Beyond beauty at Bougainvillea
Clinic now offers state of the art physical rehabilitation
Maura Curley
The lavender colored former fort, perched on a hillside overlooking the harbor in Tortola’s Road Town, has long been famous for its aesthetic and reconstructive surgery.
Now Bougainvillea Clinic has added state of the science physical therapy (known as physiotherapy in the BVI) to its services.
Sunil Paudel, a physiotherapist and acupuncturist, has positioned the clinic to begin offering physiotherapy for joints, bones and muscles. Paudel says the clinic wants to be the premier place in the Caribbean to assist people with rehabilitation of all kinds.
Paudel waa born in India and is currently working on a masters degree in pain management in the U.K. He says there is no other facility in the Caribbean that addresses chronic pain.
Paudel wants to combine the best of western technology with traditional wisdom to create a personalized treatment plan for patients suffering from chronic pain or those needing rehabilitation after injury, surgery, stroke or cardiovascular problems.
In additon to its professional staff of experts, the clinic is investing in several machines to provide maximum benefits.
These include an electronic traction machine, which releases pressure on nerves and a short wave thermy machine to provide penetrative infrared current that relieves pain. Paudel says a newly invented IFT therapy machine can send electric current for stimulating weak muscles.
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Photo: Sunil Paudel at Bougainvillea Clinic in Tortola British Virgin Islands.
virginvoices.com photo by D. B. Bostdorf
Maura Curley is publisher of virginvoices.com
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