intervention

• Assessment

• Assessment includes history taking, doing various physical test.
• Goal setting
• After assessment therapist determines the maximum advom of patient.
• With the help of these goals therapist chooses various intervention to give optimal result to patient.
• Treatment intervention
• To achieve the goals setup earlier physical therapist uses various intervention.
• These intervention can be classified into two categories.
• Manual techniques
• Electrotherapy
• Manual techniques include
• Mobilization/ Manipulation
• Taping techniques
• Structured exercise
• Electrotherapy
• Heating modalities
• Various forms of current (TENS, TFT)
• Ultrasound