Growing number of nuclear families in India are resulting in higher financial responsibilities, building up a compulsion for individuals to return to work as early as possible, following an injury or a recent surgery.
Home physiotherapy services are therefore, growing widely in use, across the country.
However, with the number of clients largely outnumbering licensed home physiotherapists in India, both fall into a mutual time management trap:
- Clients are not in a position to afford any delay in starting their home physiotherapy sessions, as it stiffens up their time management for self-care and possible work from home schedules further in the day.
- Home physiotherapists, on the other hand, have to juggle through increasing peak-hour traffic and rush against time, to manage situational delays relayed further from any one of the appointments in the day, like when a client goes to washroom due to sudden loose motions mid-way between the session. Vehicle parking inconveniences and time lags happening at security check-ins at complex housing societies also add to their time management pressure.
Sugar Den- The Physiotherapy Clinic, located at Janakpuri, in West Delhi and having service networks at Kankadbagh in Patna, at Bhanshankari 5th Stage in Bengaluru and at Kasturi Nagar in Bengaluru, sees solving this practical impendence as the key to improve value for money experiences for home physiotherapy clients, as well as for the home physiotherapy specialists.
The companion mode home physiotherapy service takes care of this issue, by introducing an additional, virtual, but real-time live interacting physiotherapist in each home physiotherapy session.
- For safety and confidentiality reasons, the client has to join the ‘companion’ physiotherapist’s live session from his or her own mobile, tablet or laptop and not through the visiting physiotherapist’s mobile, just before the start of the session:
- The companion physio does needful pre-checks with the client, until the assigned home physiotherapist reaches the client’s place, to achieve better outcomes through the scheduled session. A licensed female physiotherapist is the companion physio for a female client, who is essentially treated by a licensed female home physiotherapist only. The female companion physiotherapist is also looking through sessions, where a male physiotherapist is attending a female client, in the mandatory presence of the later’s legally adult, immediate family member, through the scheduled session.
- The companion physio continues to be available through the session, interacting and exchanging insights and inputs, to make the experience less ‘sedentary’ and monotonus for the client, as well as for the home physiotherapist. For confidentiality sake, the audio and video feeds from the client’s mobile or laptop is switched on, only when prompted for by the companion physiotherapist. However, clients and their respective physios can unmute and communicate with the companion physiotherapist, anytime during the session.
- At the end of each session, wherever the client or his or her family member is required to comply to the parting instructions of the visiting physiotherapist, for example, like shifting the client from chair to bed after sometime and then administering the the nebulizer, the companion physio continues to be available to ensure that the instruction is complied to properly. This helps the home physiotherapist to leave, to reach the next appointment location in time, while enhancing the efficiency of just accomplsihed session.
The companionship mode facility is complementary in the first appointment, which is essentially scheduled for conducting a detailed physiotherapy assessment only, for any new client.
One important fact worth mentioning here is that our companion mode home physiotherapy service no way puts any suspicion on the abilities of the licensed home visting physiotherapists, but as stated above, aims to create a compassionate environment for them and for their concerned clients simultaneously, to help them achieve their prospective therapeutic goals together as a team.
Explore available home physiotherapy appointments at Sugar Den- The Physiotherapy Clinic’s website now and book the same at or from near your pincode location in West Delhi, Bengaluru or Patna.
Clients residing at other locations in India, can explore our indiawide network of independently practicing licensed physiotherapists, at Start Exercises Club.
Second appointment onwards, when the therapeutic physio sessions are started, the facility can be opted for by the client at a nominal fees payable either on per session or per month basis.
Sugar Den- The Physiotherapy Clinic and Start Exercises Club are initiatives of New Delhi based Start Exercises Physiotherapy Services.
(*illustrative AI image created with Google Gemini and modified for this post)
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