Dr Aroosa Ashraf - Physiotherapist

03/10/2024

Physiotherapy Clinic by
Dr.Aroosa Ashraf Physiotherapist in Faisalabad offers personalized physiotherapy services to get you back to doing what you love.
What we treat:
✅Sports injuries
✅Frozen Shoulder
✅Back pain
✅Joint pain
✅Stroke
✅Post-surgical conditions
And more!
Clinic hours:
Every Monday to Saturday
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Qadir Medical Complex, people’s colony no 2 near Babar chowk,Faisalabad.
Schedule your appointment today!
Phone number:
0336-9602222

25/09/2024

A physiotherapist is a healthcare professional who specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of individuals with physical impairments, disabilities, or injuries that affect movement and function. The primary goal of physiotherapy is to restore, maintain, and promote optimal physical function and mobility through a variety of treatments, exercises, and techniques.

24/09/2024

🚨 Health alert 🚨
Feeling pain😣? Limited mobility😣? We can help 😊!
Physiotherapy Clinic by Dr.Aroosa Ashraf Physiotherapist in Faisalabad offers personalized physiotherapy services to get you back to doing what you love.
What we treat:
✅Sports injuries
✅Frozen Shoulder
✅Back pain
✅Joint pain
✅Stroke
✅Post-surgical conditions
And more!
Clinic hours:
Every Monday to Saturday
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Qadir Medical Complex, people’s colony no 2 near Babar chowk,Faisalabad.
Schedule your appointment today!
Phone number:
0336-9602222

11/06/2024

08/06/2024

Scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine that most often is diagnosed in adolescents. While scoliosis can occur in people with conditions such as cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy, the cause of most childhood scoliosis is not known. Most cases of scoliosis are mild, but some curves worsen as children grow .

As we get older, those tissues become less elastic and weaker, and they don't hold the stack of bones straight, which can lead to a curve in the spine. Additionally, a person with a physically demanding job, may develop more spine degeneration, which might develop into scoliosis.

Small curves usually don't cause problems. But a curve that gets worse can be bad for a person's health. Very large curves can damage the joints and cause arthritis of the spine. Large curves can make the ribs rub against the pelvis, causing pain.

Activities that overuse one side of the body are not recommended for people with scoliosis because they exacerbate the imbalance that's already occurring, due to the condition's asymmetrical effects, and can increase related muscle imbalance and postural deviation: golf, tennis, bowling, etc.

While Pilates may not cure or fix scoliosis, it will improve posture, elongate the spine, and uniformly develop tissue. As Pilates instructors, we prioritize the center of the body, or spine, and move out toward the periphery.

20/05/2024

Heat Stroke Precautions

26/07/2022

EXERCISE VS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

There is vast difference between these two terms, yet many people have the idea the two terms are the same.

Physical activity may involve any routine activity you do for survival which does not necessarily follow any structure or plan and it's also not guided by any principle. You do these things for other purposes either than for health benefits. You being able to cope with hard work such as running to farm, walking to school or work places doesn't make it an exercise but a physical activity.

According to the American College of Sports Medicine, Exercise is a planned, structured, bodily activity which is repetitive for the purpose of conditioning any body part, used to improve health, maintain physical fitness and is imperative as a means of physical rehabilitation.

Physical activity may be harmful sometimes to your body because it requires more energy and sometimes contradicts fails to adhere many existing health limitations. You may suffer from pains through physical activity, yet exercise rather gives more significant health benefits with little to no negative health impacts. Doing regular Exercise can:

➡️Promote flexibility
➡️Improve feeling of depression
➡️Help you in weight management
➡️Improve relaxation and sleep
➡️ Improve self-esteem
➡️Increase energy
➡️Promote cardiovascular health and prevents cardiovascular diseases.

21/07/2022

URINE LEAKAGE IN PREGNANCY| WOMEN’S HEALTH|

The hormonal changes and the extra weight of the baby puts strong pressure on the pelvic floor muscles. This stress result to a stretch in the muscles, weakening them and making them unable to control the sphincters.

In the same way, child birth is also another way to which your pelvic floor muscles can get weakened as a woman. Neglecting your pelvic floor muscles without strengthening them as a woman will therefore lead you to suffer bouts of urine and f***l leakages, and even prolapses.

This is because the pelvic floor muscles are layers of muscles, ligaments and soft tissues joined like a sling, supporting your bladder, bowel and uterus (womb). Just like any other muscle, the health of our pelvic floor depends a lot on movement to keep the soft tissues hydrated, elastic and strong. If your pelvic floor is neglected, it will inevitably lead to pelvic floor dysfunctions such as incontinence, or even womb prolapse, later on in life.

These muscles functionally hold the various organs in the pelvis in place and their weakness will
therefore result the individual into suffering bouts of prolapse after delivery or even urinary and f***l incontinence as earlier stated.

Meanwhile, for many woman who practice the best way these pelvic floor muscles can be strengthened have enough voluntary control over the various pelvis organs. As a result parturition becomes very easier and even peurperium time is shortened following delivery.

