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ZAITOON MANZOOR MALOO

Specialty:

Chief Physiotherapist

Training / Schooling:

GS Medical College
Parel ,Bombay, India
B.Sc PT, IAP

Certificates and qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Physiotherapy
Bombay University Qualified in 1984

Zaitoon has been our Chief Physiotherapist for the past 7 years. She enjoys her job and says she gets great pleasure when pain is relieved and patients are fully functional in their activities of daily living. Her specialty is in neck & back pain and she helps children with Erb's palsy and cerebral palsy.
She says she is very thankful to God to be able to serve in a mission hospital.
She is fluent in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujrati, and some Arabic, which she learned in Bahrain.

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MARIA GLENDA BARHACENA

Specialty:

Physiotherapist

Training / Schooling:

Bachelors of science in Physical therapy(B.Sc PT)
Iligan Medical center collage
Iligan city, Philippines.

Certificates and qualifications:

Jose Reyes Memorial Medical center, Metro-Manila, Philippines.
Elk's Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Center, Philippines.
Armed forces of the Philippines.

Glenda has been working as a physical therapist with the AMH team for two and a half years now and she says that working here in AMH is a blessing from God.

"Rehabilitation is a complex process to both the therapist and the patient. A therapist's goal is to restore the individual to his/her optimal functional status at home and in the community", says Glenda.

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Physiotherapy is a support service, which assists the medical service in dealing with various aspects of treatment; rehabilitation and prevention of disorders utilizing exercise therapy and electrotherapy procedures. We help to relieve pain, rehabilitate muscles, improve spinal alignment and increase mobility.

Therapists are trained to treat the symptoms of injury and disease by physical means such as heat and pressure.
When a doctor recommends a patient for physiotherapy, the therapist evaluates the patient and plans a line of treatment.

In our hospital, we use a combination of 2 or more treatments lasting for 45- minutes - 1 hour on an alternate day basis for 5-10 sessions. In case of acute injury like wryneck, we give treatment on a daily basis for 3-5 sessions.

The common electro therapy modalities used in our hospital are:-
· Ultra sound - US
· Infra red radiation - IRR
· Paraffin wax bath - PWB
· Hot packs / cold packs
· Microwave diathermy - MWD
· Laser therapy: -
Electrical stimulation - Faradic
Galvanic - / Interrupted galvanic
TENS
Interferential - IFT
· Traction - Cervical / lumbar
· Massage

In exercise therapy we cover general exercise in mobility and strengthening co-coordinated exercise, Ambulation, Gait training, Antenatal / Postnatal exercises and manual muscle testing.
We cover chest physiotherapy for both IP and OPD with deep breathing exercises, postural drainage, pre / post of care and rehabilitation exercises.

Three types of patients utilize our services
1. Patients referred by our general physicians, surgeons and orthopedic surgeons.
2. Patients from private specialists and consultants from other hospitals
3. Direct patients i.e. patients with chronic illness such as arthritis etc. who have repeated attacks and others with simple sports injuries and strains.

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