‘The PT Women’ come up with solution for paralysis patients
| Date :17-Sep-2019 |
People’s University students displaying their model ‘Upper Limb Functional Rehabilitation Unit’. (right) ‘The PT Women’ showing the working of model at Bhopal Vigyan Mela.
By Shaily Acharya :
The team called ‘The PT Women’ including Zainab Khan, Maha Ahmed, Sanskriti Mishra, Saman Choudhary who are BPT IV year have displayed this model in the science fair. Talking to ‘The Hitavada’, students explained their model and its working and benefits
When anyone suffers from neurological complications like hemiplegia, monoplegia and paralysis then in most of such cases, victim’s upper limb movement gets affected. Students of Paramedical College of People’s University have come up with a possible solution. They have developed a model “Upper Limb Functional Rehabilitation Unit” which was displayed in “Bhopal Vigyan Mela” held at BHEL Dussehra Maidan. The team called ‘The PT Women’ including Zainab Khan, Maha Ahmed, Sanskriti Mishra, Saman Choudhary who are BPT IV year have displayed this model in the science fair. Talking to ‘The Hitavada’, students explained their model and its working and benefits.
Maha Ahmed told “Our model completely focuses on the complete upper limb rehabilitation required in cases of most common neurological complications like hemiplegia, monoplegia and paralysis, etc. It consists of five units like a suspension frame, a board consisting of four other units known as kingdoms including strength, coordination, gripping and ADL Kingdoms.” The prominent scope of the model is that it is cheap. It is completely made up of household materials. It is made up of used bottles, old gloves, used birthday caps, empty hand wash bottles, old CD, cardboard boxes, rope, used containers, lock key, sponge, sand and ball. Besides, it is customised-user friendly, portable can be shifted to patients’ place easily, adjustable according to the need of a person, materials for it are easily available in the market and the plus point is it occupies less space comparatively.
The total cost of our rehabilitation board is Rs 700.” Sanskriti Mishra explained the uses and benefits by this model to a paralyzed patient. She says “The model strengthens the weak muscles, co-ordination exercises and cognitive function to some extent, all gripping exercises which are included in it includes power and precision grip. Besides, exercises promoting activities of daily living.” Further she stated that “This model can be further modified to be used by different patients in future such as Re-education followed by tendor transfer, for quadriplegia, rheumatoid arthritis, post fracture stiffness.”