Apollo Clinic, one of the leading chains of multi-specialty clinics in India, recently partnered with Fix Health, a healthcare company that specializes in providing AI-assisted physiotherapy. Through this partnership, the clinic chain is bringing care from the top experts across India to a patient’s home via in-clinic, at-home & online care. The AI ensures precision in tracking the movements of an individual. The technology platform opens access to physiotherapy beyond regular clinic hours opening it from 6 am to 9 pm every day.

Apollo Clinic is also conducting regular camps across its societies & clinics of AI-based posture assessment tests that have been developed by the Fix Health’s team of engineers from IIT Bombay & BITS Pilani. Patients visiting the clinics have to simply pose in 2 positions while an expert, using a mobile phone captures the patient’s posture & movement through the Fix Health app. The app then automatically assesses the postural health status of the patient using AI & delivers the report on WhatsApp in less than 1 minute. Apollo Clinic has already used Fix Health for posture & ergonomic assessment of corporate desk job workers where more than 25% have been found to have forward neck posture by 11 degrees - thus showing potential early risk of neck & back pain.

With the help of Fix Health’s network of 70+ physiotherapists, Apollo Clinic is providing physiotherapy services for 250+ conditions & 10+ treatment areas including back-neck pain, shoulder-knee pain, post-operative rehabilitation, adult & pediatric neurology rehabilitation along with pre & post pregnancy care. Apollo Fix Health’s pain-relief services have been research-proven & include a detailed consultation followed by a personalized treatment program from the repository of 6000+ exercises. It can be availed by patients from their mobiles now.

Speaking on the partnership, Sushant Kinra, Head, Primary Care, Apollo Health & Lifestyle said, “At Apollo Clinics, we always look to pioneer the latest technological developments to help our patients. With increasing long sitting jobs & sedentary lifestyle, we have witnessed muscle & joint pains to be tops conditions faced by Indians. The role of physiotherapy is vital even for neurological rehabilitation, pre-post pregnancy cases as well as in elderly population. Our vision is to make physiotherapy accessible & affordable every Indian. Fix Health is a unique startup that combines their physiotherapy experience of 34 years with the cutting edge AI tools to advance physiotherapy services to new heights. We see tremendous potential for it in the future and look forward to using them for several physiotherapy-related services.”