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!

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!

BEST STRATEGIES TO OPTIMIZE PATIENT RETENTION IN YOUR DENTAL CLINIC

Patient retention is one of the most effective, yet tricky ways that contribute to the progress and substantiation of a dental clinic. Retaining existing patients comes with several advantages such as:

• It is more economical than obtaining new clientele
• Long-standing patients help to build a clinic’s reputation
• Increased referrals by word of mouth
• Boosts morale and spirit of clinic employees
• Building up trust and long-standing partnerships with the patients

Retaining patients is however not a cakewalk. It requires time and effort. Here are some tips to help you out:

• Develop a patient-centric dental clinic: Read more on this at https://curiedothealth.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/patient-centered-approach-to-clinical-practice/
• Building a one to one relationship with your patients: Patients like to have a sense of belonging when they visit a dental clinic. The best way to give them a memorable experience is by remembering the name of your patient, having a casual talk with them once a while, ensure they are comfortable and you communicate well with them.

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• Empower your patients to be able to make informed choices by analyzing and choosing the desired treatment from the choices you give them. Pushing a patient to do something that they do not want to do will lead to negative thoughts and failure to form a connection with the particular doctor.

• Always spend adequate time with your patients for consultation and treatment appointments and give them a feeling of ‘Value for Money’.Staying punctual also goes a long way in maintaining clientele.
• Ensure constant communication with patients. If a patient has finished a consultation appointment and is weighing their treatment options or has finished a treatment appointment, make sure to reach out to them and address any questions or queries. This will encourage them to come back for further treatment and review visits.
• Constantly stay connected with your patients by sending regular messages about upcoming appointments, review visits, missed appointments, etc.,

• Make yourself available to patients in case of any questions, queries, emergencies, etc. Speak to them over the phone personally if required. Failure to express your easy availability will lead to patients searching for other easily approachable dentists.
• Make different payment options available to your patients. In current situations, a patient might not prefer a dentist who charges in full. EMI options or third party payments have become increasingly popular and many patients lookout for these.

• Always be in step with the latest dentistry related technology, advancements, and innovations.
• Ensure the entire clinic team is aware of your core values and principals and they are taught how to put a patient first.

Following the above will improve your clinic’s patient retention capacity drastically. However, associating with a software partner such as Curie. Health will help out in several ways mentioned above.

From providing the clinic with the best technologically sound software, helping you keep in touch with patients through marketing, bulk SMSs, reminders and virtual consultations and helping you to provide patients with various payment options, Curie Health is the perfect solution you have been searching for!

Visit https://curie.health for more info and to get a free demo!

Patient-Centered Approach To Clinical Practice

The best and easiest way to make your existing patients come back and attract new patients would be by evolving into a ‘Patient Friendly’, ‘Patient-Centric’ dental clinic where all your services are designed to maximise patient comfort, satisfaction, accessibility to services and inclusion in decision making.

Some of the steps dentists can take to achieve this are:

1. Giving utmost importance to patient comfort and satisfaction

• You can ensure this by getting oral and recorded feedback of the patient after every visit
• training staff on how to be courteous, respectful, empathetic and engaging.
• Arrange for post-visit review calls and appointments
• Explaining the procedure and treatment plan to a patient clearly and effectively
•  Make sure any followup visits in case of discomfort or issues post-treatment are addressed properly and do not charge them for these visits unless necessary.

2. Individualised treatment plans

All of us need to understand that no two patients are the same and hence, every individual is entitled to choose their treatment plan after careful explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of every option available.

Patients should feel empowered to have a say in their treatment plan and this would give them the confidence to keep coming back to the same place for further treatment.

3. Giving maximum value for a patient’s time

• In this fast-paced world, no one has an excess of time to spare and dentists should keep this fact in mind while allocating appointments. The number of appointments should be kept minimum unless a longer treatment duration is medically warranted as in the case of orthodontic braces or re RCTs.
• A minimum time of 15 mins at least should be given to patients who come in for a consultation and should be extended accordingly based on the treatment initiated.
• Single-visit dentistry should be practiced wherever possible and the number of revisits to complete treatment should be kept minimal.
• Take time to answer the patient’s questions patiently and make sure the patient is convinced with their treatment plan.
• Make sure the front office staff are trained to explain any delays and increased waiting times to patients in the best way.

4. Practice holistic dentistry

Patients would always think twice about visiting a clinic where certain treatments or services are not performed. If a patient needs a treatment that you do not specialise in, make sure you have different consultants from other specialisations who would perform these treatments in your dental clinic. By doing so, a patient does not have to be referred to an outside clinic and he/she will hence save money, time and effort by not having to find another dentist or dental clinic for that particular service.

5. Offer membership benefits for regular patients or referred patients

• Any patient who is regular to your dental clinic should be occasionally recognised and rewarded for their loyalty. However small this gesture is, it would always encourage them to keep visiting your clinic. Rewards could be anything ranging from a thank you card to a discounted service or product.
• Likewise, any patient who refers your clinic to someone else should be identified and recognised similarly. This would always give way to more referrals and more loyal customers.

6. Build a one to one relationship with patients

Everyone loves to be remembered and kept in touch with. Always try to remember your patients by name and address them by using it. Also, keep in constant touch with patients using SMSs or other messaging apps to remind them about upcoming appointments, wish them on birthdays, update them about the latest clinic developments, offers on treatments, etc. This would allow them to be in constant touch with you and the clinic and will help to increase their trust and loyalty.

7. Allow various payment options

In the present world, limiting the patient to pay by only one or two treatment options would cause major discomfort for a few. Payment options like third party payments, part payments,  etc., should also be introduced or the convenience of the patient. Keeping in mind that dental treatments can be expensive, consideration for those who want to pay by different methods should be made.

Above are some of the best ways to engage your existing patients, improve their loyalty with your clinic, allow them to refer new patients and most importantly, ensure a steady clientele and revenue for your clinic.  Most of these methods are not completely achievable just by you and this is where we at Curie Health will be very useful for improving your clinic and working towards a patient- centric approach.

Be it bulk SMSs, marketing, appointment reminders, feedback collections or a platform to connect with your patients, Curie Health has got it all sorted! Log on to https://curie.health/ for a free demo.