Poornima Raman Head - Medical Services
Head - Medical Services
Joining Date: 02 January 2012
Education: Masters in Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
Experience in Sport Sector: Poornima has an experience of 11 years working as a physiotherapist for the sports like Tennis, Judo, Weightlifting, Swimming, and Athletics. She had the opportunity to keep the World of Sports clean by donning the role of a Doping Control Officer and being part of Anti-Doping Educational programs. She also had an opportunity to work in the field with Shooting, Archery & Boxing at the start of her career at OGQ and grown on the field as a Professional seeing the evolution of Sports Science in the country and to be a part of the whole process. Over the years she has worked with Badminton, Wrestling, and Para-Athletes as well.
Role in OGQ: Poornima is Head of Sports Sciences for the Senior Athletes Program and also oversees the functioning of the entire Sports Science team of OGQ. Her role and responsibilities are divided between Sports Science and Administrative work. Her job is to ensure the whole Sports Science program runs smoothly, with the focus for athletes to get the best possible solutions to their concerns with the best evidence-based Assessment, Diagnosis, and treatment plans.
Additionally, her foremost duty is that of a Sports Physiotherapist who works on the field to ensure the athlete is at their fittest, anticipate problems, and finding ways to prevent them by providing a comprehensive prehab program, assessments, load management, and manual therapy sessions and in case of injuries implement an injury management plan with a focus on optimizing their performance.
Favourite Athlete: Sachin Tendulkar
Aalaap Jawadekar Team Leader - Sports Science Para Athletes
Team Leader - Sports Science Para Athletes
Joining Date: 15 April 2015
Education: Master of Musculoskeletal & Sports Physiotherapy
Experience in Sport Sector: 8 years of working with athletes in Boxing, Shooting, Archery, Weight-Lifting, and Para-athletes towards the unique combination of Strength, Agility, Focus, Speed Endurance, mental sharpness, and most importantly Skills.
Role in OGQ: In OGQ, Aalaap works with various elite athletes in his capacity as a physiotherapist to ensure that the athletes are 100% ready for their training sessions and competitions. He also ensures that athletes remain free of pain or any kind of injury, and in any unfortunate incident, his role is to prepare them to get back to their highest function in a quicker time.
Over the last 3 years, Aalaap has also been working on building, customizing, and troubleshooting the platform for the OGQ team to meet the demands specific to each sport, when it comes to documenting assessments, training-competition scores, notes, blood tests, injuries keeping track of daily markers for progress for athletes. The role also involves vast back-end work to keep the platform updated and functional ground staff and vice versa. Currently collaboratively working on analyzing, looking at trends of assessments, and creating meaningful case studies for us. With so much data coming in from the field, for the ultimate aim of performance enhancement, the Athlete Monitoring System and the analytics it offers, play an integral part in the athletes everyday training regime.
Favourite Athlete: Rahul Dravid
Zeinia Samar Team Leader - Sports Science Senior Athletes
Team Leader - Sports Science
Senior Athletes
Joining Date: 25 May 2017
Education: Master’s in Sports Physiotherapy
Experience in Sport Sector: 9.5 years of working experience as a Sports Physical Therapist with National & International level athletes in various sports including Football, Wrestling, Shooting, Athletics, etc. Zeinia has worked as:
● Chief Physiotherapist with Sports Authority of India(SAI) for training camps for RIO Olympics 2016.
● Team Physiotherapist for National Senior Women Football Team (AIFF).
● Sports Physiotherapist with CRPF Sports teams.
● Brazil International Football Academy (BIFA).
● BCCI for 3 years (2017-2020) in the capacity of a Doping Control Officer.
● SDTI (Sports Drug testing international) as a Doping Control Officer in India.
● She has also represented as a Sports Physio in numerous International Competitions including FIFA tournaments, Asian Games 2018, CWG 2018, World Cups, World Championships and Tokyo Olympics 2020.
