All of us undergo the natural process of aging. As this journey of aging begins, one may experience impairment of hearing and eyesight, pain in joints, particularly in the knee, hip and shoulder joints, pain in muscles, restricted movements due to wear and tear of joints and disability. Aging isn’t limited to physical changes, but also emotional and mental changes. It would be accurate to quote these changes as challenges, since these changes often lead to problems, causing hindrances in one’s daily routine. One of the major problems is decreased movements due to stiffness in joints and body ache. Routine activities like walking, bathing, and eating become painful and difficult.

Aging brings with it a myriad of problems like:

• Stiffness in joints due to breakage in joint cartilage (osteoarthritis)
• Weakness in bones leading to osteopenia or osteoporosis
• Auto-immune arthritis
• Complications arising from cancer
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Pain after undergoing joint surgery
• Parkinson’s disease, strokes.
• Diseases related to neuro-muscular coordination, like multiple sclerosis
• Symptoms of dizziness and vertigo which may indicate vestibular disorders
• Increase in weight due to restricted physical activity
• Risks of injury due to fall.  
• Fatigue

The good news is- all these problems are addressed and treated by Dr. Nitish Kumar through geriatric rehabilitation physiotherapy!

A glance at the effectiveness of Geriatric Rehabilitation

According to various scientific research and studies, geriatric physiotherapy is effective in improving mobility, balance, and strength thereby offering a quality life and better standard of living for the aged. Geriatric physiotherapy has been effective in significantly improving the life expectancy around the world as well; by its focussed approach on limiting the effects of aging on the human body. It aims to maintain the independence of the elderly in their functional and neuro-muscular capacities, thereby boosting self-confidence among the elderly. Through geriatric rehabilitation physiotherapy, one can maintain their physical strength, muscular flexibility, joint flexibility. It also deals with improving endurance, weakness, and also effectively reduces fatigue, cramps, and pain.

Dr. Nitish Kumar’s Geriatric Rehabilitation Physiotherapy Centre takes a personalized and focussed approach towards maintaining and improving the physical health and wellness of the elderly by targeting strength, flexibility and agility of the patients thereby leading to significant improvement through means of physiotherapy, improving the overall quality of life and ease of living.

Speech-Language Pathology at Dr. Nitish Kumar’s Physiotherapy Centre

These problems of aging aren’t limited to physical conditions, but may also cause problems in speech, language, and memory. To name a few, one may develop:

• Aphasia
• Dementia,
• Communication disorder  
• Difficulty in swallowing etc.

The physiotherapy center offers Speech-Language Therapy to improve these functions by designing a specific and targeted program to conform to the needs of the patient. The program includes exercises and strategies to improve memory and other mental or neuro-muscular functions. At Dr. Nitish Kumar’s Physiotherapy Centre, each patient receives a personalized treatment which shall be designed to target or tackle the problems the aged thereby fulfilling the needs of a patient, to provide for physical, mental and emotional wellness.

Geriatric Nutrition

Geriatric Rehabilitation Physiotherapy also focuses on the diet of the geriatrics. During the process of aging, one must take all the essential nutrients viz. vitamins for neuro-muscular coordination, proteins to maintain muscles and minerals for bone strengthening in order to limit the effects of aging on joints, muscles, eyesight, memory etc. The aged need a systemized diet chart which conforms to their needs and targets their problems.
The Centre creates a personalized diet chart for each patient in order to provide for a treatment which targets all the important functions of the human body, thereby ensuring complete balance across all the departments of the human body.

At Dr. Nitish Kumar’s Physiotherapy Centre, each patient is provided with a personalized holistic treatment which fulfills the needs of the patient and improves their overall health and wellness.

Call us now to fix your appointment at Dr. Nitish Kumar’s Physiotherapy Centre, the solution to all your geriatric problems!