Dhananjay Kaushik
Summary
Resourceful and innovative Physiotherapist with over 20 years experience in optimizing players recovery, reduction in injuries and leading team of multidisciplinary SSSM professionals to achieve the desired outcomes. Thrives in dynamic and changing environments requiring focused decision-making and multitasking.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Physiotherapist
Board of Control for Cricket in India
07.2022 - Current
- Managed acute and chronic conditions with full understanding regarding complex therapy needs.
- Brainstormed complex cases with the best professionals around the globe to achieve the desired outcome.
- Organized and prioritized workload and delegated responsibilities to other team members.
- Conducted clinical assessment and evaluation to determine player needs.
- Researched and stayed abreast of current treatment modalities by attending professional development opportunities.
- Reported complex issues to senior management and engaged in remediation.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to provide holistic care for patients.
- Implemented policies and procedures with utmost working ethics while communicating effectively to team members.
- Accepted clinical responsibility for designated patient caseload and effectively organized clinical priorities and service requirements.
- Conducted CPD for the team.
Asst Physiotherapist
Delhi Capitals(JSW GMR Cricket Pvt. Limited)
02.2019 - Current
- To undertake musculoskeletal screening of the players and document it for planning prevention, rehabilitation & management. To ensure recovery and manage load of the players for performance optimization during pre-season & in-season. To track & manage players' injury & rehab in off-season & throughout the year as well.
Head of sports physiotherapy & rehabilitation
Inspire Institute of Sport
07.2017 - 06.2022
- Developed and built the SSSM team of India's biggest & first privately owned high performance centre, Inspire Institute of sports
- Led a team of 12 physiotherapists, S&C's, Exercise physiologist working across various sports like Cricket (Delhi Capitals), boxing, wrestling, Judo, Football (BFC), kabaddi (Haryana Steelers), athletics, Lawn tennis, Swimming and devising and supervising various protocols for screening/injury prevention/rehabilitation/performance augmentation using advanced rehab techniques and hands-on current manual therapy approaches.
- Ensured recovery & performance enhancement of athletes using various modalities and practices in consultation with multidisciplinary team.
- Program designing & coaches education towards SSSM aligned coaches education program for various federations.
- Annual performance review & recruitment of team.
- Collaboration with other institutions of high performance towards research collaboration and up-skilling of SSSM staff
- The processes put in place bought India it's first individual Olympics gold medal and various other World champions, Asian games and many major sporting medals
Head Physiotherapist
Nav Jeevan Ortho Medical Center
05.2010 - 05.2017
- This was a part time job where I worked in the evening hours under orthopaedic surgeons to treat post traumatic and surgically operated patients.
- I got extensive exposure of managing various soft tissue & bony injuries across wider age groups and the rapport I developed with the patients & surgeons kept me hooked on to this job for a very long time till I finally could not continue any further due to my sports physiotherapy commitment & schedule.
Sports Physiotherapy In-charge
Manav Rachna Sports Academy
08.2008 - 04.2014
- As in-charge of MRSA, I got opportunity to work with Badminton, Shooting and Volley-ball players and manage the team of physiotherapist working under me.
Chief Physiotherapist
Anglian Medal Hunt Company Limited
04.2011 - 03.2014
- This position required me to screen, assess and devise injury prevention & rehabilitation protocols for all athletes sponsored by AMHC Ltd. and update the respective stake-holders about the prognosis and RTS timelines.
- These comprised athletes from various sports like Boxing, Shooting, Athletics, wrestling.
Asst Prof. & Clinical head
Manav Rachna International University
04.2007 - 03.2014
- This position entrusted me the responsibilities to teach the UG physiotherapy students about various clinical assessment methods and techniques and apprise them about the current EBP in usage across the globe for most effective outcome during rehabilitation.
- I also happen to guide many students for their research work and exposed them to hands-on assessment and decision making while being on the field as a physiotherapist.
Education
Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner -
Kinesio Taping Association International
04.2020
Ringside physician course - undefined
United States Olympic Committee
10.2018
ASCA Level-1 (S&C Coach) - undefined
Australian Strength & Conditioning Association
08.2018
Dynamic Taping Instructor - undefined
Dynamic Tape Global Limited
04.2018
USA Physiotherapy professional equivalent - undefined
New York University
10.2016
Masters of Physiotherapy - Sports Medicine
Chaudhary Charan Singh University
06.2016
Post Graduate Diploma in Health. Sciences. (PGDH Sc.) - Applied Ergonomics
Annamalai University
03.2010
Bachelor of Physiotherapy - undefined
Kurukshetra University
09.2005
Skills
- Collaborative problem-solving
- Athlete performance optimization
- Effective team collaborator
- Strong ethical standards
- Conducting research
- Emergency response procedures
- Advanced manual therapy
- Quality improvement initiatives
- Objective performance testing & prescription
- Focused on consistent, quality care
Timeline
Senior Physiotherapist
Board of Control for Cricket in India
07.2022 - Current
Asst Physiotherapist
Delhi Capitals(JSW GMR Cricket Pvt. Limited)
02.2019 - Current
Head of sports physiotherapy & rehabilitation
Inspire Institute of Sport
07.2017 - 06.2022
Chief Physiotherapist
Anglian Medal Hunt Company Limited
04.2011 - 03.2014
Head Physiotherapist
Nav Jeevan Ortho Medical Center
05.2010 - 05.2017
Sports Physiotherapy In-charge
Manav Rachna Sports Academy
08.2008 - 04.2014
Asst Prof. & Clinical head
Manav Rachna International University
04.2007 - 03.2014
Ringside physician course - undefined
United States Olympic Committee
ASCA Level-1 (S&C Coach) - undefined
Australian Strength & Conditioning Association
Dynamic Taping Instructor - undefined
Dynamic Tape Global Limited
USA Physiotherapy professional equivalent - undefined
New York University
Masters of Physiotherapy - Sports Medicine
Chaudhary Charan Singh University
Post Graduate Diploma in Health. Sciences. (PGDH Sc.) - Applied Ergonomics
Annamalai University
Bachelor of Physiotherapy - undefined
Kurukshetra University
Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner -
Kinesio Taping Association International
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