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Indian wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant suffered a complete tear of his knee ligament in a serious car accident last year. What exactly is a ligament, then? In essence, the ligament is what connects the bones of the knee. Also, it keeps the knee balanced. When a ligament tears, walking gets challenging.

 
 
 
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Movement becomes extremely challenging as a result of the severe leg pain brought on by the torn ligament. After that, he underwent two operations, the MCL and ACL surgeries, to repair his medical collateral ligament. Following that procedure, the doctors advised him to engage in regular exercise and physiotherapy.

What Is Physiotherapy?

Following serious injuries, physiotherapy is useful since it is essential to the healing process. Physiotherapists assist patients in regaining strength, mobility, and function through specialized exercises and therapies. They create individualised treatment regimens that take into account certain injury-related difficulties, minimizing discomfort, encouraging tissue repair, and averting consequences.

 
 
 
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Additionally, physiotherapy improves general wellbeing by fostering greater self-assurance and mental toughness, enabling patients to reclaim their independence and resume their regular lives with better physical and mental health. In a discussion with Jagran English, Dr. Gaurish Kenkre, General Manager and Head of Atharv Ability, talked about many things related to physiotherapy.

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How Does Physiotherapy Help After Major Surgery?

Dr. Gaurish Kenkre said, "Major accidents or surgeries often affect neurological functioning to varying degrees. In many cases, these translate into patients experiencing difficulties performing routine tasks, thus severely impacting their quality of life. Physical therapy that focuses on neurorehabilitation often becomes the need of the hour for such patients. These approaches focus on provisioning an appropriate environment to assist functional recovery and on the assisted practice of meaningful tasks. Rehabilitation plays a pivotal role in post-traumatic recovery across all stages: acute, subacute, and chronic. The focus remains to rehabilitate the patient with the best potential using various robotics and neurodevelopmental techniques and approaches."

 
 
 
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What Are The Different Types Of Physiotherapy Sessions?

Rishab used to perform a wide variety of exercises to check his heels, knees, and feet. One can perform heel slides, standing terminal exercises, and chair squats in this. The knee has to be covered in ice. Following surgery, a brace may occasionally be used on the knee. Surgery is done only after removing the brace.

 
 
 
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What Are The Benefits Of A Physiotherapy Session?

  1. Improve balance and walking
  2. Increase your ability to roll, move in bed, sit, or stand.
  3. Reduce muscle spasms, pain, and stiffness.
  4. Increase strength
  5. Retrain normal patterns of movement.
  6. Increase affected arm and leg function.
  7. Increase endurance
  8. decrease the risk of falling
  9. Increase independence and improve the quality of life.
 
 
 
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How Long Did Rishabh Pant Took For The Physiotherapy Session?

If it's an ACL, it will typically take between 6 and 9 months to get back in the sport, according to the standard rehabilitation process used for ACL and MCL patients like Rishab Pant. Depending on the severity and the specifics of the surgery, which may vary from surgeon to surgeon, it will take between 3 and 4 months if it's an MCL.

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Also recently, India's star wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant uploaded a video on his social media platform, and in that video, he was seen doing some exercises and running. Not just this, he wrote a caption that says, "Thankful to God, at least I have started seeing some light in the dark tunnel. #blessed #RP17."