Niharika Agrawal

About Niharika Agrawal

Experience in the clinical and fitness fields in order to rehabilitate from disease to…

Experience

1. Senior Physical Therapist

   Tower Health

   Feb 2013 — Present · Reading, PA, US

   Clinical contributions:• Evaluate patients, and discuss findings and plan of care with patient, family, and members of interdisciplinary team to implement plan of care. Re-evaluate status to achieve patient satisfaction and patient-identified goals, per Medicare guidelines. Autonomously responsible for patient intake and treatment lifecycle including discharge planning of patients.• Extensively educate patients and families to improve quality of life, maintain gains, and progress toward continued improvement post-discharge from skilled PT. Recommend transitions to fitness programs and coordinate the same through regular cadence with exercise physiologist/ fitness instructor. • Specialize in skilled manual therapy using myofascial and soft tissue techniques and joint mobilization along with therapeutic exercise programs.• Supervise physical therapy students in evaluation, treatment skills, and practice during their clinical affiliations as an APTA certified clinical instructor.Non-clinical contributions:• Author and conduct skill-based competencies for PTs and PTAs across 12 outpatient clinics to periodically certify skills.• Represent the hospital and provide treatment as an intervention arm physical therapist to 200 subjects in a research study on the impact of physical therapy in acute decompensated heart failure patients, being carried out across 3 hospitals.• Organize ~35 clinical affiliations for PT/OT/SLP students with state-wide universities for placement across all the outpatient clinics with transition to full-time hire of some among these.• Devised standardized templates and standards for documentation of manual therapy, resulting in improved uniformity and efficiency of patient-sharing across 12 outpatient sites.• Devised clinical pathways for joint replacements and spinal pathologies as part of bundle payments by Medicare to optimize reimbursement for the organization.

Skills

• Spine
• Mobilization
• Spinal Manipulation
• Manual Therapy
• Clinical Research
• Rehabilitation
• Strength Training
• Clinical
• Myofascial Release
• Orthopedic
• Sports Medicine
• Therapeutic Modalities
• Treatment
• Biomechanics
• Injury
• Fitness
• Orthopedics
• Musculoskeletal
• Sports Injuries