Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, often called physiatry, focuses on helping people regain abilities lost because of illness, injury, or a medical condition.

Physiatry takes a complete approach to recovery by combining different types of care to restore the overall well-being of patients. It looks after their physical health, emotional state, medical issues, work potential, and social life. A physician trained in this area is known as a physiatrist. Rehabilitation helps people regain their highest ability to function, live, and enjoy a good quality of life. It does not fix or undo the harm caused by illness or injury. Instead, it focuses on returning the person to their best possible health, abilities, and overall well-being. To rehabilitate means to make capable.

Rehabilitation medicine focuses on meeting the unique needs of each individual. This means every program is tailored to the person. Common parts of rehab programs often include:

• Addressing the main illness and stopping complications
• Working on disabilities to improve abilities
• Offering tools that make tasks easier and changing living spaces
• Guiding patients and their families to adjust to new life changes

Rehab works well when multiple factors come together, such as:

• How severe or advanced the disease, disorder, or injury is
• The kind and level of impairments or disabilities it causes
• How healthy the patient is overall
• Support offered by the family

What Sets Our Department Apart

The department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at KIMSHEALTH stands out in this region for several reasons, including:

• Wide-ranging Multidisciplinary Support: A dedicated team of trained physiatrists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, rehab nurses, clinical psychologists, as well as prosthetists and orthotists, work together to offer complete and seamless care to treat patients.
• Focused Neurorehabilitation Services: Special programs aim to address complex neurological conditions through tailored approaches. Rehabilitation programs focus on helping people recover and reintegrate after issues like stroke, spinal injuries, brain trauma, or progressive nerve problems. The goal is to support functional improvement.
• Advanced Interventional Rehabilitation Services: This department has cutting-edge tools to perform ultrasound-guided treatments. It handles joint and tissue injections, nerve blocks, and Botox therapy to relieve pain and control spasticity. With modern equipment in use, safety and quality remain priorities when delivering these treatments.
• Personalised Assistive Technology and Mobility Solutions: Experts offer tailored orthotics, prosthetics, and a variety of adaptive devices to improve mobility and independence. Including customised wheelchair and seating setups to boost movement and promote independence.
• Personalised Therapy Plans with Practical Goals: Rehabilitation plans focused on daily life activities, work-related abilities, and overall quality of life.
• Rehabilitation Centered Around Families: The team holds regular meetings with families and caregivers to set mutual goals, teach necessary skills, and help patients adjust to life at home or in their communities.
• Recreational Therapy and Support for Mental Health: Therapy includes group activities, recreation-based sessions, and social events to enhance emotional health, drive, and involvement in recovery.
• Focus on Academics and Research: Active participation in research, training programs for faculty clinical education, CME programs, and creating evidence-based protocols. • Acute Neuro Rehabilitation Workshops: State-level conferences. • Hosted multiple camps and providing prosthetics.
• Helping Patients Reintegrate into Communities: Focus on planning post-discharge care, training caregivers, offering vocational advice, and ensuring follow-up for steady improvement.

Treatments and Procedures Available

• Rehabilitation after stroke
• Recovery programs for traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
• Rehabilitation for spinal cord injuries
• Acute and critical care recovery
• Support for Parkinson’s disease or other degenerative neurological conditions
• Therapy for patients with multiple sclerosis
• Treatment for Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation
• Managing Pain with Interventional Techniques
• Using methods like ultrasound-guided infiltrations, nerve blocks, prolotherapy, Botox, and hyaluronidase injections.
• Paediatric Rehabilitation
• Cardiopulmonary Recovery Programs
• Support and Therapy for amputees
• Services involving Orthotics and Assistive Technologies
• Pelvic Floor Therapy and incontinence Care
• Therapy targeting Rheumatological Disorders
• Programs to train and assist with Vocational Development
• Rehabilitation designed for elderly Patients
• Rehabilitation aimed at Cancer Recovery

Available Facilities and Tools

Several advanced tools and facilities are offered by the department.

• Units focused on Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy
• Use of Physical Modalities
• Ultrasound treatment, Shockwave therapy, LASER technology, and Neuro Muscular Electrical Stimulation are some examples of available therapies.

Other advanced tools and equipment include:

• Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)
• Shoes with laser features
• Trainers for robotic gait rehabilitation
• Robotic devices for hand therapy
• Virtual reality systems for multi-limb movement training
• Rehabilitation systems using games for arm movement
• Trainers designed for leg and arm exercises
• Lifting and transferring devices
• Walkers and treadmills with body weight support
• Custom-seating wheelchairs
• Simulated spaces to practice daily activities
• Facilities for speech and swallowing therapy, including FES for swallowing
• Cognitive training setups
• Biofeedback systems for pelvic muscle therapy
• Peripheral Magnetic Stimulation tools
• KIMSHEALTH Limb Centre - Prosthetics and Orthotics Unit