13 August 2012
From Tehemtan J. Dhabhar
To whomsoever it may concern.
An encomium for Dr. Shailender MPT.
My first meeting with Dr. Shailender took place in late 2009 when I accompanied my wife for her physiotherapy following the opening of her plaster after she had fractured her wrist. The simple physiotherapy done on her wrist by an earlier PTT was unsatisfactory. She had a bare 60% of the movement and even that hurt.
We then referred to Dr. Shailender. It was a pleasure to watch the way he went about gently moving her arm and gave her simple exercises to do, encouraging her when she was impatient at the slow healing, . She ultimately regained nearly 100% of her movement.
Watching him work with my wife, I was encouraged to ask him to help me with a couple of my painful joints. I was helped considerably and I put a challenge to him. In 1975, whilst practicing judo I had injured the muscle of my right shoulder. This caused me agonizing pain the doctor whom I consulted had “set” it for me. This was followed by 2 weeks of massage and warm and cold water fomentation. However, complete cure never took place, and I could not raise my arm vertically, or to the back without pain.
Dr. S gently felt the muscle and found that a nerve had been trapped. He gently released the nerve and thereafter, within 2 days of PT, I could freely begin to move my arm and shoulder without pain for the first time in 34 years. He also recommended some muscle relaxing and strengthening exercises which would help me in the long run.
The above incident emboldened me to move to an even earlier injury. In 1957, (52 years before 2009), when I was 14 years old, I was doing barbell somersaults. Suddenly one of the supports slipped. I fell on my chest and belly and the rod came down on my spine with one end hitting a disc on my spine.
I recovered from the injury. However, as I grew till I was 18, apparently the disc did not grow. This would often cause me pain and over the years, on several occasions I had been immobilized by sciatic pain. I was unable to bend. At any time if any pressure was put on the area of this disk it would hurt. Dr. S felt the disk and did some (painful) manipulation and then put me on a regimen of 4 simple exercises. In a matter of 2 weeks the pain was gone and now any pressure on the disk or its neighbours causes no pain whatsoever.
He has done similar work on my sister and a few friends who I recommended his name to. They are also very happy with his treatment and the way he deals with them.
The above referred only to his skills. Now, I would like to say something about him as a person. Dr. S comes across to all of us as a very gentle, polite and humorous person. All the time as he works with the patient he softly continues a conversation, encouraging, explaining and sometimes even joking with him/her. Secondly, aside from Physiotherapy he comes across as very knowledgeable in peripheral areas of human issues of pain, illness and cure including the psychology of human ailments. This makes him a well-rounded person. He has wide ranging interests and makes for a pleasant and interesting friend. In our family we refer to him as our “Magician”.
Speaking for all of us we recommend him to people who are seeking help without surgery, painkillers and other short-cuts.
Tehemtan Dhabhar
Tel: +91 2637 323220
Email: tehemtan@gmail.com
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