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BENEFITS OF EXERCISE “Exercise is more than just physical, it’s therapeutic”- Michelle Obama Whenever we talk about fitness (particularly physical fitness), the very first thing that comes to our minds is exercise. Whether you want to lose weight, go for body toning or body building, or deal with a cardiac condition, physicians always advise you to go for routine exercise. People often feel lazy to follow a daily exercise routine, either don’t have time for exercise or sometimes are quiet impatient to get the results. That’s why it becomes a little difficult for a person to carry out any such physical activity for long. Physiotherapists ask you to add exercise to your lifestyle.  Because we believe that ‘it adds years to life’. We also believe that it’s not only physical body that is benefited by the exercise but the vital organs also gets improved. Exercise provides relaxation and reduced stress, and helps in coping up with a lot of psychological conditions as well.

R  I  C  E “They use the ice very wisely”- ken Barse Whenever you get injured, you might have observed that the most immediate treatment one can do to get a control over the situation is the use of ice,whether it is bleeding or swelling to the injured area. Similarly, physiotherapy has a very essential component for treating several acute conditions. Its the ‘R I C E’. Let’s have a look at what R I C E exactly is. And how does it help us in resolving our immediate bodily changes after some trauma or injury eventually helping us in treating the condition. R          I             C             E                   (REST   ICE    COMPRESSION   ELEVATION) ·        REST The REST is the very first component, which indicates that the injured part of the body should be allowed to take rest. Do not give unnecessary stress to the area which has already been traumatized. Rest promotes healing. Some of the micro traumas get healed on their own by rest. Rest contributes in t

World arthritis day October 12, 2016 “He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything” – Arabian proverb Hello people! Today is world arthritis day. Let’s make a good use of this day and gather some knowledge about ‘arthritis’ which is going to help us in a long run. What is arthritis? What are the damages caused to the body because of arthritis? How to find out if I have this condition? And how can I help myself treat this condition? I think, here is the answer to all your question. Arthritis is a condition affecting the joints of the body. The joint and the joint structures undergoes degenerative changes and damage. It is one of the most common joint diseases occurring to a wide range of population. Arthritis is of many different types and people of any age group and gender can be a victim of this joint disease. It can affect a single joint or sometimes multiple joints. Arthritis can be degenerative, inflammatory, infectious or metabol

Cerebral palsy children “If a child cannot learn in a way you teach, you must teach in a way the child can learn”. I have seen a cerebral palsy child growing very closely, and being a physiotherapy student I have also read about what cerebral palsy is and the ways to treat this condition. This article is for those who are not aware of what cerebral palsy is. Cerebral palsy is a movement disorder which is often congenital. The reason may be some injury to the brain of the growing fetus or after the first few days of birth, or a pre mature birth, or maybe some infection during pregnancy, or the unhygienic birth conditions or difficulty during delivery of the child, like in case of forceps baby. The condition also occurs due to some genetic reasons. There are different types of cerebral palsy, namely, spastic, ataxic, diplegic or athetoid. And the symptoms that the child may have is based on the type of condition he or she is suffering from. The very first sympto

EXERCISE IN WATER? WHY NOT? “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water” - Benjamin Franklin . The very first thing that must have come to your mind after reading the title must be swimming. That is true, but swimming alone is not the only way of exercising in water. There are facilities of exercising in water known as hydrotherapy in our rehabilitation centers nowadays. The exercises that we perform on land can be done in water as well. These physical activities include walking inside the pool, aerobics, and movements of various body parts in water. But why do we need such advancement in exercising techniques? Let’s have a look at the properties of water helping during exercise. ·          Buoyancy: The body of an individual in water weighs a lot lesser and hence water provides more flexibility to the body. The upward thrust exerted by the water on the body eliminates the effect of gravity. Water acts as a shock absorber for the body of an individual, as

DRY NEEDLING IS NOT ACUPUNCTURE Physiotherapists use many different manual techniques for relieving pain. One of the techniques which can be taken into consideration is dry needling, particularly for treating myofascial trigger points causing pain in muscles. The trigger points are the irritable points in the muscles, which are the source of pain in the whole muscle and the area around these points. These points are not formed after any trauma, inflammation or degeneration, but are developed on their own. Before having a closer look at what dry needling is, the dilemma should be cleared that it is definitely not acupuncture. You are right in thinking so that filiform needles are inserted in the body in both these techniques but, the purpose and the locations of needle insertion are far different. Acupuncture is used in a technique for balance of the flow of energy known as qi (chee) according to the Chinese medicine. In acupuncture, certain points on the body are marked w

REST IS IMPORTANT, BUT WHY? Some of us pay a lot of attention to our body, which is a very good habit indeed. We try to build up strength, pay attention to fitness, work on endurance, and sometimes work on bulking up as well. A lot of physical activities are required to get results on the above mentioned fields. Many of us indulge ourselves and do nothing by halves, and for some of us it just reaches the fever pitch. But after some time we just run out of steam and we require a period of rest to regain the same energy level and enthusiasm and to recover our body to carry out the same physical activities once again. Here we have a closer look at how rest is beneficial for our body. ·       Building strength: As the saying goes “until you are broken, you don’t know what you are made of. It gives you the ability to build yourself all over again, but stronger than ever”…… After loads of physical activities muscles often undergo micro traumas, these micro traumas eventua

THE ROTATOR CUFF – the stabilizer Shoulder, is one of the most dynamic part of our body. Serving us with a lot of functions in our day-to-day life. Shoulder joint connects the arm with the axial body. The shoulder joint is an anatomical structure of our body, providing the human skeleton immense power to carry out lots and lots of functions, not only dynamically but statically as well. The muscles surrounding the shoulder joint not only functions while carrying out some action but also works at rest. There are many different structures that contributes in the formation and function of the shoulder joint. We are discussing about one of the most powerful muscles that helps the shoulder joint to play its part- “THE ROTATOR CUFF”. This muscle is like a team of four different muscles along with their tendon named as, SUPRASPINATUS, INFRASPINATUS, TERES MINOR AND SUBSCLAPULARIS, which play their individual parts in performing different movements at shoulder joint and also helps in the