Pulmonary Physiotherapy

Hello everybody!

I am Dr. Ankita Grover, Cardio-Pulmonary Physiotherapist at Xcell Physiocare Pvt. Ltd. These days as you all know that the pollution levels are rising in India and especially when we talk about Delhi NCR, the situation is even worse. There are many respiratory problems that are associated with pollution and which is causing problems to the patients such as COPD, asthma, emphysema, pneumonia etc. All these are the problem very common that you will be able to find around your surroundings. This is not only creating diseases but it is also causing patients to frequently go to the hospital. And hospital admission rates have gone up, their medication usage has gone up which is creating internal side effects for them.

So, what we at Xcell have come up with is state of the art physio or pulmonary-physio specialised labs that we have set up here and it is properly dedicated to lung rehabilitation in India. It is first of its kind in Delhi NCR and it is properly dedicated to all the lung issues that you are facing. Now coming over to what we do at Xcell Physiocare. Our first start of the treatment before the treatment is the patient screening part and the assessment part that whenever the patient comes to us we access him thoroughly through the screening test and through our specialised scales that we use. We focus on proper assessment of the patient then after the assessment is done we chart some goals for the patient.

We frame some targets for him to achieve so that symptoms are reduced and his problems related to lung issues instead of getting worse, they lower down. After framing the goals for the patient, we start a customised treatment plan and that plan is according to the patients situation. It's like ABC, A part is your assessment, B is your goal formation and C is your customised treatment plan. Now coming to our treatment plan we are having certain specialised part of pulmonary and lung rehabilitation at our setup. Firstly we focus on airway clearance techniques. Now airways clearance techniques is something which is something very important for any patient who is having a lung issue. Their airways are blocked may be due to any kind of situation, be it asthama, maybe it is Bronchitis. So our motto is to clear their airways and for that we are having specialised devices in our setup and through them, we help in getting clearance techniques.

Secondly we have focus on breathing exercises of the patient which is very important because many of the patient that come up to a centre are either complaining of shortness of breath which we call Dyspnea in medical terms and they are not able to breathe properly or even if they are breathing the breath is very shallow. We focus on training their breathing and make them do breathing exercises. Now breathing exercises and not just the exercises that we do teaching them manually but we also have devices here which specially train the respiratory muscles of the patients. You all have heard about muscle training through equipments, the body muscle training through various equipments for exercises but when it comes to respiratory muscle training I think India is far behind compared to the western countries.

We have dedicatedly planned an inspiratory muscle training program also for the patients so that we can increase their inspiratory and expiratory muscle strength which is very important for their lung rehabilitation program. Coming over the third aspect that we deal is their overall increased energy levels and that will come through their increased strength, their increase stamina or endurance and this is done through our gym section which we have at our set up at Xcell Physiocare. We also train the patients through specialised equipment that we have had for strength and conditioning as well as for endurance. This is all how our Xcell Physiocare pulmonary setup is. I have just given you an introduction about it and I would like you all to come and visit us and also I would like to you to know that on your first visit we have a special free consultation offer going for you for this month. So please do make a visit and let us know about your experience.

Thank You!