Neurological Physiotherapy Services

Gait Training is a type of physiotherapy regimenmeant to help improve your ability of patients to stand and walk again, mostly after diagnosing any serious neurological condition which leads to weakness of Lower Limbs. This therapy is provided to people who suffer from disability due to stroke/hemiplegia, hemiparesis, cerebellar disorders, Parkinson’s disease, muscular dystrophies. It is also provided to children with difficulty in learning to walk. It aims to boost support for body weight over lower limbs, strengthen muscles, improve posture,and boost functional independence. Physiotherapists’ must support and encourage patient and make sure patients don’t lose confidence over inability to walk. Gait training sometimes also involves use of assistive devices like: –

• Stick, Tripod or Quad Stick
• Elbow Crutches
• Walkers
• Orthotic Devices like Ankle Foot Orthosis, Push Knee Braces, Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis (KAFO), Hip KAFO.Calipers

These aids are prescribed based on the assessment by an expert Physiotherapist. With the Above aids, Extensive Physiotherapy Exercise training like Lower Limb Strengthening, Endurance, Range of Motion Exs, Balance Training, Obstacle Walking etc.
In gait training Physiofit prescribes exercisesto patients depending on per their age and disability. Our Expert physiotherapists provide gait training to patients with type, intensity, and duration depending on specific diagnosis of each patient.

This is a Type of Bed which is automatically makes the patient stand with the help of Belts. This bed is usually given to those patients who are unable to stand up on their own, unable to weight bear on their own. Hence they are given a standing weight bearing position on their legs with the help of this table.
Benefits:

• Improve weight bearing of the lower limbs.
• Carry out task using their upper limbs
• Off loads
• Increase Ventilation,
• Increase Arousal,
• Improve weight bearing of the lower limbs.
• Facilitate antigravity exercise of the limbs.
• Sense of well being

Virtual Gaming Rehab or Exergaming is a process which combines Gaming Technology and Physical Therapy. There are multiple gadgets of active gaming video games which involves using of Upper Limb and Lower Limb active muscles to perform game based movement tasks Studies show that interactive Games can boost up to do functional task at a much faster rate than conventional Physiotherapy.
Benefits:

1. Provides Fun Interaction and Relive Stress levels
2. Cardio Vascular Benefits
3. Sensory Motor Training (Eyes Open/Eyes Closed Training)
4. Endurance Training
5. Improves Reaction Time
6. Planning, Multi-Tasking and Problem Solving Skills
7. Improves Cognitive skills
8. Helps to overcomes Challenges, enables Competitiveness and motivation to become better.

At Physiofit, we combine the use of Physiotherapy Functional Exercises and Gaming Technology in order to gain maximum out of the patient.

Electronic Muscle Stimulation is type of Physiotherapy treatment which helps you to strengthen your weak muscles. In several Musculoskeletal and Neurological conditions, muscles become weak which leads to poor function and recovery. In such cases, Electronic Muscle stimulation is given to muscle to improve their strength. This therapy used extensively when the muscles are not able to perform anti-gravity exercises.
In some neurological conditions like paralysis and neuropathies, this technique could be helpful in the recruitment of the nerve conduction rates. This contraction pattern becomes your “memory engram”. The more frequent your muscle is recruited the better your body becomes at finding the quickest way to recruit that muscle. EMS can potentially provide you with repeated contractions to accelerate this learning process.

A Functional Electric Stimulation is a small device which helps in delivering the current to activate the movements in functional movements like walking or stair climbing or gripping. In certain cases like foot drop, the device is usually worn in a cuff below the knee. This is where the electrodes can stimulate the nerve that goes to the muscle that would normally lift the front of your foot. At the right moment in your gait, when your foot is about to lift up to be swung forwards, the FES device stimulates the nerve and lifts the foot.
The stimulation stops when the foot hits the ground again. It may take some time to adjust the timing specifically for you and your gait. Some FES devices have a sensor that is worn in the heel area, to help with the timing, but in modern devices that is optional.
At Physiofit, we aim to Regain Physical Independence, With the help of such technology and our expertise, we are able to make the patient functionally independent.