National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research
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Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research (S.V.NIRTAR) is an autonomous Institute functioning under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment of India
. It is located in Olatpur, 30 km from Cuttack
. and Bhubaneswar
.
and created in the name of Directorate of Artificial Limbs Fitting Centre (DALFC) in March 1974 and started functioning at Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
. When the Institute was shifted to a rented place in Safdarjung Enclave, its name was changed to Central Institute of Prosthetic and Orthotic Training (CIPOT).
Following the offer of available land at Olatpur by former Orissa
Chief Minister Nandini Satpathy
during former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi
's visit to Orissa
, Indira suggested Balu Sankaran
, Professor Emeritus at St Stephens Hospita and family surgeon to Indira Gandhi to study the feasibility of starting the Institute in Olatpur. The Institute was shifted from New Delhi to Olatpur in November 1975 and started functioning from 3 December 1975 following the recommendations of Balu Sankaran. Subsequently the name of the Institute was changed from CIPOT to National Institute of Prosthetic and Orthotic Training (NIPOT) in 1976.
The institute also undertakes programmes of rehabilitation and provides services to orthopaedically handicapped and allied health problems.
The rehabilitation is provided through the following infrastructure:
Prosthetics and Orthotics science is now one of the worlds fastest growing area of research and development. Prosthetics is the study of prescribing, designing and fitting artificial replacements (may be any part of a normal human body) by biologically feasible materials, they may be of internal type (e.g. artificial body implants, internal knee joints used in knee joint replacement surgery, etc.) or external type (artificial limbs, aesthetic fingers, etc. ) and one who is expert in this science is called as a Prosthetist, he mainly deals with the external type of replacement. A prosthetist deals with mainly amputees (unilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, etc.), congenital malfunctioning of limbs etc. Similarly, Orthotics is the study of prescribing, designing and fitting supportive devises to any part of human body with any neuromusculoskeletal disorders and one who is expert in this science is called as an Orthotist. Sometime splints are referred as orthosis (the devise), they are otherwise but indeed, used for a short period of time. Some of the pathologies where orthotists play an important roll are all type of paralysis patient (hemiplegics, paraplegics, triplegics, quadriplegics, etc.), polio myelitis, muscular dystrophy, CTEV, Cerebral Palsy, Burn injury, fractures (mainly fractures of cervical vertebrae), diabetic foot, leprosy, Perthe's disease, PID, LBP, Vertebral deformities (scoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, etc.), phlagiocephalics, any LMN disorders, etc. Apart from prosthesis and orthosis, a Prosthetist and Orthotist is the only licensed professional in India to prescribe mobility aids and appliances i.e. crutch, wheel chair, walker, etc. Their two prosthetics and orthotics workshops, one is called as the old workshop which is near about 38 years old meant for production and the latest is a new workshop meant only for academics and research which is equipped with latest pneumatic technology, with workshop layout by Ottobock healtcare, Germany.
The following aids and appliances are fabricated by department of prosthetics and orthotics at S.V.NIRTAR:
Occupational Therapy (OT) is being practiced in India for more than five decades. OT is one of the important health disciplines. Occupational Therapists provide services to the individuals whose functional abilities are affected due to physical or mental illness, aging process, developmental problems, emotional problems. Occupational Therapists use purposeful, goal-oriented activities to achieve its goals that is to help the individual to be functionally independent having satisfactory life.The Department of Occupational Therapy is well equipped to provide services to disabled clients at S.V.NIRTAR.
The following services are available at the Department of Occupational Therapy:
Physiotherapy (PT) is the branch of modern treatment that deals with the diseases and disorders by physical/natural means. It is not merely application of physical modalities, but it includes evaluation, assessment, treatment planning and treatment application, re-assessment, modification of treatment programmes and advice to the client.
The department of P.T. caters services to both out and in patients. Patients anr allotted to therapists who evaluate, assess and plan out the treatment and execute the therapy. Difficult and problematic cases are discussed in the departmental meetings and therapeutic measures appropriate for them are given. Suitable “Home exercise programmes“ are advised to patients.
The following services are available at Dept. of Physiotherapy.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It is located in Olatpur, 30 km from Cuttack
Cuttack
Cuttack is the former capital of the state of Orissa, India. It is the headquarters of Cuttack district and is located about 20 km to the north east of Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa. The name of the city is an anglicised form of Kataka that literally means The Fort, a reference to the...
. and Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, officially Odisha. The city has a long history of over 2000 years starting with Chedi dynasty who had Sisupalgarh near present-day Bhubaneswar as their capital...
