Best Physical Medicine Specialist in Kushtia - Book Appointment

Years of Sewing, and Now My Neck Will Not Turn

I am thirty-five, and I earn from home, sewing and doing embroidery work on order. The work is quiet, it pays, and for years I assumed it cost me nothing but time. I was wrong about the cost. It was quietly collecting in my neck, a little more each season.

Now the neck turns only part of the way. To look behind me I have to turn my whole body with it, like a much older woman. One shoulder has joined the trouble. It stiffens as the working day goes on. Hoisting my arms up to hang washed clothes on the line has become a job in stages. Hang a few pieces, rest my arms, hang the rest.

No single accident did this, so no single course of treatment ever looked at it. What I need is a physical medicine specialist in Kushtia, a doctor whose work is rebuilding movement that has narrowed down over years. DoctorBD24's Kushtia doctor directory groups doctors by their field and area, and going through it helped me work out which kind of specialist I should be looking for.

1 available specialists found

Dr. Taposh Kumar Ghosh

Qualifications MBBS, BCS (Health), FCPS (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation), EULAR Fellow - Rheumatology (Switzerland), CCD (Diabetes) (BIRDEM)
Location Coart Para, Kushtia

Years of Sewing, and Now My Neck Will Not Turn

It built up the way my work does: quietly

There was no day when my neck broke down. There were thousands of days of sitting bent over a frame, head down. First I stopped turning my head fully. Then the shoulder began to ache by afternoon.

My family noticed before I admitted it. My daughter asked why I turn my whole body when someone calls from behind.

She reads my earlier reports before she plans anything

I have seen doctors about the aching before, and there are reports from those visits. A physical medicine specialist wants that paper first. She reads what was found and what was already tried. Only then does she examine the neck itself: how far it turns each way, where the movement stops.

Nothing is decided before the examination.

Practice that fits between the sewing orders

The plan she described is guided exercise in small sets, slotted into my day. A few minutes of practice, then work. A short set in the afternoon, when the stiffness builds. Each stage asks the neck and shoulder for a little more than the last one.

At the reviews she measures the turn again and adjusts the stages. She is plain that rebuilding takes time.

When a problem is not hers to treat

She also said something I did not expect. If the examination points to a problem that belongs to another kind of specialist, she will tell me early. She will not keep me practising in the wrong direction. For problems of a different nature altogether, the same listings include general surgeons in Kushtia among the district's other doctors.

My tablets stay on their own track

I take a couple of regular medicines, and this plan does not touch them. They continue exactly as prescribed, same doses, same times. Guided exercise is added beside a prescription, never instead of it. If a change is ever needed, only the doctor who prescribed it decides that.

What I asked her first

Did years of sewing really do this to my neck?

Long hours in one bent position, season after season, can narrow movement down bit by bit. The examination shows what can be worked on.

Would a month of complete rest fix it on its own?

Rest eases the aching, but stiffness built over years does not usually unwind by itself.

Can I keep taking sewing orders while I practise?

Mostly, yes. The plan is built around your working day, with short sets between orders.

How will we know the neck is loosening?

The turn is measured at each review and compared with the visit before.

What if the shoulder improves but the neck does not?

Say so at the review. The stages can be rebalanced toward the neck, or she may decide another specialist should look at it.

What sudden trouble should send me to a hospital at once?

Treat these as emergencies, not as things to mention at the next visit. One side of your body weakening without warning is one. Losing command of your urine or stool is another. A fall after which an arm or leg will not move cannot wait either. Neither can hard pain arriving with fever. Any one of them means hospital now.

Ad

Sponsor Space Available

Place your banner here to reach thousands of patients daily.

Sponsored

Grow Your Practice

Premium placement for hospitals & doctors.