Umasankar Mohanty
B.P.T (Hons), M.P.T (Manual Therapy), S.R.P (London), PhD, M.I.S.E.P, M.I.A.P, F.A.G.E
He has Completed his Bachelors degree in Physiotherapy from Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research, Cuttack, Orissa and completed Masters In Manipulative Therapy from Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal. He has completed his Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) from Mangalore University in 2012. He has been trained further under faculties of Loma Linda University( USA), Orthopedic Medicine International ( Belgium), University of Queensland(Australia), Charted Society of Physiotherapy (UK), British College of Osteopathic Medicine(London) and McConnell’s Institute(Australia). He is one of the renowned academic stalwarts well known in the world primarily in the field of Manipulative Physiotherapy. With a focused vision to empower the skills of Physiotherapists he founded Manual Therapy Foundation of India(www.mtfi.net) continuing till date as the President.So far he has trained and shared the broad horizon of manipulative therapy to more than Ten thousand Physiotherapists across the globe. The trained Physios are nationalities of India, Philippines, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Russia,Bangladesh, Dubai, Sharjah, Iran, Pakistan, Denmark, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Korea, U.S.A and U.K. He is visiting faculty to Edutrack Physiotherapy Events, (Dubai), Integrated Manual Physical Therapy,Manila(Philippines), Sri lankan Society of Physiotherapy(Sri Lanka), Manual Therapy, Sri lanka; Bangaladesh Federation of Orthopedic Manipulative Therapists, Dhaka; F.I.T, Faridabad,Lovely Professional University, Punjab, Ahmedabad Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad; RVS College of Physiotherapy, Coimbatore; S.B.B. College of Physiotherapy, Ahmedabad, S.P.B College of Physiotherapy, Surat, Rajiv Gandhi College of Physiotherapy, Bhopal and College of Physiotherapy and Medical Sciences, Guwahati. He has excellent background and reputation as a Manual Therapy teacher as per the feedback of the participants. He has presented several research papers in Manual Therapy at National and Internatonal level conferences. He is also the Editorial board member of Indian Association of Physiotherapists. was Scientific Convenor for the IAP Conferences at Mangalore 2010 and Pune 2011. He is recepient of Prestigious IAP oration Award at Pune IAP conference 2011. He is author of the book “ Manual Therapy of the Pelvic Complex”. He has developed a new technique for the soft tissue palpation called as Mohanty Flat palpation grades. He is a editorial board member of Physiotimes magazine (www.physiotimes.com)and a regular writer for the magazine. Organisation Activities
He was the Organising Chairman of 50th Golden Jubilee conference of The Indian Association of Physiotherapists held at New Delhi from 16th-18th March, 2012.He also organized the 1st World Congress on Manual Therapy,2007(WCOMT07) at Mangalore as the Organising Secretary and the 2nd World Congress on Manual Therapy at Dhaka, Bangladesh,2009 (WCOMT09) on 17th and 18th April,2009 as the Organising Chairman with splendid and commendable success.
