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The conference, titled Rehabilitation Options for Neurological Patients, will be held in the auditorium of the Centre for Mental Rehabilitation (CDR). The programme will start at 11 a.m. and presentations will be given in English. Headsets for simultaneous interpretation into Czech will be available for those interested. Registration is available through the Beroun Rehabilitation Hospital website.
The first to speak will be Prof. Kamila Řasová, PhD, from the 3rd Medical Faculty of Charles University, who has long been involved in the possibilities of physiotherapy for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and is also an expert guarantor of the whole programme. In her scientific work, she has shown that regular, properly indicated and controlled aerobic training has a positive effect on spiroergometric parameters, fatigue, depression and sleep quality in patients. As a result, subjective symptoms of exhaustion are no longer considered as a limit of exertion during rehabilitation as well as during normal daily activities. Which has significantly changed the approach to people with MS. Kamila Řasová has also long been involved in the use of neurophysiological knowledge in physiotherapy - the possibility of starting plastic and adaptive processes of the central nervous system and influencing psycho-neuro-endocrine-immune regulation. In Beroun he will present how these findings can be put into practice.
The second speaker will be gerontologist Marja Äijö, Ph.D., who is a senior lecturer in the physiotherapy programme at Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Kuopio, Finland. Marja Äijö has a long history of research in the areas of physical activity in the elderly, cardiovascular disease, falls prevention and health service utilization. Listeners can look forward to valuable insights with examples on the need for physiotherapy and its positive impact on the lives of people who experience the effects of ageing on various neurological diseases.
This will be followed by physiotherapist Bc. Janis Lukáš, Cert. MDT, who will be the keynote home speaker in the CDR auditorium. He will introduce the guests to the issues and practical techniques of physiotherapy for patients suffering from Parkinson's disease, which is one of the main focuses of his practice. Janis Lukáš brings more than 9 years of experience as a clinical physiotherapist and currently works at the Rehabilitation Centre of MUDr. Jan Calta Beroun Hospital and the private rehabilitation centre Physio-Reko in Prague.
After an hour break, an opportunity to meet in person over refreshments, the conference will continue with the fourth speaker. The floor will be given to Eija Partanen-Kivinen, MSc., who for the last 14 years has been an assistant professor at Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Kuopio, where she teaches mainly in the physiotherapy curriculum. She has prepared a lecture on neurological diseases and physical activity.
The last two presentations will be given by experts from the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Thessaly, Greece. The first will be presented by Assoc. Dr. Zacharias Dimitriadis from the Department of Physiotherapy, whose scientific work focuses on spinal pain and postural disorders. He is also involved in manual therapy, motor control and the development and validation of assessment tools for musculoskeletal and neurological patients. In the CDR auditorium, attendees will hear his lecture on how resistance exercises can be used to alleviate spasticity in selected muscles.
The incidence of stroke (stroke) is occurring in younger and younger year groups. The second guest from Greece , Dr. Thomas Besios, will speak about rehabilitation techniques to improve functional status in patients affected by CMP. His main area of expertise is neurological physiotherapy in children and adults. During his research, he also focuses on rehabilitation and treatment of neurological disorders. He has published in a number of scientific journals and frequently sits on scientific and organizing committees and conferences.