Role in OGQ: Zeinia is working as a Senior Sports Physiotherapist for the last 4.5 years with elite athletes & currently a Team Leader-Sports Science for Junior athletes. She was a part of the Olympic Contingent Shooting team(and partly for female wrestlers) as a Team Physio in the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Apart from shooters, Zeinia has also worked with a few para-athletes & wrestlers. She has also been working to raise awareness about Anti-Doping amongst the Sports Science team as well as the athletes by providing information in the form of e-Books/questionnaires/sessions about anti-doping rules & regulations, also conducted Anti-doping session in CEP 2018.
Favourite Athlete: P.V. Sindhu
Shubham Gupta Team Leader - Sports Science Junior Athletes
Team Leader - Sports Science
Junior Athletes
Joining Date: 01 September 2017
Education: M.P.T. (Sports Medicine)
Experience in Sport Sector: 5 Years in the sport of wrestling where every type of skill is involved to excel the game forward. As a physiotherapist, there is a lot of scope to learn that helps in the field of Physiotherapists.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Shubham is working with the wrestlers and taking care of their Physical fitness, Prevention and injury management, Rehabilitation, Mental health, and as well as managing the players in every way in their preparation for the gold in Olympics.
Favourite Athlete: Michael Jordan
Tajinder Kaur Team Leader - Nutrition
Team Leader - Nutrition
Joining Date: 01 November 2016
Education: M.Sc. in Food and Nutrition, RD (Indian Dietetic Association)
Experience in Sport Sector: 6 years of working with both abled-body and para-athletes from the sports like badminton, shooting, archery, athletics, wrestling and boxing.
Role in OGQ: Tajinder is a nutritionist to Olympians and other elite athletes from different sports. She takes care of end-to-end nutritional management of athletes to improve their sports performance. She also mentors Nutritionists at OGQ.
Favourite Athlete: M.S. Dhoni
Siddharth Sakalle Senior Physiotherapist
Senior Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 01 January 2013
Education: Masters in Sport, Manual therapy and Orthopaedic Physiotherapy from University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Experience in Sport Sector: 12 years of experience in various sports Boxing, Badminton, Athletics, Shooting, Table Tennis, Football, Soccer, Cricket, etc. within India and Australia.
Role in OGQ: Siddharth takes care of elite players in the Senior and Junior category for physical fitness and to keep them fit for training sessions as well as for competitions. He focuses on keeping them free from injury and pain as much as possible so that they can give their 100% at National, International, and Olympic events.
He is working on the prevention of injuries with a prehab program based on Physical and biochemical assessments. During injury design injury management program based on clinical and manual assessments. Additionally, he works closely with the team of Strength & Conditioning, Nutritionist, Psychologists plus mentoring and train new physio’s who works in various sports.
Favourite Athlete: M.C. Marykom and Sachin Tendulkar
Sumita Jain Senior Sports Physiotherapist
Senior Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: --
Education: Master of Physiotherapy (Muskuloseletal and Sports-Major)
Experience in Sport Sector: 09 years of experience in various sports.
Role in OGQ: Working with the elite athlete in sports like-Shooting, Boxing, Archery, Wrestling, Para Shooting, and Para Athletics to ensure athlete stays injury-free and works at their optimal level. She plans a prehab/ rehab program by understanding individual biomechanics of the sport and. She also schedules regular blood collection, monitoring wellness, and training plans.
Favourite Athlete: M.S. Dhoni
Mobya Duyu Senior Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Senior Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Joining Date: 01 October 2015
Education: Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
Experience in Sport Sector: Working as Strength and Conditioning Coach in Boxing with M.C. Marykom and assisting with the development of a fitness training program. Also supervising training routine, body weights management and composition, tracking progress and adjusting exercises plans as well.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Mobya’s role is as a Strength and Conditioning Coach to support the athletic development and sport performance of athletes. His role also holds the responsibilities that include strength and conditioning program in Gym and ground-based training. He conducts fitness assessment, evaluate, monitor and design extensive individualized training program for athletes.
