Understanding Your Pain is Understanding Your Body

The source of your pain likely confuses or eludes you. You know where you feel it but you don’t understand why you constantly feel it and why it won’t go away. No physician or Doctor is explaining the reason source of pain. The source of your pain is often hard to determine and, as such, you feel you can’t control the pain and its effects. However, you are still in control of your body and the way it functions. @ physioconsultation the physiotherapist will teach you about the biological, psychological and social factors related to your condition and how these factors can contribute to pain. These invaluable pain management skills will empower your pain relief and give you tools to use for a lifetime. Our holistic approach and advance pain management tool will give you relief with time.

Conditions commonly treated include:

• Spine-related pain (e.g. neck and low back pain)
• Myofascial pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Neuropathic pain (e.g. diabetes mellitus, shingles)
• Pelvic pain
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (formerly Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy [RSD])
• Post-surgical and post-traumatic pain
• Headache
• radiculopathy pain
• meralgia pain
• nerve compression
• posture correction

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Biofeedback in Mumbai , India

How Does Biofeedback Therapy Work?

Researchers aren't exactly sure how or why biofeedback works. They do know that biofeedback promotes relaxation, which can help relieve a number of conditions that are related to stress.

Biofeedback is the process of gaining greater awareness of many physiological functions primarily using instruments that provide information on the activity of those same systems, with a goal of being able to manipulate them at will.  Some of the processes that can be controlled include brainwaves, muscle tone, skin conductance, heart rate and pain perception.

Different types of biofeedback are used to monitor different body functions:

Electromyogram (EMG). This measures muscle activity and tension. It may be used for back pain, headaches, anxiety disorders, muscle retraining after injury, and incontinence.

Neurofeedback or electroencephalography (EEG). This measures brain waves. It may be used for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), epilepsy and other seizure disorders.

EMG triggered NeuroMuscular Electrical Stimulators (EMG-triggered NMES) : EMG triggered NeuroMuscular Electrical Stimulation is a technology to detect the extremely small electrical ElectroMyoGraphic (EMG) signals still measurable in paralyzed muscles after stroke and use these signals to initiate electrical muscle stimulation impulses to those same muscles resulting in actual muscle movement. This form of stroke rehab is used to re-learn and re-develop spontaneous muscle control, which cannot be done by electrical muscle stimulation alone

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INPP in Mumbai, India

What is INPP method?

The INPP method of Neuro-Developmental Therapy (developed by the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology) helps address difficulties associated with Neuro Develomental Immaturity (or Neuro Developmental Delay).  A clinical assessment process is used to determine an individualised movement and therapy programme designed to meet the developmental profile of the child or adult seeking assistance.  Regular assessments inform the INPP practitioner who will modify and adapt the programme over a period of time ensuring continued customisation as the patient progresses.

What is Neuro Developmental Immaturity?

Neuro Developmental Immaturity can occur when the primitive reflexes are not fully integrated and the postural reflexes are not fully developed.  This can result in children experiencing difficulty sitting still, developing co-ordination and body control, developing fine motor skills, developing adequate eye control and visual function to assist learning tasks including reading, writing and comprehension.  This physiological basis for learning difficulty can cause frustration and an inability to comply with many of the requirements of a standard schooling experience.  It can interfere with concentration, memory and perception of information.  Some children may be hypersensitive to sound or visual stimulation, unable to exclude irrelevant data and information and are therefore easily distracted.

Physio Consultation  looks behind and treats the symptoms of Neuro-Motor Immaturity (NMI), or Neuro-Developmental Delay (NDD), by identifying the roots of the problem using an assessment and screening programme developed and successfully used by Dr Peter Blythe and the Institute for Neuro Physiological Psychology since 1969, the INPP programme.

Integrating Thinking helps address:

• Reading and writing difficulties
• Educational underachievement eg. Consistently being told “you can do better”
• Dyslexia (reading difficulties)
• Dyspraxia (DCD) (clumsy child syndrome)
• Dysgraphia (writing problems)
• Co-ordination difficulties
• Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
• Concentration problems
• Asperger’s Syndrome
• Auditory processing difficulties
• Visual processing difficulties

The neuro-motor development programmes include clinical assessments and supervision of remedial programmes using specific developmental movement methods devised at the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology in the UK. (www.inpp.org.uk)

Clinical assessments include standardised neurological tests to identify underlying developmental and physiological factors that may be contributing to learning difficulties.

The INPP program is drug free and non-invasive and is designed to match the developmental profile of the child or adult assessed.

The INPP method of addressing neuro-motor immaturity is a home-based programme supported by a trained neuro-developmental therapist. Implementing the programme requires approximately 10 minutes of daily activity.

