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Importance of physiotherapy post-delivery

During and post the birth of a child, a woman goes through a lot of changes both physically as well as emotionally. To help keep the physical health in check, it is important to be aware of the following:

To help alleviate issues in the future and to reverse some of the pregnancy related changes, dietary changes and exercises should be incorporated into every woman’s routine after the birth of the child.

Lower abdomen and Pelvic floor strengthening exercises :

Focus should be given to this during and post pregnancy.
This involves basic exercises such as squats or kegel exercises that needs to be done to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles.
These exercises can be initiated 2-5 days post delivery of a child. A doctor’s or physiotherapist’s recommendation should be followed before commencing.
In case of any pain or discomfort, exercises should be discontinued and expert opinion should be sought after.
These exercises help in controlling and strengthening your bladder and improves bowel control.
Basic exercises involves squeezing and relaxing of pelvic and abdominal muscles and continuing this for a short period.
Pelvic tilts and abdominal bracing can help in toning and strengthening these muscles.

Back muscles strengthening:

New mothers are prone to backache and injury and these exercises help prevent them.
Maintaining good posture, avoiding heavy object lifting, using chairs with good back support and avoiding prolonged bending or stretching can help avoid these issues.

Good eating habits:

Incorporating fibre rich foods into your meals.
Drinking adequate water everyday.

To get a better insight into good habits and proper exercises, it would be best to connect with a physiotherapist.

You can now find and teleconsult a physiotherapist on the Curie connect app!

Contact: https://curie.health , +91-8778826667 for more info.

Effects of the pandemic on the mental health of children and adolescents.

The extended lockdowns and stay at home restrictions put in place to curb the widespread dissemination of the corona virus has tested our mental health thresholds to the maximum.

Children and adolescents are facing a major brunt of these stresses due to the disruption of regular, quotidian activities involving school visits, extra curricular activities and limited interaction with peers coupled with online classes, prolonged periods indoors and limited social and emotional stimulation. So, how exactly does this affect them ??

Psychological stress symptoms such as low mood, irritability, anxiety or depression.
Lack of vigour to partake in daily activities or conversations.
Lack of social controls such as teachers, peers or other outside influences on a child’s psychosocial equilibrium.
Added pressures and lack of motivation due to sudden and unprecedented changes such as introduction of online classes and cessation of play time, outdoor activities.
Risk of untoward or inappropriate usage of online resources. Global estimates show a 30% increase in exploitation of children for pornography and exploration of such sites by younger children who have free, unrestricted or unsupervised access to the internet.
Increased risk of self harm or suicidal thoughts or tendencies. Global estimates show an average of 35% increase in suicide rates or self harm across all age groups.
Increased risk of child physical or mental abuse. This mainly pertains to those children who have abusive parents, witness domestic violence, live with a caretaker or come from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

So how can a parent support and help a child navigate through this challenging phase?

Talk to your children openly about the pandemic in a way they can easily process it.
Explain the advantages derived from this time. This can include points such as increased time with family, opportunity to unwind and relax from mundane routines, time to learn new activities or discover new passions, etc.
Spend quality time talking, interacting and engaging with your children.
Find activities such as exercising or family games that you can all partake in.
Create a conducive environment at home for a peaceful and happy mental status of your children.
Avoid excessive nagging or discouragement of your children.
Give your children a chance to open up their feelings or emotions to you.
Create an opportunity for your child to understand and get a positive approach towards usage of technology in the betterment of education and communication with friends and family.
Encourage your child to utilise this opportunity to focus on self-development and stay away from negative influences such as bullies at school.
Instil in your child the need to focus on spirituality and self-love.
Prevent your own stresses at work or involving finances to overshadow your child’s need for happiness.
If you have a child at high risk (with previous mental health concerns or physical disabilities), stay in touch with a psychologist and paediatrician through teleconsultation services like Curie Health.
Identify vulnerable behaviour and address it immediately.
Help children or families around you that may be struggling to cope. This will also help mould your children to be magnanimous and humanitarian on the long run.

This challenging time could turn out to be the best time for your child’s emotional growth and maturation if he/she receives the optimum level of support and understanding from parents. Therefore, it emerges as a solemn responsibility of each parent to render an unwavering commitment and support to children, in order to induce a favourable outcome at these testing times.

To teleconsult a paediatrician or psychologist, download the free Curie care app from your google playstore.

If you are a mental health practitioner or a pediatrician, sign up with the free Curie connect app to offer your services online!

For more details, visit https://curie.health or +91-8778826667.