.
History
The Institute was conceived to provide manpower to the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of IndiaArtificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India
The Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India is a Public Sector Undertaking of the Government of India. Established in 1956, ALIMCO manufactures artificial limbs and rehabilitation aids...
and created in the name of Directorate of Artificial Limbs Fitting Centre (DALFC) in March 1974 and started functioning at Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
. When the Institute was shifted to a rented place in Safdarjung Enclave, its name was changed to Central Institute of Prosthetic and Orthotic Training (CIPOT).
Following the offer of available land at Olatpur by former Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
Chief Minister Nandini Satpathy
Nandini Satpathy
Nandini Satpathy , was an Indian politician and author, and was the former Chief Minister of Orissa.-Family:...
during former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
's visit to Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
, Indira suggested Balu Sankaran
Balu Sankaran
Balu Sankaran is a Professor, scientist and recipient of Padma Shri and Padma Vibushan awards. He helped establish an artificial limbs manufacturing corporation and a Rehabilatation Institute.-Biography:...
, Professor Emeritus at St Stephens Hospita and family surgeon to Indira Gandhi to study the feasibility of starting the Institute in Olatpur. The Institute was shifted from New Delhi to Olatpur in November 1975 and started functioning from 3 December 1975 following the recommendations of Balu Sankaran. Subsequently the name of the Institute was changed from CIPOT to National Institute of Prosthetic and Orthotic Training (NIPOT) in 1976.
Courses and Services
The institute offers Bachelor Degree in Physiotherapy (B.P.T.) 4½ yr, Bachelor Degree in Occupational therapy (B.O.T.) 4½ yr, Bachelor Degree in Prosthetics and Orthotics (BPO)4 ½yr , 2yr Masters degree in Occupational therapy(Neurology,Hand Therapy,Devlopemental disabilities & Rehabilitation) and Physiotherapy (Neurology, Paediatric,Musculoskeletal & Rehabilitation), and Diplomate in National Board of Examination (DNB). It also conducts short orientation courses, Continuing Medical Education courses for rehabilitation professionals, awareness programmes for the functionaries of Govt. and Non-Govt., Persons with disabilities and their relatives etc.The institute also undertakes programmes of rehabilitation and provides services to orthopaedically handicapped and allied health problems.
Rehabilitation Services
Patients with locomotor / orthopaedic disabilities due to various ailments like poliomyelitis, Cerebral Palsy, Congenital Deformities, Leprosy, Burn contracture, Paraplegia, Hemiplegia etc. and hearing and speech disabilities are treated and rehabilitated. Patients/Persons with disabilities requiring artificial limbs and other rehabilitation aids and appliances are provided to prevent the impairment leading to disability and to make them near normal and to carry on their activities for daily living.The rehabilitation is provided through the following infrastructure:
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- 100 bedded hospital.
- Prosthetic and Orthotic Unit.
- Physiotherapy Unit.
- Occupational therapyOccupational therapyOccupational therapy is a discipline that aims to promote health by enabling people to perform meaningful and purposeful activities. Occupational therapists work with individuals who suffer from a mentally, physically, developmentally, and/or emotionally disabling condition by utilizing treatments...
Unit. - Two well equipped operation theatres for performing corrective and reconstructive surgeries.
- Microsurgery.
- Assessment Clinic consisting of Rehabilitation Specialists & professionals to evaluate the patients.
- Radiological and Pathological investigation Units.
- Cerebral PalsyCerebral palsyCerebral palsy is an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement....
Clinic. - Hand Clinic.
- Speech Therapy.
- Psychological counselling.
- Vocational counselling, Training and Guidance.
- Workshop for hand splintSplint (medicine)A splint is a device used for support or immobilization of limbs or of the spine.It can be used:* By the emergency medical services or by volunteer first responders, to immobilize a fractured limb before the transportation; it is then a temporary immobilization;* By allied health professionals such...
s. - HydrotherapyHydrotherapyHydrotherapy, formerly called hydropathy, involves the use of water for pain-relief and treating illness. The term hydrotherapy itself is synonymous with the term water cure as it was originally marketed by practitioners and promoters in the 19th century...
. - Modern and Sophisticated Rehabilitation equipments.
- Rehabilitation Park.
