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!

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.

Contact us at https://curie/health or +91-8778826667 to start your Curie journey today!

CLINICAL PRACTICE- Who generates more income? THE NEW OR THE OLD PATIENTS?

A survey conducted in developed countries show that around 90% of your clinical practice clientele are old patients while only 10% or lesser is comprised of new patients.

Keeping in mind that clinics or doctors end up spending out of their pocket to obtain ‘New patients’, statistics actually goes to show that retaining old patients, improving their satisfaction and encouraging them to come back to you is always smarter and more cost effective!

Let us see compare the above two categories

Criteria	Existing Patients	New patients
Percentage	Up to 90% of clientele	Upto 10% of total clientele
Costs incurred	No financial investment	Needs financial investment
Emotional Quotient with the doctor/clinic	High	Low
Reliance on the Doctor	Present	Yet to be established
Knowledge of the doctor’s abilities	Present	Absent
Satisfaction	Easy to achieve	Takes time, money and effort
Referring new patients	High chances	Low chances

From the above, it can clearly be concluded that focusing on existing patient satisfaction is equally or infact, even more important that shifting all focus on new patients.

Paying your software provider or any online or offline third party to bring patients is therefore not the best idea. The cost of obtaining a new patient is this case might far outweigh the revenue generated by these patients on the long run.

Importance of referrals

The most effective way to get more clientele still remains to be by ‘Word of Mouth’. An existing patient who is satisfied by your services will definitely refer his or her friends and relatives to you.

In this process, there are no extra costs incurred. You also get to strengthen bonds with an existing patient while sowing the seed to a possible future referral from this patient.

How you can achieve the perfect blend of old and new patients:

• Strive to provide quality of services to increase satisfaction
• Encourage referrals
• Get feedbacks
• Always trace the source of a referral
• Constantly stay in touch with patients by regular messages, emails, appointment reminders, review calls, etc.
• Do not go for expensive third parties for new patient referrals
• Focus on online and offline marketing
• Digitalise your practice
• Choose the right IT partner for the practice
• Improvise as need changes. E.g: COVID-19 has stressed the need to switch to telemedicine to keep in touch with patients. Make sure your practice is online.

You can read more on this on our previous blog

https://curiedothealth.wordpress.com/2020/03/09/how-to-obtain-more-patients-in-your-dental-clinic-and-retain-existing-clientele/

Some of these above ideas are best executed by a professional IT partner like CURIE! You can trust us to provide you with the perfect set up, analytics and platform to enable optimum clientele building and retaining.

Contact : https://curie.health or +91-8778826667

DIGITAL MARKETING AND ITS USE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Recent studies have shown that up to 80% of the people in urban areas search for information on a treatment/procedure, doctor, or clinic/hospital ONLINE before choosing one. This shows the increasing importance of digital marketing in healthcare.

With the availability of free and vast information on the internet, patients these days want to make informed choices and choose the best service provider available. This is no different for doctors or their clinics. Attracting new patients and engaging the existing ones nowadays prove to be a difficult task without the acceptance of digitalisation and digital marketing.

Few approaches to improve social media presence and increase your brand value include:

Website creation

This is a primary need for initiating digital marketing. Creating a user-friendly, informative site can boost your brand name significantly.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):

All of us usually tend to register the first few options that are displayed to us when we search for something on Google or other search engines. This includes the publication of social media posts that encompass the topics of popular public interest in your chosen field.

Publication of reviews, patient feedback, and testimonials go a long way in creating an impact and attracting new clientele.

Social media presence:

With more people using social media daily, the need to show some presence in these sites becomes a prime player in the service industry. In healthcare, posting informative content to spread awareness and improve public health, in general, can attract a lot of following and give you and your clinic the necessary marketing.

Presently, paid partnerships have proven to be one of the most successful ways to get noticed when done with adequate research.

Personalised content:

Using SMSs, emails, and messages on apps like Whatsapp to provide personalised information or reminders of appointments, offers, new additions to the clinic, etc. increase the loyalty of existing patients. It also improves communication and facilitates a way to get more patients or contact through positive referrals.

Constantly upgrade your strategy:

The best part of digital marketing is the ability to look at figures and statistics. This helps in the evidence-based analysis of different parameters and a chance to keep evolving as new trends emerge.

If a particular post, video, message, or topic is garnering more interest and approval from the viewers, the best strategy would be to post more information and content on these topics.

Therefore, due to the versatility and widespread success of these digital marketing strategies, failure to engage in these might not be useful for your practice. Adequate research on trending topics, identifying the target audience, creating a good website, sharing useful content, and engaging with your audience are the ultimate ways to achieve digital marketing success in your clinical practice.

Doctors however understandably focus on achieving clinical excellence and do not always have the time or expertise to engage in other technical aspects such as digital marketing. This is where an IT partner like Curie comes into play. Our digital marketing experts know exactly how to give you that push you need online and get your brand noticed by more viewers.

For more info or to avail a free demo/trial,  log on to https://curie.health / or call on  +91-87788 26667

DENTAL CLINICS AFTER COVID19 LOCK-DOWN

Most dentists who own a dental clinic are skeptical regarding how the dental clinics will run following the lifting of the covid19 lockdown. Some of the effective ways to ensure a cushioned effect of the lockdown are

• Follow up on all patients who missed an appointment that was due during the lock-down period

• Any patient who had called or connected virtually for a consultation, query, or issue should be contacted. Those with persistent issues can come back to the clinic for treatment.
• Follow up all regular patients to inform that the clinic is open and that they can approach you in case of any issues.
• Engage in different marketing strategies online and offline to promote your clinic’s brand name.

• Offers and promotions on commonly sought after treatments such as braces or scaling.
• Tie-ups with third-party payment companies, insurance companies or similar strategies which will ease the payment stress of the patients
• Introducing new changes to the clinic such as a new and effective clinic management software that will not only make the daily running of the clinic easier but also helps to attract new patients.
• Encourage your existing patients to refer your clinic to others seeking a dentist
• Build a strong network with patients, dental labs, finance companies, IT companies, and fellow dentists to increase contacts, share knowledge and widen your business circle
• Organize events such as dental camps and dental health promotion camps in and around your locality
• Build trust with existing patients by offering them quality care and good follow up routines
• Be easily available and accessible to anyone who needs dental treatment

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• Widen online presence to make sure that patients who search for a dentist in your locality or elsewhere can find your clinic easily.
• Reward patients for loyalty, sticking to appointments, referring others, etc.
• Make sure new patients feel comfortable in your clinic and all staff are trained to be courteous and skilled

• Be professional and slightly flexible to patient demands and timings
• Build a strong referral policy with companies around you for their employees
• Organize dental health promotion drives through online, direct and print media
• Business analytics to identify areas of revenue generation and statistics.

Some of these above tasks is best done with the help of professional support. We at Curie. Health ensures a complete range of services that will help you in the best way to get back on track.

Visit us on https://curie.health/ or call 8778826667 for a free demo or trial!