Effects of the pandemic on the healthcare system and how Curie can cushion the impact..

The corona virus pandemic has engulfed most part of this year- 2020! As the effects of this global catastrophe on all domains become more and more evident with time, it is rather wise to be a step ahead and preempt the various ill effects it may have on our business and take effective precautions to dampen these.

So how has this pandemic affected healthcare and our clinical practices??

A study by Commonwealth fund estimates an average of 50% decline in the outpatient visits currently as compared to the pre-pandemic statistics.
A Hearing review study shows that almost 66% of hospitals and healthcare professionals owning private practices have applied for a loan or have sought alternative funding sources during this pandemic.
A KFF analysis shows that there has been a demand reduction of over 60% in Dentistry, 45% for general physicians, 40% in hospitals, 39% in home healthcare and nursing services, 32% in medical laboratory services and 5% in pharmacies!

doctor dentist clinics — Current demand for various healthcare specialisations if average demand pre-pandemic is kept as 100% (for easy reference) for each of these specialisations.

The crux of the above statistics is that ‘Healthcare professionals and services that are not directly related to the management of the pandemic are in a dull phase, witnessing losses worth billions.’

So how can Curie help your clinical practice during these unprecedented times??

Curie helps you to increase your clientele through personalised business consultations, marketing and business development strategies.
Retaining your existing patients and improving business generated by their referrals through proven methodologies.
Identify areas of revenue leakage and help to stem these.
Teleconsultation services to ensure more patients can assess your services and existing ones stay connected.
Business intelligence, analytics and improvement by trained professionals.
Seamless touch and voice based practice management software that is far different than that of the competitors.
Innovative ideas to connect with old and new patients and improve their trust on your practice.
Strongly connected network with key service providers, peers and clients.

Over 400 healthcare professionals have benefitted by Curie!

To know more about Curie, download the FREE Curie app from your android playstore : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ellora.systems.curie.doctor

Visit https://curie.health or call +91-8778826667 to know more!

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Negligible returns from your clinic’s marketing strategies? Ask Curie..

Most clinic owners spend hefty sums of money to pay third parties to carry out various marketing strategies to improve their business. However, many a times, the amount spent on these and the returns they produce fail to add up. So where exactly is the problem?

Majority of these third party companies do not focus on the need to individualise or personalise any strategy executed. They rather juxtapose a common strategy that worked for xyz client on all the clients and these evidently do not always yield positive results.

How exactly can one tackle this issue? Contrary to the popular belief that ‘One strategy fits all’, a different approach should be charted out based on the market research and data analytics of each clinical practice. This is definitely more time-consuming and involves higher monetary resources. However, the resulting success or returns are well worth the initial efforts that are put in.

Curie helps to increase your marketing strategy returns by:

• Offline and online marketing strategies that are tailor made for each clinical practice

• Complete data analysis to determine the most successful areas of business development

• Listing of clinical practices on Curie’s online map

• SEO optimisation and enhanced visibility on online sources

• Devising approaches to improve patient retention

• Focusing on increasing new patient walk ins and referrals

• Complete digitalisation of the clinic and clinical processes, setting the clinic apart from its competitors

• Periodic evaluation of the existing strategies and reforming them according to current market needs

• Building a rapport with old and new clients by SMSs or push notifications

Doctors and health professionals with Curie have seen the following outcomes

• More time to focus on clinical aspects as Curie takes care of operations and marketing

• Improved patient satisfaction and retention

• Increased trust levels among patients/clients and more referrals

• Significant improvement in revenue and patient statistics.

These are some services that make Curie unique and our highly efficient team works around the clock to help you propel your business to the next level.

To know more about how to improve your marketing returns and sign up with us, contact us at https://curie.health/ or call +91-8778826667.

Why and how should you register your clinical practice with Curie..?

Many healthcare professionals are curious about how Curie could impact your practice. Why don’t you sign up with us and see for yourself? We have a free trial period and you’ll be able to witness the vast specs of Curie and some of the advantages you could have if you subscribe to it on the long run.

So how exactly do you register your practice with us? We believe in a user friendly software that can be easily understood and used by anyone from anywhere. Therefore, registering with us to begin your journey with Curie is also a very simple process.

1. Log on to https://curie.health and register your clinic details.

2. Download the Curie Connect app from your google playstore.

3. Once your clinic details are provided, Curie provides you with a code that is unique for your clinic.

4. Share this code with your patients and social circle and allow them to connect with you on the Curie app.

5. Begin teleconsultations on the app, allow patients to find you and book appointments and easily view a patient’s medical records.

