Throughout October of this year, during a series of specialized practical classes held at the Educational and Research Laboratory of Prosthetics, Medical Rehabilitation, and Occupational Therapy of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, students of the Department of Biosafety and Human Health, enrolled in the specialty “Therapy and Rehabilitation” (“Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy”), developed their professional competencies under the supervision of instructors Ihor Khudetskyi and Alina Lytvynchuk. The training was conducted within the framework of the courses “Functional Diagnostics in Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy,” “Functional Diagnostics in Therapy and Rehabilitation,” and “Physical Rehabilitation in Traumatology, Neurology, and Pediatrics.”
Additional opportunities for mastering these disciplines and enhancing practical training in physical therapy — particularly prosthetic rehabilitation — have become available thanks to the significant expansion of the laboratory’s material and technical base, achieved through the acquisition of modern rehabilitation equipment supported by the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (grant 2023.04/0073 “Development of a Concept for a Multifunctional Prosthetic and Rehabilitation Center with an Innovative Educational Component for Patients with Limb Amputations”).
The educational process within these disciplines is aimed at developing students’ ability to conduct functional assessments of patients’ conditions, perform diagnostic tests, and apply modern methods of physical therapy and rehabilitation, particularly following limb amputations. The acquired knowledge and practical skills will be essential in the students’ future professional practice — in working with patients suffering from musculoskeletal disorders, trauma consequences, paresis, and paralysis, as well as with military personnel and children.
