Lexington Woman (Issue V, 2009)– From Bombay, India to Lexington, SC: Hima Dalal of Vital Energy, By Elaine Samples.
If you are an avid reader of Lexington woman or a person who frequents our fashion shows and other events around town, the name Hima Dalal probably registers some recognition. We featured Hima in a previous edition of her work with fibromyalgia patients, have discussed her work with breast cancer patients and other various forms of cancer. When I met Hima two years ago, it was obvious that she was passionate about her work. She told me of her plans for a new facility and wellness center and over the last two years, I have had the opportunity to watch as she achieved that dream....
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Lexington Woman (Issue VI, 2009) - Aqua power
Vital energy Occupational & Physical Therapy Center Helps Patients to perform rehab through Aqua Therapy By Hima Dalal
Aquatic Classes Vs. Aquatic Therapy?
“Vital Energy is the only rehab Center in the Columbia / Lexington area to offer a Hydroworx Pool with a state of the art underwater
treadmill”....more
Lexington Woman (Issue IV, 2009)– Vital Energy, By Susan Moore.
Fibromyalgia is a very isolating disease. Little is known about it and some doctors still won’t accept it as a disease. As a sufferer, I have found it difficult to find help that works for me. I have spent the last few years in search of doctors, therapists, and medicines that would relieve my pain. I eventually discovered that the physical pain, no matter how devastating, is only a part of the disease....
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Healing health and wellness mother daughter team
(Issue 8 side 2) By Heather McNair
Hima Dalal is growing name in Lexington with her Energy Therapy.
Hima is an occupational therapist that uses that uses traditional Indian remedies for relief, healing and rehabilitation. She owns a wellness center that helps patients with fitness, pain from fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, acute chronic pain from orthopedic and/or, musculoskeletal disorder, and even breast cancer, just to name a few diagnoses....
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Robin Vaugan-Parler on how she got her life back (Issue 9)
Imagine this, you are in an automobile accident, not once but twice because of a drunk driver. Both accidents are within two years of each other. You go through years of treatment, five surgeries, various techniques to alleviate the pain, sleep sitting straight up for decades, and to top it all beat an addiction to pain medicine....more
Occupational and alternative therapy help change a life (Issue 10)
I thought I pulled a muscle in my back, or maybe that I had a kidney stone" says Marsha Alverson. "It was the most severe pain I had ever been in, even worse than giving birth to two children." After a trip to ER at Lexington Medical Center, and every kind of scan you can imagine, this sixty-one year old wife and mother found herself in the middle of a fight against breast cancer......
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Living with Fibromyalgia -Why Should I Do Occupational/Physical Therapy? (Issue 11) By Lori Samples Duncan
Fibromyalgia produces widespread body pain and tender points in joints,
ligaments, muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues. Fibromyalgia has
also been linked to fatigue,exhaustion from head to toe, morning stiffness,
sleep problems, headaches, numbness in hands and feet, depression, anxiety,jaw pain, and IBS. In addition, they also feel that someone has unplugged their power supply....
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Cardiac Rehab at Vital Energy (Issue 12) By Ruth Chapman
I met Hima Dalal, Occupational Therapist and owner of Vital Energy Occupational Therapy and Wellness Center in Lexington. We had a long talk about cardiac rehabilitation and other heart condition which need rehabilitation of which Vital Energy has to offer its cardiac patients. She told me about an 8 years old patient named Ben....
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Sports Injury and Occupational Therapy (Issue 14)
It is difficult to articulate the commitment that Hima Dalal serves each patient at her practice. I can tell someone a hundred times and I am still amazed when someone says to me,(after they go in and see her themselves), ”Hima is so wonderful. I don’t know how she does it, but I feel so much better from the first visit.” Some people are just lucky enough to get to use their gifts as a career....more
Other Articles
Occupational Therapy Program Helps Mastectomy Patients (Healthy Lifestyles - Oct. 2009)
By Hima Dalal, OTR/L
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Modified radical mastectomy continues to be the most frequent treatment for breast cancer. The diagnosis of cancer of the breast, and the subsequent loss of one or both breasts, can bevery traumatic.Plastic Surgeon scan offer the option of reconstructing the breast following the removal of cancer....
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Inaugural Conference of Hindu American Seva Charities -White House (7-29-11)
President Obama’s call to service Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnership Advisory
Council recognized and appreciated Hindu Seva Organization and individuals at the
White House......
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Physical/ Occupational/ Aquatic Therapies
(Healing Health and Wellness) By Hima Dalal
Vital Energy Wellness & Rehab center offers occupational and physical therapy services for adult and pediatric patients. Our unique approach to therapy combines traditional and alternative therapies to achieve maximum rehabilitation and wellness for the whole patient. Our facility is equipment with the latest therapy equipment; for example, low-level laser therapy utilizing our Chattanooga five action machine and multiple resistance training and cardiovascular equipment
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Fascia
The Fascia is very densely woven muscle covering the muscle,bone, nerve,artery, and organs. Fascia is one structure that exists from the head to the toe without interruption which is placed in a three dimension web. The Fascia is made up of connective tissue. Injury, trauma, surgery, and poor posture causes scarring in fascia very easily since it is a connective tissue....
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Healing Myofascial Injury With Therapy By Hima Dalal
Have you ever been in a car accident and experienced whiplash? In the aftermath of such a tragic event, you may have experienced what is called myofascial pain syndrome. Simply described, myofascial pain syndrome is our body's way of reacting when fascia is injured or traumatized. Myofascial injuries seem to occur more routinely than ever, which is why it is important to know how fascial injuries are caused and what to do in the event of a fascial injury....
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Healing and Wellness: Using Complementary and Integrative Medicine...more
Healing Health & Wellness Complementary & Integrative Medicine (Mother/Daughter Team) By Hima Dalal
Vital Energy Wellness and Rehab Center, conveniently located in Lexington, SC, with its owner Hima Dalal, offers physical/occupational therapy services along with her staff, to help individuals achieve mental, physical and spiritual wellness by blending alternative therapies with conventional occupational/physical therapy.....more
Healing Myofascial Injury With Therapy, By Hima Dalal
Have you ever been in a car accident and experienced whiplash? In the aftermath of such a tragic event, you may have experienced what is called myofascial pain syndrome. Simply described, myofascial pain syndrome is our body's way of reacting when fascia is injured or traumatized....more
Healthy Lifestyles of the midlands (Oct 2009) – Occupational Therapy Program Helps Mastectomy Patients, By Hima Dalal, OTR / L: Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women. Modified radical mastectomy continues to be the most frequent treatment for breast cancer. The diagnosis of cancer of the breast, and the subsequent loss of one or both breasts, can be very traumatic. Plastic Surgeons can offer the option of reconstructing the breast following the removal of cancer. Breast reconstruction serves as one element in emotional rehabilitation, which minimizes the psychological trauma of the diagnosis....more
Lexington Woman (Vol V, 2009)– Introducing Sneh Patel of Vital Energy., By Elaine Samples.:
2W: First of all tell us about your educational background?
Sneh: I have a Bachelors Degree from the University of South Carolina with a major in Exercise Science and a minor in Public Health.
W2W: What has your own set of qualifications and abilities brought to the Vital Energy Family?.....more
Women2Women - By Sara Beth Haring
Hima Dalal has been published in more than 100 national and international newspapers, journals and magazines. She has presented lectures and made media appearances discussing therapy, health and healing. Hima regularly conducts workshops on reiki- complementary therapy in medicine, sports fitness and nutrition in the US and India...more
Good News for Bad Backs, By Hima Dalal
To stay alive and healthy, your back need to move every day. The right kinds of motion nourish your back and help keep it flexible and free of pain....more
India
Hima Dalal, OTR/L, AIOTA, has a dream. It is to see the United States and other industrialized Western nations embrace the ancient therapy practices of her native India. “I would like to acquaint the world – Americans in particular- with the heritage of rehabilitation that India has to offer, approaches such as acupressure, yoga techniques that I believe have therapeutic value.” says Dalal. “These approaches have been in existence for 5000 years. The value of using them is that you, the therapist, must become very involved with the patient, providing to the patient considerable personal attention. By contrast, technology cannot deliver the kind of psychological comfort found in human touch.”....more
Posture Please, By Hima Dalal
If clothes make the man, then posture makes the person. Both are the obvious outward manifestations of the inward individual. Expressions of the self, so to say. It is the rare person who will not slouch when scolded by a superior or walk walk taller, straighter when he has had a good day at the office.....more
How To Deal With Stress Effectively, By Hima Dalal
In these modern times, men and women work long hours, eat fast food, travel in rush traffic, stay up late, worry about money, and face many new illnesses which can cause extreme anxiety and frustration. All of these situations may cause numerous physical, mental, and emotional tensions....more
Occupational Therapy Service Now Available, By Hima Dalal
Chronic pain...Arthritis...Learning disabilities...If your life has been disrupted by one of these conditions, Occupational Therapy can help you gain independence and lead a more productive, satisfying life. ...more
The Times of India -Health, Retired Hurt?
As stadiums turn into battlegrounds and players get increasingly competitive, the demands made on their bodies reach unnatural level. Each year, dozens of sports persons are wither temporarily or permanently sidelined because of sports injuries....more
Bhupathi Still Not Fully Fit, Gets Back to Business, By Akshay Sawai
Mahesha Bhupathi left for Paris last night after a two-hour fitness test at the In Shape Fitness and Rehab Centre, Borivali, in the afternoon. The tennis star had suffered a groin injury during the Heineken Open in Singapore earlier this month. The previous week in Shanghai, Bhupathi had aggravated an abdomen injury....more
