Faculty Profile

Bio

• Dr.P.Antony Leo Aseer, PhD working as Professor & Principal at Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Physiotherapy, SRIHER with 23 years of teaching experience following post-graduation. He has received Doctorate in Physiotherapy in the broad field of orthopedic rehabilitation & a certified Orthopedic Manual Physical therapist from Institute of Therapeutic Sciences, Michigan.
• His research interests include joint replacement rehabilitation, manual therapy, low back pain, sarcopenia ; chronic pain management through cognitive functional therapy and pain neuroscience education.  He has 33 research publications in indexed journals (H index-6) with 200 citations, owns authorship of three linguistically validated questionnaires in Tamil and obtained copyrights for the literary works related to physiotherapy profession.
• He was instrumental in creating structured, integrated clinical reasoning form for undergraduate and postgraduate learning and has derived formulas for predicting the walking distance following joint replacement surgeries from his research work. He was the primary investigator in a funded clinical trial and served as co-investigator in four funded research projects.
• He spearheaded the physiotherapy department towards quality improvement and patient safety, developing policies, procedures, care pathways, development of physiotherapy manual, drafted quality standards interpretations of NABH and educating physiotherapists at all levels in quality standards. He has served as a member of the board of studies, doctoral committee, research advisory, academic council, promotion committee, ethics committee, IQAC to external universities across India. He has served as a Chairman of the University Grievance Redressal Committee since 2022.
• He has received 11 awards for his professional excellence of which Bhave national award for best scientific presentation in musculoskeletal physiotherapy 2022 & Dr.Jayapal Gold medal for maximum publications in physiotherapy requires a mention. He has chaired various scientific sessions, organized national, international conferences, workshops and has served as resource faculties for more than 60 conferences/ workshops/scientific presentation/invited talks.

Educations

Research Interest

Manual Therapy, Chronic Pain, Replacement Rehabilitation & Sarcopenia

Projects

Design, Development, and Effectiveness of SRIHER EXercise System which measures exercise adherence among musculoskeletal disorder individuals: A Randomized Controlled Cross trial

Effect of circuit training on muscle mass and strength among perimenopausal women with Sarcopenia.

It is a randomized controlled trial to find the effectiveness of a circuit training exercises on muscle mass and muscle strength among 96 perimenopausal women with sarcopenia for 12 weeks. Pre and post-test values of body composition analysis and muscle strength for all the subjects will be analysed and documented .

Total amount sanctioned : Rs. 1,00,000/-

Role: Co-investigator

Exploring the Efficacy of Manual Therapy in Vestibular Rehabilitation and the Role of Serum Otolin - 1 as a Biomarker in Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo patients"

This project is on finding an efficient rehabilitation protocol for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo patients using serum otolin -1 biomarker after an treatment for 2 weeks for which Rs. 1,00,000/- intramural fund has been sanctioned.

Total amount sanctioned : Rs. 1,00,000/-

Role: Co-investigator

“A study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Litemed’s pain management device – Double blind, Randomized, controlled, multi-centric study”

This funded clinical trial is on finding an efficacy of portable pain device for musculoskeletal conditions.

Total amount sanctioned : Rs. 3.06,000/-

Funding ageny: Litemed Pvt Ltd.,Bangalore

Role: Co-investigator

Awards & Recognitions

CHANAKYA AWARD

CHANAKYA AWARD was awarded for prime contribution in the upliftment of physiotherapy profession at Nehru College of Physiotherapy, Coimbatore in June 2024.

GREATER CONTRIBUTION AWARD

GREATER CONTRIBUTION AWARD for excellence in physiotherapy field was awarded by Chettinad Academy of Research & Education, Chennai in June 2024

Bhave award

Bhave award for the best scientific presentation in musculoskeletal physiotherapy at the Society of Indian Physiotherapists in May 2022.

Icon in Physiotherapy

Icon in Physiotherapy award was conferred at KG NEXUS 2022 by KG college of Physiotherapy, Coimbatore in 2022.

Award of Professional Excellence

Award of Professional Excellence “ Scroll of Honour” was awarded by the Faculty of Physiotherapy, MAHER, Chennai in 2019.

Best Presentation Award

BEST PRESENTATION AWARD for the outstanding presentation in “TKR Rehabilitation” by the Physiotherapists Association of Tirunelveli.

Best Physiotherapist Award

Mr.Jayapal best research publication Gold medal award in Faculty of Physiotherapy by SRU in 2015.

Significant Contribution Award

Significant Contribution Award was conferred by the The Indian Association of Physiotherapists at New Delhi in 2012

Best Physiotherapist Award

Best Physiotherapist Award was awarded by The Indian Physical Therapists Welfare Association at Madurai in 2013

Scroll of Honour

Scroll of Honour was awarded by South Kanara Physiotherapy Teachers Association at Mangalore in 2012

Awarded second place in scientific poster presentation

Awarded second best place in scientific poster presentation at 43rd National annual conference of IAP at Hyderabad in 2005

News

Membership

Life member: Indian Association of Physiotherapists

The governing organization of Indian Physiotherapists.

Life member: Society of Indian Phsyiotherapists

The governing professional organization of Indian Physiotherapists.