Author profile
Dr Dharam P. Pandey
HOD and Consultant — Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Sciences, Manipal Hospitals, Dwarka — 25 years of clinical practice, research and institutional leadership in Indian rehabilitation science.
Dr Dharam P. Pandey is a physiotherapist and neurorehabilitation specialist. He is Chief Editor of the clinical content published on this website and the developer of the F-MATS framework.
Biography
Dr Dharam P. Pandey has dedicated over 25 years to advancing physiotherapy and rehabilitation sciences in India. Since entering clinical practice in New Delhi in 1999, he has built a career spanning three domains at once — direct patient care, published clinical research, and the design of rehabilitation services at institutional scale.
He is HOD and Consultant, Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Sciences, Manipal Hospitals, Dwarka; Managing Director and co-founder of APARC Healthcare Private Limited — now 12 centres across Delhi, Gurugram, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Pune — and Director of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Sciences at ShardaCare HealthCity, Greater Noida.
He also serves as National Chairman of the Drafting & Quality Standardization Committee of the Indian Association of Physiotherapists, and is a Past President of its Delhi State Chapter — an active role in shaping national physiotherapy policy and education standards.
His clinical focus is neurorehabilitation — stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and Parkinson’s disease — and his research sits where that work meets emerging technology: brain–computer interfaces for motor recovery, frequency-tuned electromagnetic field stimulation, and AI-supported telerehabilitation. Over two decades of practice he developed F-MATS, the assessment and treatment framework now used across every centre he leads.
“The best rehabilitation does not stop at restoring function. It restores a person’s belief that life can still be full — and then proves it.”
About this website
Physiotherapist India — an initiative of Dr Dharam Pandey
physiotherapistindia.com is an editorial initiative of Dr Dharam Pandey and the Physiotherapist India Team. It publishes evidence-based physiotherapy and rehabilitation resources for clinicians, students, patients and carers. Every clinical page names its writer and links to the sources behind it, and is reviewed by the Physiotherapist India reviewer team — or marked “Review pending” until that review is done. Dr Pandey is Chief Editor.
The site carries no booking, consultation or clinical service, and does not refer readers to any provider. How content is written, reviewed and corrected is set out in the editorial and review policy; the clinicians who write and review it are listed on Authors, contributors and reviewers.
Three areas of work
Clinical practice
Neurorehabilitation at Manipal Hospitals, Dwarka, and across the APARC network.
- Stroke, paralysis & spinal cord injury
- Parkinson’s disease & TBI
- Vertigo, back pain, sciatica, knee pain
- Pelvic floor & post-COVID rehabilitation
Research
Over 70 peer-reviewed publications and five-plus randomised controlled trials, focused on technology-assisted motor recovery.
- Brain–computer interfaces in stroke
- Frequency-tuned ELF-EMF stimulation
- AI-powered telerehabilitation
- Spinal cord injury & functional independence
Teaching & leadership
More than 100 CME lectures and conference presentations, alongside department building and professional-body service.
- CME lectures & conference faculty
- F-MATS clinician training
- Department & programme design
- IAP — National Chairman, QASD
F-MATS in brief
Functional Movement Assessment & Treatment Strategy — five steps, developed by Dr Pandey. The full framework is described on the F-MATS page.
