Physical Med. & Rehabilitation

Vision

Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PMR) at AIIMS, Rishikesh is one of the pioneer Rehabilitation Centre in the region where comprehensive medical and rehabilitation services are available to restore an individual’s condition to the maximum possible level of functioning in consideration with the medical condition vis-a-vis environmental factors.

Mission

We focus to improves the quality of life of the patient through a dynamic team oriented approach. The traditional medical approach aims “adding years to life” while PMR with the functional model accomplishes “adding life to years”.

Contact us

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR), AIIMS, Rishikesh – 249203
e-mail: pmr@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in, raj.pmr@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in

Faculty

Photo	Name & Qualifications	Designation	Areas of Interest	Email ID / ORCID ID / Research-gate Page
	Dr Raj Kumar Yadav MBBS, MD(PMR)	Additional Professor & Head	Clinical :- Neurorehabilitation, Disability - awareness, limitation & management Research :- Neurorehabilitation, Gait and Motion Analysis, Plantar Pressure Analysis	raj.pmr@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9911-6198 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rajkumar_Yadav9

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Name & Qualifications

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Email ID / ORCID ID / Research-gate Page

Dr Raj Kumar Yadav

MBBS, MD(PMR)

Additional Professor & Head

Clinical :-

Neurorehabilitation, Disability - awareness, limitation & management

Research :-

Neurorehabilitation, Gait and Motion Analysis, Plantar Pressure Analysis

raj.pmr@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9911-6198
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rajkumar_Yadav9

Photo	Name & Qualifications	Designation	Areas of Interest	Email ID / ORCID ID / Research-gate Page

Services

Outpatients department:

General OPD: Daily in Room No. 031102, 031116 (G23 & G22, C Block)
- The department provides Medical and Rehabilitation services to persons with:
- Chronic musculoskeletal pain, Sports injuries
- Neurological conditions – Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Polio, Myopathy, Neuropathy, Motor Neuron Disease, Parkinsonism and other Movement disorders
- Paediatric Neurological conditions– Cerebral Palsy (CP), Myopathy
- Diabetic foot, Amputation
- Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Burn Rehabilitation, Cancer Rehabilitation and others
Rehabilitation therapy: our Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Multi rehabilitation workers are well trained for providing therapy to our patients. Department is well equipped with all the basic rehabilitation equipment and modality machines like SWD, Ultrasonic, LASER, TENS, Cryotherapy
Orthotic & Prosthetic workshop: fabricating various customized braces, callipers and artificial limbs and providing these at a very subsidized rate to the persons with special needs

In-patients department: Department has indoor services with 6 beds in B1 area, 4^TH floor mainly for the management of paraplegic, hemiplegic and quadriplegic patients

Procedures (Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic) offered by the department

Special services offered by the department:
- Interventions for pain management: Doctors at the department are specialized in giving intra-articular and soft tissue injections, nerve blocks either under ultrasound guidance or through blind technique.
- Advance Robotic Rehabilitation: The Robotic devices with Virtual Reality System and Biofeedback are usedin our department for the recovery and rehabilitation of Quadriplegic, Paraplegic, Hemiplegicpatients even in early phase when they do not have any motor power.
- Virtual Reality Rehabilitation System: used for upper limb coordination, balance training and cognitive training
- Gait and Motion Analysis Lab
- Plantar Pressure Analysis System
- Prosthetic Modelling, Data Acquisition & Fabrication System
- we are fabricating various advanced customized braces, calipers and artificial limbs with advance 3D Printing technique and providing these at a very subsidized rate to persons with special needs.

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Courses & Short term Trainings

Name of the course	Curriculum	Duration of course	Present number of students	Objectives/ brief description of the course
MD (PMR)		3 Years	6	To provide Medical & Rehabilitation interventions of high standard in an ethical manner as expected under different clinical settings, during the phase of acute care, in the setting of hospitals even at district and sub-district levels and in the chronic stage to deal with individual impairments, disability and functional limitation at the community level

Research

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Collaboration

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Expansion plan

Expansion planned for the future:

Clinical Services:
- Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Lab for Rehab training of patients with Cardiac and Pulmonary problems
- Vocational Guidance & Training Centre, Rural Rehabilitation Services
- Surgeries– Planning to expand surgical services for patient like cerebral palsy, post-polioresidual paralysis, peripheral nerve injuries in future
Academics and teaching
- Start certificate course in Robotics, 3D Printing, Motion analysis
Research: