Dr. Vijay Kumar - The Mission of the Michigan Physical Therapy Association in West Branch

Dr. Vijay Kumar has been a member of the Michigan Physical Therapy Association (MPTA) from his office in West Branch, Michigan since he founded his first practice in the area decades ago. Dr. Kumar and the MPTA have long had some of the same goals: to ensure that high professional and ethical standards are upheld throughout the state. Dr. Kumar has been known within the professional organization as a standard-setter himself, pushing for more aquatic physical therapy facilities in the community to help more people who would benefit and worked to allow patients to get physical therapy treatment without a referral from another doctor in Michigan.

The MPTA is an organization of physical therapists, students, and assistants dedicated to providing quality health care options for rehabilitation and the prevention of injury and mobility-reducing conditions are available for the people who need them throughout the state of Michigan. Dr. Vijay Kumar joined his facility in West Branch with the MPTA because of its emphasis on education and awareness in the community. For Dr. Vijay Kumar, a key impediment for people finding and using his facility in West Branch for their physical therapy needs is a lack of education on how physical therapy helps people recover range of motion and recover from injuries.

Dr. Vijay Kumar West Branch has used his association with the MPTA to draw patients and professional attention to his facility in West Branch. He is heavily involved in developing the MPTA’s message and hopes to count on its support during next year’s state representative elections, where he hopes to win representation of Michigan’s 103rd district.
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Dr. Vijay Kumar - West Branch Physical Therapist’s Three Benefits of Aquatic Physical Therapy

Dr. Vijay Kumar is a West Branch physical therapist with many years of experience helping patients dealing with all kinds of injuries and conditions regain their full range of motion and strength. Sometime after he first started his first clinic in West Branch, he started using aquatic physical therapy treatments to help patients instead of relying on traditional treatments. Here are three reasons Dr. Kumar has taken to aquatic physical therapy over traditional treatments in many cases:

• Even, firm resistance. To move in the water, you have to exert more energy and use more muscles. For some physical therapy patients, developing even, lean muscles while in rehabilitation is critical. Dr. Vijay Kumar uses the treatment pools at his facility in West Branch to help people develop this musculature that leads to faster and more complete recovery.
• Improved circulation. The warm temperature of the water facilitates better circulation to all extremities. The water itself exerts hydrostatic pressure on the body, which also helps with circulation. Better circulation is critical for some patients, according to Dr. Vijay Kumar or West Branch because it reduces swelling and improves the efficiency of the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the injury site.
• Soothing effect on muscles. Aquatic physical therapists use warm water for their treatments, between 92 and 96 degrees Fahrenheit usually. This has a soothing effect on muscles, especially for those suffering from muscle spasms and back pain, making it easier to move and complete the physical therapy exercises.

Dr. Vijay Kumar has worked with patients in West Branch for many years and swears by the effectiveness of aquatic therapy.
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Dr. Vijay Kumar - West Branch Physical Therapist Planning to Win Election

Dr. Vijay Kumar is a business leader and physical therapist specialist living and working in West Branch, Michigan. He has spent decades working in West Branch with patients from throughout the state and beyond who need his expert help rehabilitating physically after either serious injuries or because of a degenerative disease. Kumar has become increasingly involved in the local business community as well. He has joined the Michigan Physical Therapy Association and serves on the Rose City—Lupton Chamber of Commerce and helped them achieve some of their agendas. Now he stands ready to enter the 2016 race for the 103rd state district in the Michigan House of Representatives.


Every candidate for every possible political post, from the PTA to President, needs a stable of supporters from his or her community. Not only do these supporters need to stand with the candidate, they also need to donate and in some cases, publicly endorse their campaign. Dr. Vijay Kumar has used his community support in West Branch to build a network of donors and endorsers from positions of power. Candidates have to plan their campaign strategy around who can support them and donate to their campaign. They have to work hard, as Dr. Vijay Kumar has in West Branch, to convince powerful interests in the community that they represent them and their values match.

Dr Vijay Kumar West Branch has rallied many important allies to his side in preparation for his run for state legislature in 2016 and he plans on taking their support all the way to Lansing and the state capitol.

Dr. Vijay Kumar - West Branch Physical Therapist and Aspiring Politician

Dr. Vijay Kumar specialized in physical therapy out of medical school because he wanted to serve his community of West Branch in an underserved area. Dr. Kumar knew the troubles that many physical therapy patients found when they needed extensive treatment for their physical ailments. Many patients need extended care to regain full motion after accidents or as a result of degenerative diseases. Dr. Kumar opened a new physical therapy facility in West Branch and began working with patients to solve their problems. Soon he found himself becoming more involved with the local community as a business leader and an advocate in the professional physical therapist community. Dr. Kumar took it one step further when he decided to run for state office in 2015.