21/05/2022

Leg Cramps

03/03/2022

Fat Pad Syndrome

Fat pad syndrome is a common cause of anterior knee pain. This is a complication of infrapatellar fat pad (IFP). Infrapatellar fat pad is located in the anterior knee compartment under the patella. It is a protective mass of adipose tissue which separates patella from the thigh and shin bones. Infrapatellar fat pad is a dynamic structure. Fat pad syndrome occurs when the infrapatellar fat pad is impinged. The impingement can be very painful because the infrapatellar fat pad has a rich nerve supply.

🔵Common causes for fat pad syndrome are as follows.

🔹Sudden injury
🔹Chronic knee osteoarthritis
🔹Tight quadricep muscles
🔹Over straightening of the knee
🔹Over-use or repeated micro trauma from sports

🔵Fat pad syndrome can be seen in young women. People who are involving in jumping sports and people who are suffering from joint laxity are predisposed to have this syndrome.

🔵When you are suffering from the fat pad syndrome,

🔸You will feel extreme pain at the front of the knee, around the bottom of the patella. This pain can be worsened when the leg is fully straightened or when you go up and down stairs or when you are standing up for a long time.
🔸Swelling can be seen in below and around the knee.
🔸Patients feel very tender to touch the affected area of the knee.
🔸Patients should avoid over-extending the knee when they are suffering from fat pad syndrome.

🔵The initial treatments for fat pad syndrome are rest and medicines. Rest and medicines can reduce pain and inflammation.

🔵Physiotherapy treatments take part a huge role in order to get the patients back to their usual activities. Several physiotherapy treatments are as follows.

◻️Taping
◻️Strengthening exercises
◻️Quadriceps and anterior hip stretching exercises

🔵Patients are advised,

◼️To wear relatively elevated footwear to correct hyperextension
◼️To reduce their weight
They are educated about movements.



29/12/2021

Torticollis.

🔵 Torticollis,
Also known as twisted neck or wryneck, is a problem involving the muscles of the neck. It results from unilateral shortening and increased tone of the sternocleidomastoid muscle and presents as lateral flexion of the head to the ipsilateral side with rotation to the contralateral side.

🔵 If a baby has the condition at birth, it’s called congenital muscular torticollis. That’s the most common type.
Babies can also develop the condition after birth. Then it’s called “acquired,” rather than congenital. Acquired torticollis may be linked to other, more serious medical issues.

🔵 It is the third most common congenital musculoskeletal condition in new-borns with an incidence ranging from 0.3 to 16%.

🔵 What causes torticollis?

🔹 The exact cause of torticollis is unknown.
Congenital muscular torticollis is more likely to happen in firstborn children. This may also be accompanied by a congenital hip dislocation.
🔹 The cause is likely from the fetus’s position in the uterus resulting in injury to the neck muscles.
🔹 Acquired torticollis may be caused by irritation to the cervical ligaments from a viral infection, injury, or vigorous movement.
🔹 Additional causes may include:

▫️Sleeping in an awkward position.
▫️Neck muscle injury at birth.
▫️Burn injury.
▫️Any injury that causes heavy scarring and skin or muscle shrinkage.
▫️Neck muscle spasm.

🔵 Torticollis may also be a secondary condition that results from the following:

🔸 Slipped facets (two small joints on the side of the spine).
🔸 Herniated disk.
🔸 Viral or bacterial infection.

🔵 What are the symptoms of torticollis?

◻️ May not notice anything unusual about babies for the first 6 or 8 weeks. It’s common for torticollis symptoms to become obvious once an infant gains more control of the head and neck.
◻️ The following are the most common symptoms of torticollis. However, each person may experience symptoms differently.

◻️ Symptoms may include:

◾ Child’s head tilts to one side with their chin pointed to the opposite shoulder. In about 75% of babies with torticollis, the right side is affected.
◾ Their head doesn’t turn side to side or up and down easily.
◾ Can feel a soft lump in baby’s neck muscle. This isn’t dangerous, and goes away within 6 months, usually.
◾ Baby prefers to look over the shoulder at you. Their eyes don’t follow you because that would require turning their head.
◾ They have trouble in breast-feeding on one side or prefers to feed on one side only.
◾ Baby works hard to turn toward you, struggles to turn their head all the way, and becomes upset because the movement is hard.
◾ They might start getting a flat head on one side or both sides from lying in one position all the time. This is called “positional plagiocephaly.”

🔵 Physiotherapy management of torticollis.

🔶 Education.
Education, guidance and support is likely to reassure and help parents.
Educate the parents/caregivers about positioning and handling skills that promote active neck rotation toward the affected side and discouraging children from tilting their head toward the affected side.
🔶 Manual stretching.
Initial treatment focus on passive range stretching and close follow up. Parents are advised to perform positioning at schedules such as during feeds; this includes rotation of the chin towards the affected side shoulder. Infants can be placed on their stomach when awake and under supervision to develop motor skills in the prone position. Manual stretches such as flexion, extension, the lateral rotation. Good stabilization and correct hand positions are necessary for the success of the stretch. Every child/parent pair will have other preferences of stretching methods or positions.
🔶 Kinesio taping.
Many research studies have shown that kinesio taping of sternocleidomastoid muscles might decrease treatment duration due to longer lasting .