“Safe, Efficient, and Dignified: Beyond Manual Handling.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My talk explored the paradox of progress<\/strong> – how, despite the explosion of assistive technologies and evidence-based practices, manual handling remains largely unchanged in many clinical contexts, often dictated by outdated norms and invisible hierarchies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I shared findings from my qualitative survey on the lived experience of moving and handling among individuals with spinal cord injuries<\/strong>, confronting the physical and emotional toll of being \u201ctransferred\u201d like objects rather than supported as human beings. These stories aren\u2019t just data points, they are calls for a more dignity-driven<\/strong>, person-centered<\/strong>, and technology-enabled<\/strong> approach to care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Huge thanks to Dr. Nishad Kassim<\/strong> and Dr. V. Sri Kumar<\/strong> for chairing the session and for creating space for these vital discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was deeply grounding to reunite with my spine family \u2014 friends, teammates, and mentors from Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute<\/strong>, especially my guide and constant inspiration Dr. H.S. Chhabra<\/strong>. Every time I stand on that ISSICON stage, I carry with me the clinical roots that shaped my values and the vision we\u2019re still building on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I took the knowledge about Moving and Handling from UK to India. To bridge continents and conversations \u2014 that’s the real privilege of this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n #ISSICON #ISSICON2024 #SpinalCordInjuryRehab #SCI #Research #ManualHandling #DignityInCare #Neurorehabilitation #RehabilitationLeadership<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ishmeet Singh (PT) Flew in from Cambridge to New Delhi not just across geographies, but across time, memory, and growth to deliver a talk at the International Spine and Spinal Injuries Conference (ISSICON 2024) on a subject that\u2019s long needed deeper conversation: “Safe, Efficient, and Dignified: Beyond Manual Handling.” My talk explored the paradox of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advancements-in-rehabilitation","category-conferences","category-spinal-cord-injury"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/rehabilitationessentials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1730041993500.jpg\")
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