| Step | What it covers |
|---|---|
| F — Functional assessment | Real-world movement quality evaluated with validated outcome measures. |
| M — Movement analysis | Kinematic and neuromuscular analysis identifying compensatory strategies. |
| A — Approach determination | Evidence-based selection across manual therapy, neuroplasticity-driven exercise and technology-assisted rehabilitation. |
| T — Targeted treatment | Patient-specific treatment built around measurable functional goals. |
| S — Systematic progression | Data-driven progression with periodic outcome-measure reassessment. |
Career
| When | Role | Where | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 — present | Platform, expansion & stroke partnership | APARC Healthcare · ShardaCare HealthCity | Launched PhysiotherapistIndia.com, grew APARC to 12 centres, and established the ShardaCare Stroke Clinic partnership. |
| 2023 — 2024 | Principal Investigator, Telerehabilitation RCT | Digireha Inc., Tokyo, Japan | Led the Japan–India telerehabilitation randomised controlled trial (n=32, CONSORT-compliant), completed 2025. |
| 2020 — 2022 | BCI & ELF-EMF research programme | Frontiers in Neurology · Brain Stimulation · Stroke (AHA) | Published work on brain–computer interfaces and frequency-tuned electromagnetic field therapy in post-stroke motor recovery. |
| 2019 — present | HOD and Consultant | Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Sciences, Manipal Hospitals, Dwarka, New Delhi | Appointed to lead the department; established the hospital’s Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Programme. |
| 2012 — 2018 | Expansion across Delhi/NCR | APARC Health & Motion · MAHE Manipal | Scaled the centre network, ran an active research programme, and completed an MBA in Healthcare Management at Manipal Academy of Higher Education. |
| 2009 | Founder & Managing Director | APARC Health & Motion / APARC Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. | Opened the first centre and began developing the F-MATS framework. |
| 2002 — 2008 | Advanced international training | Bobath International Network · United Kingdom · Spain | C-NDT certification, COCMT manual therapy (UK), and Doctor of Osteopathy at the National University of Medical Sciences, Spain. |
| 1999 | Entry into clinical practice | New Delhi | Began clinical physiotherapy practice. |
Qualifications and memberships
Degrees
- PhD — Rehabilitation Science (Neurorehabilitation)
- DO, Doctor of Osteopathy — National University of Medical Sciences, Spain
- MBA, Healthcare Management — Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Clinical certifications
- Certificate in NDT / Bobath Concept — IBITA, UK
- Advanced Certificate in NDT (Gait & LE) — NDTA, USA
- Advanced Certificate in NDT (UE & Trunk) — NDTA, USA
- Certificate in Vestibular Rehabilitation — USA
- Osteopathy & Modified Chiropractic — English Osteopathic School, UK
- Spinal Structural Balance / Anatomy Trains — Germany
- Pilates — Polestar Pilates Institute, Hong Kong
- PG Certificate, MPR Concept Manual Therapy — Italy
- GCP — International Council for Harmonisation
Management & leadership
- Advanced Operations Management & Analytics — IIM Kozhikode
- Patient Safety & Quality Improvement — Johns Hopkins University
- Lean: Fixing Healthcare Delivery 2.0 — University of Florida
- Strategic Leadership & Management — University of Illinois
- Foundations of Public Health Practice — Imperial College London
- Research Methods — University of London
Memberships
- Indian Association of Physiotherapists — National Chairman, Drafting & Quality Standardization Committee; Past President, Delhi State Chapter
- Indian Academy of Neurology
- World Stroke Organisation
- World Federation of Neurorehabilitation
- American Society of Neurorehabilitation
- Indian Federation of Neurorehabilitation
- American Physical Therapy Association (Int. Part.)
- International Society of Exercise and Immunology
- International Network of SCI Physiotherapists
Awards and honours
In the media
Dr Pandey’s work and commentary have appeared in:
Gallery
Awards, teaching and the rehabilitation facilities Dr Pandey has built and led.
Awards and honours 8
Workshops 7
Lectures and media 6
Rehabilitation facilities 7
Publications
Selected publications, awards and media are listed on the Publications page. The full record is on ORCID (0009-0005-6525-7514).
Disclosure
Dr Pandey is HOD and Consultant at Manipal Hospitals, Dwarka; Managing Director and co-founder of APARC Healthcare Private Limited; and Director of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Sciences at ShardaCare HealthCity. He developed the F-MATS framework and was Principal Investigator of a telerehabilitation trial with Digireha Inc. This website does not refer readers to any of these organisations, and it does not provide clinical care or appointments. See the editorial and review policy.
Contact and profiles
For academic, speaking and collaboration enquiries: info@physiotherapistindia.com. This site does not take clinical enquiries or appointments.