Prosthetics and Orthotics
Head of the Department: Mr. Somnath RoutProsthetics and Orthotics science is now one of the worlds fastest growing area of research and development. Prosthetics is the study of prescribing, designing and fitting artificial replacements (may be any part of a normal human body) by biologically feasible materials, they may be of internal type (e.g. artificial body implants, internal knee joints used in knee joint replacement surgery, etc.) or external type (artificial limbs, aesthetic fingers, etc. ) and one who is expert in this science is called as a Prosthetist, he mainly deals with the external type of replacement. A prosthetist deals with mainly amputees (unilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, etc.), congenital malfunctioning of limbs etc. Similarly, Orthotics is the study of prescribing, designing and fitting supportive devises to any part of human body with any neuromusculoskeletal disorders and one who is expert in this science is called as an Orthotist. Sometime splints are referred as orthosis (the devise), they are otherwise but indeed, used for a short period of time. Some of the pathologies where orthotists play an important roll are all type of paralysis patient (hemiplegics, paraplegics, triplegics, quadriplegics, etc.), polio myelitis, muscular dystrophy, CTEV, Cerebral Palsy, Burn injury, fractures (mainly fractures of cervical vertebrae), diabetic foot, leprosy, Perthe's disease, PID, LBP, Vertebral deformities (scoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, etc.), phlagiocephalics, any LMN disorders, etc. Apart from prosthesis and orthosis, a Prosthetist and Orthotist is the only licensed professional in India to prescribe mobility aids and appliances i.e. crutch, wheel chair, walker, etc. Their two prosthetics and orthotics workshops, one is called as the old workshop which is near about 38 years old meant for production and the latest is a new workshop meant only for academics and research which is equipped with latest pneumatic technology, with workshop layout by Ottobock healtcare, Germany.
The following aids and appliances are fabricated by department of prosthetics and orthotics at S.V.NIRTAR:
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- Endoskeletal Prosthesis (S.V.NIRTAR is the only premiere institute in India to have workshop facility and availability of components for endoskeletal Below Knee and Above Knee prosthesis with soft cosmetic cover ).
- Immediate Post Operative Prosthesis (removable and readjustable system)
- Plastic FO, AFO, KAFO
- Metallic AFO, KAFO and HKAFO
- Co-polymer Polypropylene spinal braces
- Aluminum alloy spinal braces
- Wrist driven, Shoulder driven hand and upper arm splints
- Fracture bracing
Occupational therapy
Head of the Department: Mr Sunil MokhasiOccupational Therapy (OT) is being practiced in India for more than five decades. OT is one of the important health disciplines. Occupational Therapists provide services to the individuals whose functional abilities are affected due to physical or mental illness, aging process, developmental problems, emotional problems. Occupational Therapists use purposeful, goal-oriented activities to achieve its goals that is to help the individual to be functionally independent having satisfactory life.The Department of Occupational Therapy is well equipped to provide services to disabled clients at S.V.NIRTAR.
The following services are available at the Department of Occupational Therapy:
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- Evaluation and Management of Functional Deficits
- Developmental Therapy
- Behavioral therapy
- Hand Therapy
- ADL Training
- Advice on Barrier-free Environment
- Sensory integration therapySensory integration therapySensory integration therapy or sensory integrative therapy attempts to treat Sensory Integration Dysfunction. Some of these treatments have a questionable rationale and no empirical evidence. Other treatments have been studied, with small positive outcomes, but few conclusions can be drawn due to...
- Small hand Splints (temporary)
Physiotherapy
Head of the Department: Mr. P.P.MohantyPhysiotherapy (PT) is the branch of modern treatment that deals with the diseases and disorders by physical/natural means. It is not merely application of physical modalities, but it includes evaluation, assessment, treatment planning and treatment application, re-assessment, modification of treatment programmes and advice to the client.
The department of P.T. caters services to both out and in patients. Patients anr allotted to therapists who evaluate, assess and plan out the treatment and execute the therapy. Difficult and problematic cases are discussed in the departmental meetings and therapeutic measures appropriate for them are given. Suitable “Home exercise programmes“ are advised to patients.
The following services are available at Dept. of Physiotherapy.
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- Electrotherapy – Electrical stimulation, Interferential therapy, TENS etc.
- Actinotherapy – Ultraviolet, Infrared Radiation, LASER etc.
- Heat therapy – Paraffin wax bath, moist heat, Ultrasound, Short Wave Diathermy,Microwave Diathermy etc.
- Exercise therapy
- Manual therapy including traction and soft tissue manipulation
- Hydrotherapy and Cryotherapy
- Misc- CDG-Gait analyser, KIN KOM-Isokinetic unit, Pulsed Electromagnetic energy, Biofeedback etc.