No equipment is necessary for conducting the therapy programme at home. Regular follow up assessments are scheduled on a 6 – 8 week basis with ongoing support available between visits.

Six steps to the Integrating Thinking INPP program:

1. Screening questionnaire (Free online Questionnaire);
2. Initial consultation to determine program suitability (1 — 1.5hours);
3. Diagnostic assessment and exercise programme development (2 – 3 hours);
4. Report reading and exercise programme establishment;
5. Implementing the programme (5—10 minutes/day @ home);
6. Follow up reviews at 6 weekly intervals

   vardhman jain has completed 1 year training program of INPP (www.inpp.org.uk)

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Hydrotherapy / Aquatic Therapy in Mumbai

Hydrotherapy

What is Hydrotherapy?

Hydrotherapy is a physiotherapy treatment or an exercise program consisting of a variety of water based exercises that are carried out in water or by use of water. It is popularly also know as Pool Therapy , Aqua Therapy, Aquatic Therapy and many more. It is especially helpful in cases where a land-based exercise program is not possible due to the intensity of pain, decreased bone density, disability or other factors. The water temperature is usually 33 –37ºC.

How does it differ from swimming?

Usually we refer to swimming as a sport or as a recreational activity. While swimming is very beneficial, not all patients are at this level.

Hydrotherapy is a form of medical treatment of diseases through the use of water. Water based exercises for musculoskeletal conditions are usually less painful than land based

What are the benefits of hydrotherapy?

The warm temperature and sensory input from the water pressure allows your muscles to relax and eases the pain in your joints. This makes it easier to exercise and desired exercise intensity can be  achieved.

The water buoyancy supports your body weight. This reduces stress on joints and muscles that helps to exercise with an increased range of movements. By pushing your arms and legs against the water you can also improve your muscle strength, co-ordination and balance.

Who benefits most from hydrotherapy?

• Arthritis in several joints, fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sports injuries; muscle strain or tears, Acute/chronic
• Acute or chronic back and neck pain
• Poor  trunk stability, Poor Balance and stability
• Neurological disorders  e.g. Stroke, Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis
• Post-operative conditions e.g. joint replacement, spinal surgery, rotator cuff repair. Immobility following fracture healing
• Obesity

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Dry needling

Intra Muscular Dry Needling (IMDN)

What is Intra Muscular Dry Needling (IMDN) ?

Dry needling is an invasive procedure whereby solid filament (acupuncture) needles are inserted into the skin and muscle directly at a myofascial trigger point, which are related to the production and maintenance of the pain cycle.

The approach is based on Western anatomical & neurophysiological principles which are not to be confused with the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) technique of acupuncture (Travell & Simons 1999).

What can Intra Muscular Dry Needling (IMDN) help?

Dry needling can be used for a variety of Chronic / Acute musculoskeletal problems. Muscles are thought to be a primary contributing factor to the symptoms. Conditions which respond to dry needling include, but are not limited to:

• Headaches

• Frozen Shoulder

• Tennis elbow

• Carpal tunnel syndrome

• Golfer's elbow

• Buttock pain

• Leg pain

• Hamstring strains

• Shin splints

• Muscle Spasms

• Fibromyalgia

• Sciatic Pain

• Hip Pain

• Knee Pain

• Repetitive Strain Injuries

How does Intra Muscular Dry Needling (IMDN) work?

There are mechanical and biomechanical can cause favorable biochemical changes which assist in reducing pain. It is essential to elicit a Local Twitch Response which is a spinal cord reflex and is the first step in breaking the pain cycle.

How does Intra Muscular Dry Needling (IMDN) stop this cycle?

A spasmed muscle becomes a damaged muscle. Spasm reduces blood flow in the muscle. This means less oxygen and nutrients to the muscle. Muscle fibres die off and get replaced by fibrous scar tissue. This in turn holds the muscle tight, prevents muscle metabolites from leaving the muscle and causes continued spasm and pain.

Putting a needle into a spasmed muscle causes the muscle to relax, this can be seen with an electromyogram (EMG).

Where does Intra Muscular Dry Needling (IMDN) fit in the entire rehabilitation programme?

More frequently, dry needling is needed at the beginning to help break the pain cycle  or change instantaneous muscle tension then other treatment modalities are introduced.

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Chronic Pain Management

What is Chronic pain?

Chronic pain is defined as pain that has lasted longer than three to six months.

How Can we help?

Complete and sustained remission of many neuropathies and most idiopathic chronic pain (pain that extends beyond the expected period of healing, or chronic pain that has no known underlying pathology) is rarely achieved, but much can be done to reduce suffering and improve quality of life via our Pain Management  Method.

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