Tag: rehabilitacja lecznicza

Profile of patients undergoing therapy in the field of therapeutic rehabilitation on the basis of the Act of May 9, 2018 on special solutions supporting persons with severe disability

Karol Wojciechowski, Krzysztof Mirecki, Marek Kiljański, Jan Szczegielniak

K. Wojciechowski, K. Mirecki, M. Kiljański, J. Szczegielniak – Profil pacjentów usprawnianych w zakresie rehabilitacji leczniczej na podstawie ustawy z dnia 9 maja 2018 r. o szczególnych rozwiązaniach wspierających osoby o znacznym stopniu niepełnosprawności. Fizjoterapia Polska 2019; 19(3); 168-172

Abstract
The aim of the study was an attempt to analyze rehabilitation services provided to patients with a severe disability certificate.
The study material consisted of data reported by service providers who have concluded contracts in the field of therapeutic rehabilitation with the Lodz Voivodship Branch of the National Health Fund, providing services within the combined ranges, dedicated to people with a severe degree of disability. Reporting data was prepared by service providers in the period from July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018.
Data analysis indicated that patients’ condition was most often improved in the field of outpatient physiotherapy for people with a severe degree of disability (45.13% of the total number of respondents); 29.63% of patients constituted the group of patients covered by medical outpatient rehabilitation care and 19.12% of patients underwent physiotherapy at home.
The evaluation of the study material indicated that patients most often undergoing rehabilitation were patients in the 51-84 age group (62.23% of all respondents).
The smallest group consisted of patients from the age group up to 16 years of age and the 85-101 age group (3.26% and 6.04% of all respondents, respectively).
The evaluation indicated that the most common main diagnosis reported by service providers was cerebral palsy (8.65% of all respondents) and hemiplegia (7.71% of all respondents).
The study showed that the most frequently reported billing product was individual work with patients, accounting for 17.06% of all procedures performed.

Key words:
therapeutic rehabilitation, significant degree of disability

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Professor Andrzej Zembaty

Sławomir Jandziś, Marek Woszczak, Marek Kiljański, Renata Szczepaniak

S. Jandziś, M. Woszczak, M. Kiljański, R. Szczepaniak – Profesor Andrzej Zembaty. FP 2013; 13(4); 57-59

Abstract

The 50th anniversary of the organized activity of physiotherapists in Poland is an opportunity to present the figure of one of the eminent representatives of our profession, prof. Andrzej Zembaty, PhD. He was born on April 21, 1935 in Jasło to an intelligentsia family. The mother was a teacher, my father graduated from the Jagiellonian University law department and worked as a judge in Jasło and then Sanok. Andrzej Zembaty, after passing the final exams at the high school in Sanok, he began studies at the University of Physical Education in Warsaw, which he graduated in 1958. In 1960, he started working as a physiotherapist at the Metropolitan Rehabilitation Center for Motion Disorders in Konstancin and in 1964 as a teacher of the profession at the Medical Vocational College in Konstancin. In 1972, at the request of prof. Marian Weiss, director of STOCER and curator of the Rehabilitation Department at the University of Physical Education in Warsaw, was employed as a senior assistant at the same facility. He returned to the university, with whom he associated most of his professional life. He held the following function: 1979 – head of the Department of Movement Rehabilitation, 1982 – Rector’s representative for the appointment of the Rehabilitation Department, 1983 – deputy director. Institute of Biological Sciences, 1984 – 1987 – vice-dean for student and organizational affairs at the newly appointed Faculty, 1987 – 1990 – vice-dean for didactics. The last place of professional and didactic activity before retiring in 1999 was the University of Physical Education in Katowice, where the Professor headed the Kinesitherapy Unit.

Key words:
Therapeutic rehabilitation, physiotherapists, rehabilitation history