The Curie software also helps you to:

• Manage your clinical operations and view your practice related records from anywhere, including the comforts of your home.

• Store all patient details and records on a secure cloud based platform.

• Schedule physical or tele consultations with your patients.

• Allow existing and new patients to book appointments with you on the app.

• Allows text conversations with your patients and audio/video appointments.

• Maintain communication with all your patients by scheduling pop-up notifications and alerts regarding upcoming appointments, health insights and advices, offers and promotions, etc.

• Maintain inventory of your supplies and contact distributors easily.

• Business analytics and inputs to improve your business.

• Digitalised consent forms and feedback.

• Improved visibility of your practice on online sources.

• Offline and online marketing services and strategies.

• Constant customer support for any doubts or queries.

Overall, Curie aims to help all healthcare professionals have better and smoother clinical operations and provide a platform for wider patient reach.

Why have more doctors and patients started using Curie, post the pandemic?

This pandemic has put a lot of things into perspective. One of the most important lessons has been learned by business owners and consumers. As owners look into different ways to stay afloat, consumers are looking into different ways to enjoy these services without putting themselves at risk.

This explains exactly why Curie has become increasingly popular in the healthcare domain since the pandemic started. We have had a 70% increase in the doctor and patient clientele and a 50% increase in the number of new queries regarding online consultations and telemedicine.

Let us see exactly how Curie has benefited both doctors and patients during these testing times.

Curie for doctors

The Curie doctor’s app is a one-stop software solution for teleconsultation as well as clinic management. Some of the notable features include:

Digitalisation of your clinical practice- Includes digitalisation of appointments, medical records, payments, patient and doctor files, etc.

Patient management: Curie’s app not only helps in allocating appointment slots for your patients and storing their medical data, but it also helps in sending out periodic reminders for appointments or review visits, health information, and tips, information of upcoming offers or promotions and other such communication titbits that needs to be conveyed.

Revenue generation: Curie adds you to an online directory where patients who are looking for an appointment in the concerned specialty can identify you easily and reach you either through booking online or physical appointments.

Online consultation platform: As discussed above, Curie provides you with an unparalleled telemedicine experience. This user-friendly app helps to seamlessly connect with patients and enjoy a virtual consultation that is almost similar to a physical consultation. Read more on https://curiedothealth.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/why-switch-to-tele-consultations/

Online payments: True to Curie’s promise of digitalising every aspect of your practice, payments, and receipt generation have been made digital as well. We allow doctors to set their customised charges for the services they render and Curie does not add or reduce any charges that have been set by the user.

Digital marketing: More about this can be found at https://curiedothealth.wordpress.com/2020/05/25/digital-marketing-and-its-use-in-clinical-practice/

Curie for patients

Book appointments at a jiffy from your phones!
Store all your medical records and data securely on the app.
Share data and reports with a doctor online
Avoid paying more for your appointments booked through other third-party apps.
Get notifications and alerts of upcoming appointments and personalised information from your doctors.
Connect with a specialist from anywhere at any time!

The above gives you an insight into what we offer and how you can benefit from this. Download the curie app and get introduced into a whole new world of digitalised health.

Call us at +91-8778826667 or visit https://curie.health for more info.

Improving patient flow and maintaining clinic revenue during COVID-19

COVID-19 has affected almost all industries equally. This is true even for healthcare services. While emergency care and intensive care patients might be higher due to COVID-19 affected patients, all other specialties such as surgery, gynecology, general medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy, etc., have seen a sharp decline. Therefore, it is essential during this time to ensure that all possible means of communication with existing and new patients are kept in place.

Some of the trends seen are:

Patients do not attend their regular appointments or initiate a new appointment due to the fear of being infected at the hospital:

75% of Curie’s survey respondents have not visited a doctor during this pandemic and this trend is true on a larger scale as well. Patients are increasingly more hesitant to visit a doctor unless in cases of an emergency where they cannot avoid a visit.

This proves to have a negative effect on both doctors as well as the patient. Long periods of missed appointments and lack of new appointments have detrimental effects on the health of the patients in general and also affect the livelihood of the doctors.

One effective way to tackle this shortfall is to ensure teleconsultation services are provided by all health care professionals and all patients are encouraged to attend their regular visits online. This improves communication between doctor and patient, improves the trust and loyalty of the patient on the doctor, and also reduce the absenteeism of patients during appointments.

Post teleconsultation, if any physical visit is required, it can be done so at a later point in time. This will drastically increase the number of patients keeping up with their regular appointments and new patients might be referred by satisfied regulars.

