08Mar

A Day in The Life of a Woman Physiotherapist
Every year, International women’s day is observed on March 8. It highlights the contributions made by women to society in a variety of sectors. It serves as a rallying point for a society that values diversity, equity, and inclusion while eliminating prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination.   Embrace equity has been chosen as the theme for International women’s day this year. It emphasizes the fact that  “Equity isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have.” Understanding the distinction between equity and equality is also crucial. The International Women’s Day 2023 #Embrace Equity …
27Feb

Neurological Physiotherapy – A Day In The Life
The depth of physical therapy can be compared to that of an ocean, deep and diverse. For an average man, the first thing that comes to mind when he hears the word physiotherapy is usually a job that deals with musculoskeletal conditions. Still, little do they know that that’s not the only field a therapist can specialize in. Physiotherapy is a healthcare profession concerned with human function and movement and maximizing physical potential. Physical potential can be reduced in individuals who suffer from a wide variety of diseases, hence, there …
20Feb

Physiotherapy – An Athlete’s Saving Grace
By far, the most in-demand field of physiotherapy is sports. The most common dream of physiotherapy students is to work with high-level athletes or teams. Sports and Exercise Physiotherapists are involved in the prevention and management of injuries resulting from sports and exercise participation at all ages and all levels of ability. These specialized physiotherapists provide evidence-based advice on safe participation in sports and exercise.  The job is daunting but incredible and special in so many ways. Without a doubt, the stakes are high for these athletes – missing a …
14Feb

Revolutionize Your Physiotherapy Clinic with Ashva: Quick, Accurate, and Affordable Assessments
Physiotherapy clinics have multiple hurdles to face. If you’re part of one, you’ve probably faced those issues. From assessment timings to appointment durations, results, and progress documentation to diagnosis based on what may sometimes be insufficient information, you don’t want to add more to this mess. In such scenarios, your equipment can be your biggest friend. This is where Ashva comes to your aid. We at Ashva, have two primary products – Fitknees and Fitmust. While they have their individual uses and benefits, here’s why you should invest in them …
06Feb

An Overview of High-Intensity Functional Training (HIFT): Benefits, Limitations and Applications in Sports Performance
A set of attributes that people have or achieve relating to their ability to perform physical activity is called physical fitness. (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services). Fitness can be broadly categorized into two categories; health-related fitness (body composition, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, endurance, muscular endurance, and muscle strength) and skill-related fitness (agility, balance, coordination, power, speed, and reaction time). An individual must have the required skill sets, physical prerequisites, mental focus, and motivation to excel in any activity. In many ways, the person who succeeds in their particular sport …
06Feb

How Ashva is Transforming Physiotherapy with Data-Driven Solutions
The start of any great thing begins with an unsolved problem or approach that affects hundreds of people every day. A fancy way to describe problem statements, right? But to some people, it’s not just any problem. Before we at Ashva began our journey, our founder Anmol Saxena was recovering from a knee condition. Exposed to the lack of data in physiotherapy, she was appalled by how many people felt dissatisfied during their rehabilitation.   That’s where the first steps in making a difference were taken. Ashva Tech was founded …
30Jan

Evidence Based Practice(EBP) in Physiotherapy
If you’re not assessing, you’re just guessing. Assessment is a delicate step-by-step process to interview and examine a patient to come to a provisional diagnosis. Simply put, assessment is the foundation of a therapist’s treatment and clinical decision-making. It is a skillful series of steps used to understand the current physical state of an individual. Assessment can also be defined as the synthesis of clinical findings into a clear understanding of presenting conditions that in turn facilitate the construction of a treatment protocol. The importance of assessment and evaluation is …
23Jan

Journey of Fitmust Development
Today, Fitmust is one of Ashva’s best and most efficient products, taking affordable and quantitative physiotherapy to the next level. However, the road to its development was just like any other – slow, uneasy and frustrating. For a company focusing on making physiotherapy data-driven, we were borderline exhausted by how fruitless our research was turning out to be at the very beginning. It began with the very first prototype of Fitknees and the assessment of Surface EMG technology, which is presently used for neural health testing. But after multiple experiments …
16Jan

Bringing Knee Examination to Easy-Ville
Does your knee pain dictate your heart and soul at times? Does your knee look and feel terrifying just like this? If so, then your knee urgently needs to be examined by a professional. Essentially, a perfect knee examination doesn’t exist, or does it? Come on, let’s be realistic, no, it doesn’t. But what we can do, is bring it pretty damn close. What does a knee examination require? For starters, it requires a keen sense of observation and sensitive palpation skills to identify the problem, or specifically, what is …
09Jan

Physiotherapy Assessment – The Foundation of Clinical Decision Making
Assessment is a delicate step-by-step process to interview and examine a patient to come to a provisional diagnosis. To put it simply, assessment is the foundation of a therapist’s treatment and clinical decision-making. The process of assessment begins with a polite self-introduction followed by an open-ended question such as What seems to be the problem? or What brings you to the hospital/clinic today? This is known as a patient interview. After carefully listening to their problem, a clinician moves on to the next steps of assessment which are – 1. …
19Dec

How Evidence Based Physiotherapy Helps in Better Treatment
“Your recovery is going well. Your knee should be normal by another two weeks.” “According to our Short Form-36 report, your recovery score is at 75*, which means we can expect your knee to be normal by the end of another two weeks.” Imagine you’re the patient and you hear your physio say either of these two sentences. Which one would you prefer to listen to? Which one is more assuring and seemingly trustworthy? Most people would choose the second one. The difference? Data and metrics served as evidence of …
12Dec

Hand-Held Dynamometer – Physiotherapy’s Finest Ally
One of the most widely used methods of assessing muscle strength is Manual Muscle Testing, which gives a physiotherapist a general understanding of how weak a patient’s muscle is. But what it fails to do, is to provide a clinician with a numeric quantification with which the muscle thrusts. Although being a standard clinical evaluation tool, its reliability and validity are highly questionable. The limitations of MMT arise from the nature of the procedure used as the tester must provide external resistance, which may vary considerably between testers. MMT also …

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