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Rajul is a
physical therapist from Bombay University, G. S. Medical College and
King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India. She completed her
postgraduate education from Rehabilitation Klinik Valens and post
Graduate Centre Hermitage Bad Ragaz in Switzerland.
Rajul always aspired to be a general surgeon - a childhood dream.
However, circumstances landed her in the field of physical therapy. She
soon realized that brain stroke and rehabilitation is a field where the
diagnosis and early critical care has advanced with modern science and
technology, however post-acute care is still in dark state.
Rehabilitation techniques practiced today have many short falls.
Development of abnormal motor control and spasticity continues to be a
challenge for all concerned with rehabilitation around the world!
Rajul began
to feel guilty when brain stroke patients visited her with high
expectation. She was as clueless as the patient - only difference being
that she was on the other side of the table!! Rajul put herself in the
shoes of the patient and started questioning herself on why brain stroke
patients of the last century and the present ones continued to show
similar symptoms, which endorsed them as hemiplegics despite the lesion
in different areas of the brain? And why a small lesion could cause loss
of one half of the body?
Rajul became
obsessed to find solutions for challenges faced by brain stroke patients
and became determined to give a new direction for brain stroke
rehabilitation.
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