Most doctors in India do not offer teleconsultations

A lack of awareness and conviction about teleconsultations is still widely prevalent amongst the medical fraternity. If the majority of the specialists around India go online, the scope of being able to cater to people from all walks of life and all areas of the society is limitless.

In Curie’s survey, the majority of the patients said that their regular doctors do not offer teleconsultations. This is alarming because almost ALL these respondents are willing to try teleconsultation. If this trend continues, we can be assured to see more patients including your regular clientele gravitating towards doctors or hospitals that offer such convenient services.

Common reasons for the inacceptance of telemedicine

Misconceptions that a teleconsultation is ineffective: with more number of services right from groceries, food, beauty salons and even taxis going online, the next big thing is offering health services online. The effectiveness of these consultations are proved by the number of people who would prefer teleconsultations to physical visits right after trying it out once!
Need for physical tests or examinations: A doctor can always book another appointment for these as and when required, reducing the time spent by both doctor and patient and reducing waiting times.
The need for high-end gadgets: teleconsultations can work in a simple smartphone and no elaborate set up needs to be purchased to initiate these.
Payments: A lot of doctors are hesitant as they think that obtaining a fee from patients would be difficult. In Curie’s teleconsultation app, the appointment is only confirmed after the fee is paid, enabling you to be sure that your fees are honored.
Cost of teleconsultation platforms: At Curie, a doctor can enjoy optimum benefits at Rs.6000 (+GST) annually to subscribe to the mobile app. Curie also does not charge doctors for any appointments that are new or old. Therefore, total transparency helps to keep costs low and yield the best rewards.

Take home points for doctors:

Up to 90% of your clinical practices’ income comes from your existing clientele. Therefore, it is best to retain these patients and ensure they attend your appointments and visits at least online. You can read more on this at https://curiedothealth.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/clinical-practice-achieving-the-right-blend-of-new-and-old-patients/
Telemedicine is here to stay. Even post COVID-19, International researchers and medical professionals have confirmed that telemedicine will be the future of healthcare.
Encouraging your regular patients to keep up with their appointments and come for reviews, use the help of a software to send regular reminders.
Improve the visibility of your practice by taking it online. This will help retain existing clients and increase the number of new ones.

Download the Curie connect app and get started on your telemedicine journey!

Call 91-8778826667 or log on to https://curie.health for a free demo or trial.

Living with the coronavirus pandemic – Post Lockdown

The world as it is today has survived many calamities in the past. This includes historical pandemics such as the Spanish flu and the Ebola virus. To think that ‘COVID-19’ might be the end of the world is just incongruous. The thoughts that the coronavirus should rather instill in you are those of resilience and a healthy caution. After all, Charles Darwin once said nature is sustained by the concept of ‘Survival of the Fittest’. Therefore, beating the coronavirus and continuing to strive will be our test of endurance.

In a few weeks, nations will be forced to lift the ongoing lockdowns due to economic and developmental needs. Despite the ongoing prevalence of the coronavirus among the population, this move will be inevitable. Our next goal, therefore, is to find out the best ways of ‘Survival’.

So what can we do to protect ourselves?

Infection control: We have heard this over and over again. Washing and sanitizing hands regularly, wearing a face mask or covering, not touching your face unnecessarily, etc. Have been widely recommended.

Stay at least a meter away from others. This can be difficult especially in overcrowded public transports. The government is looking into what can be done to reduce this risk.

Avoid unnecessary travel within or outside the country.

Consider shopping online. This is the future of the service industry to avoid crowding at shops or malls.

Prefer having home-cooked meals or order food to your home if needed.

Support small businesses and local vendors by buying from them.

Work from home whenever possible. Crowding of offices poses a huge risk. For those who need to go to work, employers can organize them into different shifts to ensure lower contact and lesser crowding.

Build immunity: eating vitamin-rich foods, probiotics, drinking adequate water, and sleeping for 7-8 hours contribute to a better immune system.

Be aware of the symptoms for the coronavirus and make sure to seek medical attention if you experience any of them.

Avoid visiting a clinic or a hospital unless necessary. Opinions and queries can now be done online via telemedicine.

Curie is the pioneer of telemedicine in India. This virtual consultation tool is one of a kind and is gaining immense popularity every day. Download the curie app and connect from anywhere, at any time with a doctor/dentist or medical professional.

To know more about this platform, download the curie app or visit https://curie.health/ or call on +91-87788 26667 to know more about us.