Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) seek to provide outstanding patient care to both outpatient and inpatient at Aster.

One of the most advanced facilities of its kind in the region, led by a Physiatrist, the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation department at Aster CMI, offers a wide range of services to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life in people with physical impairments/ disabilities of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons. Physio Rehab at Aster CMI Hospital is designed to give everyone access to the highest quality, most effective and up-to-date clinical rehab programs, rehab and mobility exercises, injury prevention and rehabilitation education.

The Team includes Physiatrist (Doctors who have training in this speciality), Physical therapists, Speech and Swallowing Pathologists, Occupational Therapist.

Our commitment is to improve the quality of life for persons recovering from or learning to live fully with illness, injury and disability.

Why Choose Aster CMI for Rehab?

Aster CMI strives to provide comprehensive care to patients suffering from various impairments. And when rehabilitation units are in the hospital, physicians can coordinate care better and faster if a patient’s health status changes.

The centre offers integrated advanced rehabilitation programs such as post-stroke and traumatic brain injuries, paralytic diseases, neuromuscular diseases, sports injury, women’s health issues, pregnancy-related fitness care, pain management post-transplant management and spinal conditions such as back neck, knee and joint pain, recovery from joint replacement, ligament reconstructions and other orthopaedic surgeries. With all of these conditions, the emphasis is placed around what is consider to be the cause of your symptoms, develop a treatment plan, and set about treating the symptoms and the cause whole through a combination of a variety of therapies, including investigations, medications, surgical procedures, pain interventions, physical modalities. We have specialized teams for Neurological Rehabilitation, Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Rehabilitative Ergonomic Solutions, Rheumatologic rehabilitation, Women’s health, Post-transplant, Sports & Fitness Rehabilitation and functional training.

We all work together to improve patients’ function to a maximum level so that people can enjoy life again after an illness.

Who should choose?

• Traumatic brain injury
• Stroke
• Guillian barre syndrome
• Spinal cord injury
• Parkinsons disease
• Post-op rehab
• Muscular dystrophy
• Nerve injury/Palsy
• Acute/Chronic painful conditions
• TKR/THR rehab
• Sports injury rehab
• Pulmonary rehab
• Cardiac Rehab
• Pediatric rehab (Cerebral Palsy, MMC, Muscular dystrophy)
• Long term ICU stay patients (>10 days)
• Amputee rehab
• Diabetic foot
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Painful/deformed joint rehabilitation
• Tendon transfer patients
• War affected patients with any of the above dysfunction

We have highly experienced teams for Neurological Rehabilitation, Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, Cardio-pulmonary Rehabilitation, Rehabilitative Ergonomic Solutions, Rheumatologic rehabilitation, Women’s health (including Antenatal exercises), Pre and Post-transplant, Sports & Fitness Rehabilitation and functional training.

Department has the following facilities: Out patient area, Inpatient beds, Interventional management area- Joint/soft tissue injections, Botulinum toxin injections, Physical therapy, Occupational therapy, Speech-Language pathology, Interaction/synergy with Indigenous systems of Medicine where indication.