specialities
Ergonomics
The Greek word “Ergo” means “work” and “nomos” means “laws”. Ergonomics is focuses on the study of work performance with an emphasis on worker safety and productivity. I am specialized in Ergonomic Methods to assess levels of musculoskeletal discomfort among workers: NIOSH discomfort surveys, the Dutch Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (DMQ), University of Michigan Upper Extremity Questionnaire (UMUEQ), Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Survey, Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ), Postural evaluation tools: PLIBEL, Quick Exposure Checklist (QEC), Postural evaluation tools: PLIBEL, Quick Exposure Checklist (QEC), Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA), Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA), The Strain Index, Methods for assessing back injury risks: Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation, Snook tables, Measurement of work effort and fatigue: Borg Ratings of Perceived Exertion scale, Muscle Fatigue Assessment method, The Occupational Repetitive Action (OCRA) Methods: OCRA Index and OCRA Checklist, Assessment of Exposure to Manual Patient Handling in Hospital Wards: MAPO Index (Movement and Assistance of Hospital Patients) and safe ergonomic recommendation for reducing the risk of WRMSD’s and improving the productivity. Also conducting ergonomic awareness programmes to the public, employees and the professionals working in the field of ergonomics.
MSD Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation of Musculoskeletal Disorders, e.g., Myofascial Pain Syndrome, Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI or Computer Related Injuries), Thorasic outlet syndrome, Tennis elbow, Cubital tunnel syndrome, Carpel tunnel syndrome, Wrist tendonitis, De Quervain's tenosynovitis, Mechanical Low Back Pain, Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome, Sports Injuries, Chronic Pain Conditions like Fibromyalgia, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Arthritis using a special protocol called SHARAN’S® Protocol for RSI (Skilled Hands-on Approach for Release of myofascia, Articular, Neural and Soft-tissue mobilisation)
Paediatric Rehabilitation
RECOUP Paediatric Rehabilitation Centre is doing functional rehabilitation of spastic children/ Cerebral Palsy children using a unique procedure called SEMLARASS (Single Event Multi-level Lever Arm Restoration and Anti Spasticity Surgery) and followed by a supervised and intensive rehabilitation protocol developed by RECOUP’s experts.
The principles on the surgery includes one event of Surgery/anesthesia includes multilevels of surgery in the extremities using Dr. Takashi Matsuo’s Orthopaedic Selective Spasticity Control Surgery (OSSCS) for spasticity and Simultaneous correction of lever arm dysfunction (e.g., hip subluxation/disloccation, femoral anteversion, tibial torsion, hindfoot valgus) as proposed by Dr. James Gage. Some new surgical procedures to correct lever arm dysfunction have been developed by us at RECOUP, Bangalore (e.g.: VDRO)
The intensive post-operative rehabilitation protocol includes Manual therapy techniques like myotherapy, articular mobilization, neural mobilization, trigger point therapy, ischeamic compression, positioinal release therapy (PRT), muscle energy technique (MET), PNF, core stabilization exercises, FES (functional electrical stimulation), suspended treadmill training, aquatic therapy, hippotherapy, pilates, tai chi etc.
RECOUP Paediatric Rehabilitation Centre also deals with other conditions like CTEV, spina bifida, CDH, erb’s palsy, attention deficit disorder, autism, speech disorders, delayed milestones etc.