Favourite Athlete: M.C. Marykom, Vinesh Phogat
Akshay Vijay Bhapkar Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Joining Date: 31 January 2016
Education: Certified Personal Trainer (ACSM)
Experience in Sport Sector: 5 years of working experience with athletes in Archery, Wrestling, and mainly with shooting. His work is to establish and maintain a strength and conditioning program for athletes, with the three major goals of improving athletic performance, reducing athletic injuries, and teaching lifelong fitness and movement skills.
Role in OGQ: To develop programs by evaluating current physical conditioning knowing the various sports and associated exercises, tailoring strength programs for specific needs, reduce sports-related injuries or the aggravation of such injuries during practice sessions, and scheduled contests by being knowledgeable of the injuries sustained in the sport and proper prevention methods.
Favourite Athlete: Lance Armstrong
Shaikh Abdul Wahid Sports Physiotherapist
Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 01 March 2016
Education: Masters of Sports Physiotherapy
Experience in Sport Sector: Abdul has 8 years of experience in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy. H has worked with some of the best sports academy that includes Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, Minerva football club, Harvest tennis academy, San holistic fitness solution, and Hindustan FC. He also has experience in physiotherapy support during practice and competition, fitness assessment, rehabilitation, return to sports planning, and assist the sports science team. Reporting injuries to the coaching staff and updates on all players rehab progress.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Abdul plan and implement programs of physiotherapy that includes Therapeutic exercises, manual therapy, education, the use of electro-therapeutic modalities and hydrotherapy; Physiotherapy support during preparation and competition phase; Quarterly carry out fitness assessment along with sports science team; Monitoring player’s recovery, training load and daily wellness; and Design rehabilitation plan for injured athletes.
Favourite Athlete: Lionel Messi, Novak Djokovic
Sumya Jyoti Haldar Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 15 November 2016
Education: Masters in Physiotherapy (Sports)
Experience in Sport Sector: In 6 years, the last 3 years, Sumya has worked with the Boxing team. He has observed lots of injuries and trauma happen during the sparring or training time. Mostly upper extremity and back injuries. But regular prehab can prevent the above up to a certain level. Boxing is all about technique and tactics. Bullfight techniques cannot help the athlete to perform long. It requires more precision and explosives punches.
Role in OGQ: A tenured and seasoned sports physiotherapist having entrusted to keep our Olympians and future Olympians to the best of their physical form and help them to keep the agility to maintain the highest performance in their sports trade. Overseeing the steadfast physical form high-performance sportsmen. Helping high-performance sports athletes to maintain their endurance and fitness parameters. Ensuring day-to-day injuries recovery and rehab for optimum balancing of physical and psychological synchronization of players as warranted for high-performance players in Olympic level platform.
Favourite Athlete: M.C. Marykom
Deepika Sinam Sports Physiotherapist
Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 01 December 2016
Education: Masters in Musculoskeletal Disorders and Sports Physiotherapy
Experience in Sport Sector: In 4 years, Deepika worked with the boxers at Sarita Regional Boxing Academy (SRBA), Manipur mostly with the junior boxers. It involves proper communication, planning, motivating, and positive reinforcement while dealing with the younger athletes to bring out the best in them. Specialization was in Taping, Dry Needling, and Manual Therapy.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Deepika is assigned at the SRBA for Junior Boxers. Her role is Regular Reporting and Monitoring on the wellness of Athletes and their training program. She mainly focus on early diagnosis, prevention, injury management, and proper planning & rehabilitation program for the injured Athletes.
Favourite Athlete: L. Sarita Devi
Pushkar Ganoo Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 12 June 2017
Education: Masters of Sports Physiotherapy
Experience in Sport Sector: 4 years of working experience in various sports like Badminton, shooting archery, and boxing. Managing athletes' training loads, Prehab during training camps. Also keeping a tab on any medication of athletes to keep them dope-free. Documentation and back end work of athlete monitoring.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ Pushkar worked with an archery camp in Pune. He was also a part of the National Badminton camp at Hyderabad for two and half years working with elite badminton players, who were preparing for Tokyo Olympics’ He was associated with Junior Boxers during #KheloIndia school games. He was also associated with shooting during multiple tournaments.
Favourite Athlete: Roger Federer, Cristiano Ronaldo
Siddhant Shipurkar Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Joining Date: 24 September 2017
Education: Masters of Science (MSc) in Sports and Exercise Sciences from Manipal University, Karnataka, India
Experience in Sport Sector: Total five years. One year in sports science department at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital, Mumbai, with sports like wrestling, cricket, gymnastics, football, and squash athletes; and then next four years with sports like Badminton, Boxing, Athletics, Shooting, Table Tennis, Wrestling and Archery focusing mainly on maintaining and improving athletic performance and reducing athletic injuries by incorporating functional movement pattern and lifelong movement skills.
Role in OGQ: As sports strength and conditioning specialist, Siddhant conducts sports specific fitness assessment and ensure that the athlete is at its fittest, provide detailed periodization and conditioning program to maintain athletes peak, anticipate and prevent and problems by prescribing corrective exercises, assessments, load management, avoid injuries and attend peak performance at the right time.
Favourite Athlete: Cristiano Ronaldo
Abhishek Wagh Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 25 January 2018
Education: Masters of Sports Physiotherapy
Experience in Sport Sector: Four years in terms of preventing injuries of athletes by regular documentation and implementation of Sports specific Prehab Exercises and Conditioning regime, and to provide Physiotherapy treatment and rehab for ongoing injuries. Look after for medications of athlete they consume during certain illness in conjunction to Doctors and to see that medicines are Dope free.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Abhishek worked with Project leap Shooters, who are preparing for the Olympics. He was also part of the National Archery Team at Asian Championship 2019, Thailand. Worked with top boxers ranked boxers and juniors in Badminton. He looked after and worked extensively with Para-athletes as well.
Favourite Athlete: Virat Kohli
Sharmada Venkat Sports Nutritionist
Sports Nutritionist
Joining Date: 15 June 2020
Education: MSc. Sport & Exercise Nutrition
Experience in Sport Sector: Last 2 years, Sharmada has worked with endurance athletes like marathoners, cyclists and triathletes. At OGQ she works with junior athletes and para-athletes in Archery, Shooting, Boxing, Athletics and Badminton.
Role in OGQ: Sharmada works with athletes to improve their performance through nutrition. She assesses blood reports, designs nutrition plans, and ensures that the athletes are provided with the right supplements. Her work with athletes includes one-on-one & follow-up sessions to ensure personalized performance-based nutrition planning and compliance with the nutritional guidelines.
Favourite Athlete: M.S. Dhoni
Lakshay Batra Senior Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Senior Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Joining Date: 01 February 2020
Education: Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist
Experience in Sport Sector: With an experience of 4 years in working at various locations with Wrestlers, and mainly with Para-athletes for Badminton, Javelin and High-Jump.
Role in OGQ: Working as a Strength & Conditioning Trainer for conducting sport-specific fitness tests, assessments for all the athletes and also periodizing and conducting Strength and Conditioning programs to improve performance with a focus on reducing the risk of injuries in athletes.
Favourite Athlete: Usain Bolt
Alok Kumar Senior Physiotherapist
Senior Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 01 May 2020
Education: M.P.T Sports Medicine
Experience in Sport Sector: In 3 years worked with the athletes from sports like wrestling , boxing , para- spots with the specialization in manual therapy dry needling and taping.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Alok is working on injury prevention, rehabilitation and to supervise conditioning programs for wrestling and Boxing athletes.
Favourite Athlete: Novak Djokovic
Umang Agrawal Consultant Sports Physiotherapist
Consultant Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 16 December 2020
Education: MPT in Musculoskeletal Sciences
Experience in Sport Sector: Umang is involved in both the contact sports i.e. Wrestling and Boxing, which are played at the Olympic level. He dealt in different age and weight categories to keep the athlete fit for their best performances before the matches and before the upcoming championships. He was the sports physiotherapist for UDUPI Tigers Cricket Academy during Mangalore Premier League season 3. During his studies, he worked as a Sports Physiotherapist during various sporting events, South Zone Inter-University Badminton Tournament Women, Karnataka State Inter District Junior Athletic Championship, Manipal Marathon.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Umang is working on injury prevention and rehabilitation of Wrestling and Boxing athletes to keep them fit and to achieve Olympic medals.
Favourite Athlete: Rahul Dravid
Dharamveer Yadav Sports Physiotherapist
Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 01 April 2021
Education: M.P.T (Sports) from Guru Nanak Dev University
Experience in Sport Sector: Dharamveer was the Sports Physiotherapist for Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Khalsa girls Hockey academy Amritsar, Punjab in 2019-2020. During his studies, he worked as a Sports Physiotherapist in the various sporting events, All india Inter-University tournament of Fencing, North Zone Inter-University Hockey Tournaments for Women and various other Inter-collegiate tournaments like football, Handball, Wrestling, Mixed Martial Art etc. and attended various camp of Inter-University games.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Dharamveer works on injury prevention, rehabilitation, supervise conditioning programs for wrestling and Boxing athletes, and to help them improve fitness and performance.
Favourite Athlete: M.S. Dhoni
Zeba Sports Physiotherapist
Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 01 April 2021
Education: M.P.T (Sports) from Jamia Millia Islamia
Experience in Sport Sector: Zeba was Sports Physiotherapist for Central Sports Teams in C.R.P.F Gurugram for the sports like Shooting, Swimming, Boxing, Badminton and DAGO’s( Officer trainees). She worked for the prevention, assessment, management, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries during the course of training and competitions (including the regular travelling with the Teams for various competitions). She has worked as a physiotherapist at various national and international tournaments and has done various dope testing assignments as a DCA as well.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Zeba works on injury prevention, rehabilitation, supervision of conditioning programs for elite junior athletes (athletics). She also worked with few Paralympic athletes who had glorious victory in Paralympics 2021 Tokyo.
Favourite Athlete: P.V. Sindhu
Mohit Dhariwal Sports Nutritionist
Sports Nutritionist
Joining Date: 01 May 2021
Education: MSc Sports Nutrition , UGC NET in Physical Education
Experience in Sport Sector: Mohit has been freelancing from 2019-2021 and over the years has worked with boxers and sprinters in Delhi NCR. He has also worked closely with Sports Academies. He worked with National level Wushu Players in his 6 month MSc project.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Mohit works with Junior & Senior athletes from wrestling, shooting, archery and athletics and attends to their nutrition requirements. He ensures complete monitoring of athlete’s health issues by arrange their blood test time to time and provide them a right supplement to support their training. His work with athletes includes one-on-one & follow-up sessions to ensure personalized performance-based nutrition planning and compliance with the nutritional guidelines.
Favourite Athlete: Virender Sehwag & Pardeep Narwal
Roma Joglekar Sports Physiotherapist
Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 10 November 2021
Education: Masters in Sports Physiotherapy
Experience in Sport Sector: More than 3 years experience in the Para sports- track and field, archery and shooting.
Role in OGQ: Roma works for the para athletes of OGQ. She is always available to travel whenever the athletes require sports science support. She keeps exploring and then executes advance techniques for the para athletes to excel in their field.
Favourite Athlete: Aliya Mustafina
Shubham Deshpande Sports Physiotherapist
Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 14 January 2022
Education: Master in Sports Physiotherapy
Role in OGQ: Working with the para athletes. For para shooting and para athletics, Taking Pre-hab and Rehab sessions, Fitness sessions and sports specific conditioning.
Favourite Athlete: Sachin Tendulkar, Rafael Nadal
Swapnil Singh Bist Consultant Sports Physiotherapist
Consultant Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 01 February 2022
Education: MSc Sports Medicine
Experience in Sport Sector: Swapnil worked in the field of sports since 2019. He has worked as a sports physiotherapist as well as a strength and conditioning coach for reputed organisations such as SAM Sports, Lassiter Tennis academy, Credo Table tennis academy, with the weightlifting, shooting and swimming team at Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Sports Medicine Centre and with The Football Link, Zinc Football Academy. He also worked for Fulwood and Broughton cricket club and Urmston Cricket club as a physiotherapist in England. He has expertise to help the athlete return to play as well as I conduct game specific training and prehab depending on the sports.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Swapnil works as consultant sports physiotherapist with the para-badminton athletes for the 6 categories having different wherein specific training, prehab and rehab requirements to enhance athletes’ performance and to prevent any injury. He prepares daily plans specially designed according to individual requirements of an athlete as well as their energy expenditure and also helps the athletes in the strength and conditioning aspect.
Favourite Athlete: Jacques Kallis and Tyson Fury
Charvi Bajaj Sports Nutritionist
Sports Nutritionist
Joining Date: 01 February 2022
Education: Masters in Food and Nutrition, UGC NET Qualified
Experience in Sport Sector: More than 3 years of working with abled-body and para-athletes of National, International as well as Olympic level athletes from sports like Badminton, Shooting, Archery, Table Tennis, Cricket, Taekwondo and Swimming.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Charvi works with Indian Cycling team at Delhi NCOE with the aim to improve their performance through nutrition. Her work with the cyclists involves one-on-one as well as group sessions. She is responsible for assessing their nutritional requirements and designing personalised nutrition plans. She also ensures that the cyclists are provided with the right supplements.
Favourite Athlete: Lionel Messi
Kshitij Bhoite Senior Consultant Strength and Conditioning Trainer
Senior Consultant Strength and Conditioning Trainer
Joining Date: 01 February 2022
Education: Masters in Sports Science and High Performance
Experience in Sport Sector: More than 2 and half years. Currently working with Shooting and Archery. Both are precision sport which require high level of mental as well as physical strength.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Kshitij has the responsibility of designing and supervising physical conditioning programs, Injury prevention strategies, tabs on the nutritional needs of the athletes and records of training programs for the athletes supported by OGQ.
Favourite Athlete: Rafael Nadal
A S Wungzip Zimik Consultant Sports Nutritionist
Consultant Sports Nutritionist
Joining Date: 01 March 2022
Education: M.Sc. (Sports Nutrition)
Experience in Sport Sector: During the Master's programme, Wungzip worked with national and international level Junior swimmers in an aspect to improve their performance through diet. She also participated in a study to assess the hydration status and Total Energy Intake and Expenditure of Badminton players in Suchitra Badminton Academy, Hyderabad and worked as an Intern in SAI, Manipur too.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, At OGQ, Wungzip is assigned to the Mary Kom Regional Boxing Foundation. She Prepares a cyclic menu to meet the nutritional requirements of the athletes. She also conducts one-on-one counselling and group sessions on various nutritional topics and supplements recommendation based on the needs of the boxing athletes.
Favourite Athlete: Yuki Ishikawa
Yogesh Kumar Sports Nutritionist
Sports Nutritionist
Joining Date: 01 April 2022
Education: M.Sc. (Sports Nutrition)
Experience in Sport Sector: Yogesh has experience working with national and international sprinters during his 6-months graduation project. He was a freelancer for 3 years i.e. from 2019-2022 and also worked with Sports Academies and wrestling academies.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Yogesh works with para-athletes in the sports of shooting, archery, badminton and athletics to meet their nutrition requirements. He also monitors the athlete’s health issues by arranging their blood tests from time to time and providing them with the right supplement to support their training, plus one-on-one & follow-up sessions with athletes to personalized performance-based nutrition planning.
Favourite Athlete: Rohit Sharma
Ashwini Patil Sports Physiotherapist
Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 21 April 2022
Education: Masters in Physiotherapy (Sports) from MYAS-GNDU, Amritsar
Experience in Sport Sector: Ashwini has worked from grassroots-level to professional athletes for the past 4 years. She has worked with Indian Rugby Football Union (IRFU) as a World Rugby-certified physiotherapist and team physiotherapist for the Senior National team (Men and Women) as well as various national and state-level rugby tournaments. She worked as a team leader for the Sports Science team at The Sports School, Bangalore a project by the Jain Group of Institutions and Center for Sports Science Bangalore. She worked as a sports physiotherapist at ABTP, Bangalore at the Padukone-Dravid Center for Sports Excellence with professional swimmers from Dolphin academy and badminton players from PPBA. Her point of interest for a few years includes human physiology and energy systems in different sports.
Role in OGQ: Ashwini is currently working as a sports physiotherapist with Vinesh Phogat where she was part of her journey for the Commonwealth Games as well as World Championship, 2022. She is responsible for injury prevention, rehabilitation and load monitoring for the senior and junior wrestlers in the Women's National Camp for Wrestling.
Favourite Athlete: Virat Kohli
Sanchita Mukherjee Senior Sports Physiotherapist
Senior Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 03 May 2022
Education: Masters of Physiotherapy in Musculoskeletal & Sports from RGUHS, Bengaluru
Experience in Sport Sector: Sanchita has a decade long experience working as sports physiotherapist with many elite athletes of India in Cricket, Tennis, Badminton, Football, Golf & Swimming.
Role in OGQ: Sanchita is working as a physiotherapist in OGQ and is currently working with Mirabai Chanu. In the past she had an opportunity to work with the Indian athletes in the sports of Shooting, Para-Athletes and Boxing.
Favourite Athlete: MC Marykom
Rohit Chhabria Senior Sports Physiotherapist
Senior Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 15 May 2022
Education: Master of Physiotherapy in Musculoskeletal Disorders and Sports
Experience in Sport Sector: Spanning over a period of 10 years, Rohit served as a physiotherapist for high performance athletes of various sports like Boxing, Judo, Wrestling, Athletics, Cricket and Badminton. He also worked in Professional Kabaddi Leagues.
Role in OGQ: Rohit contributes to the design and/or enhancement of existing evidence-based protocols for return to train and return to play processes. He manages the transition process in conjunction with the sports science team, ensures appropriate recovery and injury prevention strategies are adopted after training and matches.
Favourite Athlete: MS Dhoni
Saloni Karnawat Sports Physiotherapist
Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 01 June 2022
Education: MPT in Musculoskeletal Sciences
Experience in Sport Sector: Saloni worked with Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai for over 4 years; and has closely dealt with U-19, U-23, and Ranji Trophy Cricket teams, Pro Kabaddi League, Football Club (Goa FC) during pre-season assessment. Using evidence-based therapeutic treatment techniques she has worked with international and national-level athletes helping them with injury managment and rehabilitation plans.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Saloni is working on injury prevention and rehabilitation of Indian Shooting team athletes to keep them fit and help them achieve Olympic medals.
Favourite Athlete: MS Dhoni
Bhushan Dahikar Sports Physiotherapist
Sports Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 13 June 2022
Education: Masters in Sports Physiotherapy
Experience in Sport Sector: Bhushan worked in the 1st Khelo India school games as a medical support staff for the sports of swimming, football and athletics. Later Bhushan has worked with Railway Ranji cricket team, Shooting eminence shooting academy and finally with Minerva football as a senior physiotherapist and HOD previously.
Role in OGQ: Bhushan is responsible is to prevent injury (prehabilitation), rehabilitation, work on players fitness and conditioning and help them improve their performance for Wrestlers. Prior to working with wrestlers, he was working with the Indian shooting team.
Favourite Athlete: MS Dhoni, Rafael Nadal, Michael Jordon, Michael Philips
Chetna Mulchandani Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Joining Date: 01 July 2022
Education: Masters in Exercise and Sports Science, Bachelors in Physiotherapy
Experience in Sport Sector: Chetna has an experience of over 5 years as Strength and Conditioning Coach with various athletes from weekend warriors to professional athletes in different age groups and variety of sports. Chetna has worked with Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital where her primary role was sports rehabilitation besides injury prevention and performance enhancement programs for various athletes in various sports. She was also part of pre-season testing for Pro Kabaddi Jaipur Pink Panthers 6th & 7th edition and Puneri Paltan 7th edition. At Glennmark Aquatic Foundation, she worked with professional athletes for designing periodized and individual Strength and Conditioning plans for peak performance. At Corvuss American Academy also she worked with youth athletes for incorporating foundation of competent and confident movement from early age and enhance positive experience in Sports and lifelong participation.
Role in OGQ: As Strength and Conditioning expert, Chetna is currently working with Shooters. Her role being to conduct shooting specific physical fitness test, design individualized program for injury prevention, rehabilitation of existing injury if any, wellness and load monitoring and optimizing training conditions for best performance outcomes.
Favourite Athlete: MC Marykom
Sayali Manjrekar Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 25 Aprili 2022
Education: MPT in Orthopaedic and Sports Rehabilitation (Manipal Academy of Higher Education)
Experience in Sport Sector: Saloni has an experience of over 4 years where she worked as an on-field physiotherapist in sports like football, tennis and marathon events and in various Sports Rehabilitation centres. She has worked as a Team Physiotherapist of Bengaluru United FC, senior women’s team and as a part of medical team of Kerala Blasters FC in Indian Super League Season 7.
Role in OGQ: Saloni has completed a couple of assignments in Shooting and worked in the sport of Archery for a short stint, primarily working on injury prevention and rehabilitation of Junior & senior athletes by monitoring athlete’s recovery, daily wellness and planning rehabilitation programs.
Favourite Athlete: Sachin Tendulkar & MS Dhoni
Dhananjay Dubey Strength & Conditioning Trainer
Strength & Conditioning Trainer,
and Physiotherapist
Joining Date: 06 December 2021
Education: Master’s in Physiotherapy - Sports, Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach
Experience in Sport Sector: Experienced Physiotherapist, Strength and Conditioning Coach with a demonstrated history of working in multiple sports industry. Skilled in FMS, movement assessment, fitness testing, Musculoskeletal screening and Physiotherapy. Experienced in handling on - field and off - field Injuries in Sports Medicine and rehabilitation. Highly experienced in designing strength and conditioning programs, long term athlete developmental plans, sports specific & functional trainings. High performance specialist working with Olympian. Previously worked with Mumbai Cricket Association, Junior Indian Hockey team, Junior and Senior ITF (Tennis) athlete, Table tennis Olympic athlete.
Role in OGQ: Working with Elite men's boxing team. Injury management and rehabilitation during on season and off season. Physical Assessment and testing, biomechanical correction, prehabilitation for injury prevention, rehab designing and implementation, designing optimal fitness program to achieve high performance with elite, amateur boxers and wrestlers.
Favourite Athlete: MS Dhoni, Roger Federer
Yogesh Maruti Chavan Massage Therapist
Massage Therapist
Joining Date: 01 November 2021
Education: M.Sc. (Sports Nutrition)
Experience in Sport Sector: Yogesh has vast experience working with boxing sport (both amateur and professional), involving attack and defence with the fists.
Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Yogesh was initially working at the national weightlifting team. Now he is at the ASI Pune boxing team looking after youth, junior and senior boxers. I am looking also Asi Archery team.
Favourite Athlete: Milkha Singh