Dr Vijay Kumar West Branch

Dr. Vijay Kumar plans to run in the 2016 elections for the 103rd Michigan state district from his home in West Branch. After working with professional advocacy groups like the Michigan Physical Therapy Association for many years trying to make it easier for professionals like him to do their jobs and for patients to get the care they need, Dr. Kumar decided to expand his services to the community even further by running for office. Dr. Kumar believes that he can implement the budget and small business regulatory reform that can help everyone in his district.

Dr. Vijay Kumar has assembled a campaign team and lined up endorsements and donors ready to help him take office after the 2016 elections. He believes that his vision for the future of his district and the state will win voters over.

Fitness Ambassador - Crossing the Bridge

Dr. Vijay Kumar practices physical therapy in West Branch, Michigan, where he owns and operates five outpatient rehabilitation clinics. He leads an active personal life that includes a lot of exercise, and was appointed Michigan’s Fitness Ambassador.

“Being the fitness ambassador, I had the opportunity to run the Labor Day Bridge run across the Mackinac Bridge,” he says. The Labor Day Bridge Run is a non-competitive run across the Mackinac Bridge, which at some five miles in length is the third-longest suspension bridge in the United States, and one of the longest in the world. The run itself is a distance of about 4.3 miles, and takes place each Labor Day weekend before the annual Bridge Walk.

The Labor Day Bridge Run is a big deal in Michigan, and participants look forward to it at the end of each summer. To keep down congestion, only six hundred people are allowed to participate each year. The Mackinac Bridge is an engineering marvel, spanning the Straits of Mackinac and connecting Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. As soon as the last wave of runners depart, the annual Labor Day walk begins. The 2015 edition of the Bridge Walk was the 58th walk, and took place on September 7th. An estimated thirty thousand people took part.

Dr Vijay Kumar West Branch is committed to his personal fitness, so completing the run was not a serious challenge to him. He is a non-smoker and a non-drinker who exercises five days a week, and works with a personal trainer one day a week.

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Physical Therapy - People from All Walks of Life

 Dr. Vijay Kumar is a physical therapist and a highly accomplished health care provider. He has a Doctoral Degree in Physical Therapy from Boston University and a PhD in Social Science. He earned a Medical Doctor degree from the Xavier University School of Medicine, and is currently attending George Washington University in Washington, D.C. for his Masters of Public Health degree.

In his physical therapy practice, Dr. Kumar sees people from all walks of life. As he knows, physical therapy can address a wide range of issues. Something that a patient might think requires medication can more successfully be treated with physical therapy, thus not resorting to the use of drugs. It is a high benefit, low risk solution to many different ailments and conditions.

People who have sought the help of a physical therapist include those of all ages and backgrounds, who have medical conditions, injuries or illnesses that limit their physical mobility. Successful physical therapy treatment helps restore them to their previous level of functioning.

Primary care physicians often refer their patients to physical therapy, and with good reason. Because working with a physical therapist does not involve medications, it is considered a conservative option, and the conservative option is often the best one. For most patients, once they have been treated by a physical therapist and experienced its benefits first-hand, they become believers.

Dr. Vijay Kumar owns and operates five outpatient rehabilitation clinics in the West Branch, Michigan area. He also donates his time and services to the Ogemaw Hills Free Clinic, providing free physical therapy services to people who could not otherwise afford it.
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Food and Flavors

Dr Vijay Kumar West Branch is a native of India, but is now an American citizen who lives in West Branch, Michigan, where he has owned and operated a physical therapy practice for more than fifteen years.

He still loves Indian food, and is probably aware of the power food and flavors have to transport us back to another place. Dr. Kumar also loves to travel and to date has toured four continents. And an essential part of international travel, for most people, is sampling a wide range of local cuisines. There are those who say that people who travel internationally but restrict themselves to foods that are familiar to them, are doing themselves a real disservice.

It is through food, and shared meals, that people truly get to know about the people and cultures that they are traveling in. Food is an easy way to connect with the people who live where you are traveling, and once a conversation begins there is no telling what it might lead to. The common denominator of food thus serves multiple purposes.

But of course, sampling local cuisines isn’t for everybody. Some people may have dietary restrictions that limit the types of food that they are able to eat, and others might be content to eat those foods that are familiar. When he traveled to India as a member of the Beatles, drummer Ringo Starr recalls bringing along a huge supply of canned baked beans, because he was so concerned he would be unable to eat the local foods.

But whenever he ventures out from his home in West Branch, Dr. Vijay Kumar can look forward to sampling whatever cuisines he finds interesting.
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