Dr. Chaitali Santosh Vikhe (Physiotherapist)

Dr. Chaitali Vikhe is a highly motivated and accomplished Sports Physiotherapist with a strong background in sports rehabilitation, athlete performance enhancement, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, and evidence-based clinical practice. Holding a Master’s degree in Sports Physiotherapy, she combines advanced clinical expertise with extensive on-field sports physiotherapy experience across national, state, and district-level sporting events.She has worked with elite athletes through the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and various national coaching camps, providing injury assessment, rehabilitation, return-to-play planning, performance monitoring, and injury prevention strategies. Her experience spans multiple sports including boxing, athletics, football, volleyball, badminton, cricket, handball, kabaddi, swimming, fencing, gymnastics, hockey, weightlifting, and archery.In addition to sports physiotherapy, she has significant clinical exposure in musculoskeletal, neurological, pediatric, cardiopulmonary, and orthopedic rehabilitation through hospital-based training and rehabilitation centers. Her practice integrates manual therapy, dry needling, kinesiotaping, strength and conditioning, movement analysis, and individualized rehabilitation planning to optimize recovery and athletic performance.Dr. Chaitali is also an active researcher with multiple publications indexed in SCOPUS, PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, reflecting her commitment to advancing evidence-based physiotherapy practice.