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“Who is sitting on that empty chair?” We all spend time sitting on different chairs, at home, in office, coffee shops, and class rooms every day. We are sitting for various time durations. People working in offices, tend to sit a little more while working on computers, or there are some other jobs requiring sitting for long hours. People sitting for prolonged hours and working often complain of pain in back. Therefore, they choose the best chairs for them, more comfortable, cushiony, something that feels soft on our backs and comfortable on our buttocks and might trouble us a little less. Ergonomics says, there are certain angles of knees or elbows that should be attained while sitting on chair and working. According to ergonomics, the posture that is attained after adjusting the measurements imposes lesser stresses on our body and is less harmful and relieves pain. We often use cushions, back rests or arm rests that modifies our chairs and looks much more comfortable. Th...

7 Myths about Physiotherapy. The word “myth” is derived from a Greek word “mythos” meaning “story”. It expresses a culture, which has been followed since ancient times, an old practice, thoughts and values. These are the stories which are now considered to be exaggerated. It often includes the misconceptions about something which is being continued to believe even today. Physiotherapy is an old practice, which came into existence in 460 BC by physicians like Hippocrates. They introduced the idea of manual manipulation, hydrotherapy and massage therapy. Per Henrik ling, known to be “Father of Gymnastics”, founded the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics in 1813 and introduced exercise. By the end of 19 th century, modern physiotherapy was established. Myth #1- Physiotherapy is all about massage. Most of us believe that “physiotherapists are the massage therapists”. Hold on there! “Physiotherapists” are “physiotherapists” specialized in physical medicine a...

  THE TRIGGER POINTS image from google You might be thinking about how knots can even be growing inside your muscles. Is this possible for a muscle to develop knots inside? Well, Yes! These things are for real. You do sometimes have knots in your muscles usually called as the MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINTS, in medical terms. Recently I have been doing a research as a partial fulfillment for my BPT course, and I found some really good results and learnt a lot of new concepts. My research was based on the management of trigger points, a comparative study between two treatment protocols. So, here I decided to share with you my experience throughout the research and also I’ll try to explain you in brief what these points actually are. TRIGGER POINTS (Tying up of the muscles). Trigger points (muscle knots) are the small hyperirritable nodules often found in a tight band of muscle fibers. These knots are sometimes palpable as a considerably big round knot found d...

My journey so far: peaks and valleys. "will it be easy? nope. worth it? absolutely!" Starting up with a blog in third year of graduation wasn’t easy, in a four and a half years Bachelors in Physiotherapy program. You know a lot of things but you still lack many. When I decided to join physiotherapy, I wasn’t much aware of what actually I need to do as a professional. Just the same way my family and friends didn’t know much about what this profession actually holds. All I knew was exercise, but trust me, it’s much more than that. As I began to understand physiotherapy slowly, by the end of my first year or second year, people around me began to ask questions about it. The simplest of questions like, why do we use heat? How does heat relieves pain? Heat or ice? How can I be benefited with a therapeutic machine? How does exercise help us? And many more. India is still lagging behind in understanding the role and importance of physiotherapy. P...

HOW EXERCISE CONTROLS MOOD “You’re only one workout away from good mood” Women of today’s world are not same anymore, they have changed in every possible manner. Beginning her day from waking up early in the morning and rushing to the kitchen to returning home after a tiring day at office and finally going to bed. In such a chaotic way of living, women face lots of emotional situations as well. As rightly quoted, “ Women are not as immune from emotions as men”,  a day in a woman’s life is full of different emotions, happiness, sadness, anger, frustration, disappointment, tiredness and what not. Women these days are so busy managing stuffs in their lives that they forget themselves. Their inner peace is lost somewhere. A lot of women try many different remedies, some change their dietary habits, some listen to their favorite music and some go for counselling in extreme situations. What if I say, there can be an even better option to deal with all the day-to-day lif...

“I am exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel…..” “Sleep just isn’t sleep anymore, it’s an escape…..” “No amount of sleep could cure the tiredness I feel…….” “I’ll be alright, one day, someday, just not today……….” And many more thoughts, emotions, feelings, fears. The unspoken truth, that ultimately drags a person into a world in which there is no end to despair, loneliness, distress, agony, pain, that we all in our common language call DEPRESSION . Hello there, This time I am beginning with a series of mental health conditions and the role of physiotherapy to overcome them. We all take care of our physical and physiological health, caring about your body’s physiology is a very good thing indeed but, ever thought of brain going through the same? As rightly said by my teacher, brain also needs food just the way body needs. We never forget eating food thrice a day, that’s absolutely normal, we feed our body to enable it to work and if at all we fall s...