Welcome to VMS USA
Voluntary Medicare Society USA is a public charity incorporated in commonwealth of Virginia. From the very inception VMS USA has worked for supporting Voluntary Medicare Society of Kashmir. VMS of Kashmir is a socio-medical organization dedicated to the care, treatment, and rehabilitation of physically and mentally challenged persons.
Services VMS provides
Physiotherapy
The physiotherapy lounge at SRC is fully equipped with all the state-of-the-art equipment to provide the therapies like mat exercises, electro, hydro, developmental , vibration therapy, Bladder & bowel management, Gait training. Care is taken to provide Pediatric developmental therapy to children in isolation for their concentration on techniques.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapists train patients in Activities of daily living ( ADL ) by relearning a variety of daily activities like eating, dressing and personal hygiene; Besides sensory integration therapy, hand therapy, Splint making, behavior modification, Home & environmental modification, transfer techniques, Posture and economics, Cognitive Perceptual Re-training. Instructions are given both to the patient and family on the use of the equipment as well as daily living.
Prosthetics and orthotics
In collaboration with International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC, Geneva) we have established a prosthetic and orthotic center for persons with limb amputations. The center is fully equipped with modern gadgets and technology using the best material available in international market. The limbs and splints are provided free of cost to the needy after a process of assessment for eligibility. The patients are discharged after providing gait training by physiotherapists specially trained for the purpose.
Assistive Technology
Assistive technology devices like mobility aids are provided after proper assessment and taking community into consideration for purposeful usage. We are fully equipped with state-of-the-art gadgets and modalities for customizing mobility aids. We provide both active and passive wheelchair training. Aids for eating, writing, wheel chair pushing especially for Spinal injuries patients of very high quality & material are also made & patients trained to use them.
Speech therapy
Auditory and Speech Training utilizes certain manual and technical devices to develop listening skills and impart training for appropriate speech production.
Following equipment is available at the center that is used to record and assess the hearing loss in children and adults with hearing impairment:
• Brain stem evoked response audiometer (BERA)
• Pure tone audiometer (PTA)
• Doctor Speech
• Speech Trainer
• Computer
Developmental therapy
We aim at the holistic development of the infant or young child in communication, thinking and motor skills through the use of intervention techniques like neuro-development treatment, postural management, counseling, and exercise therapy.
Shafaqat
Voluntary Medicare Society is a combination of different departments which work independently to provide different kinds of support to challenged individuals based on their needs.
Shafaqat Rehabilitation Center (SRC)
Shafaqat Rehabilitation Center (SRC) at Voluntary Medicare Society is a specialty medical rehabilitation center providing physical and cognitive rehabilitation services.
With about 40 years of experience with physically challenged, Voluntary Medicare Society has realized that a challenged person can be restored to a condition from where he/she can live independently and maximize to restore normal life with a comprehensive post health care management. This thought lead to the foundation of Shafaqat Rehabilitation Centre in the year 2007. The program is run under consultation of one of its primary members who has a spinal injury himself and has been in a wheelchair since 1987. SRC is a piece taken from his experience as a spinal injured person and his recovery and complete rehabilitation at the National Spinal Injuries Center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in UK. The program demystifies the realities of living in the community by addressing not just the medical but practical, emotional and social concerns of the people. Issues like relationships, security and confidentiality particularly in terms of partners, private space, children and parental roles are discussed in detail.
Shafaqat Special/Inclusive School
The special school is one of the bench mark of our organization established in 1995 for physically, mentally, speech and hearing challenged children.
The objective of the institution is to meet the unique needs of such children which otherwise is difficult to meet in the existing regular schools.
Shafaqat Prosthetic & Orthotic Center
In collaboration with International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC, Geneva) we have established a prosthetic and orthotic center for persons with limb amputations.
The center is fully equipped with modern gadgets and technology using the best material available in international market. The limbs and splints are provided free of cost to the needy after a process of assessment for eligibility. The patients are discharged after providing gait training by physiotherapists specially trained for the purpose.
Additional services
Hydrotherapy
Due to physical properties of water like relative density, surface tension, buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, turbulence & temperature, it helps in treating various ranges of physical & psychological ailments including pain relief.
Peer counseling
A VMS member who is a well rehabilitated spinal cord injured person from National Spinal Injury Centre Stoke Mandeville London and thus has a fair knowledge of bodily impact injury and its social impact on a person’s life and his family remains available at the center for counseling of the patients and his/her family.
CAM Therapy
CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicines) therapy focuses upon the treatment of multiple ailments by naturopathy, medicated oil, steam and other healing program. These are often provided in combination with other mainstream medical therapies. Various practices are: • Pain Management. • Weight reduction packages. • Stress management program.
Early intervention
Neonatal/young kids are intervened for observation of early deficits / deficiencies and necessary consultation . Awareness camps within the VMS campus & outside as far place as Tangdar on LOC are conducted on regular basis.
Sports program
Spinal injury patients especially young are provided various kinds of sports activities to build up their strength & trained for taking active part in sports in the society as normal human beings or Para-lympics.
Vocational training
Vocational Training courses such as commercial art, mehandi art, glass painting, fabric paint and basic computer trainings are conducted in collaboration with Kashmir Govt. Polytechnic College and NIELT for enrolled children above the age of 14 years as well as for the patients by the trained professionals so as to enhance their earning and productive skills. The computer center has been registered as a service center by the NIELIT