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Although I am a doctor, I don’t always see the progress

Ireneusz Orman, 53 years old comorbidities: hypothyroidism, chronic kidney disease, status post three episodes of…

Respiratory physiotherapy – it is more than breathing exercises and expectoration

This article was prepared by experts in the field of respiratory physiotherapy – Dr. Agnieszka Lewko and Dr. Anna Pyszora. It discusses the scope of such practices in the context of current scientific evidence and latest clinical recommendations.

One is completely helpless in this chaos

There are three physiotherapists at my house – me, my husband and my son, who…

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One day I am going to jump two steps

Bogdan Kleszcz, 63 years old no comorbidities I was admitted to hospital on the 10th…

Is six weeks enough to change your mind?

Before the pandemic I could not imagine the possibility of conducting telerehabilitation. Now I am…

How to fight with an unknown enemy

In Brzeg we have a department of neurological rehabilitation which can accommodate 25 patients. Around…

Physiotherapy of COVID-19 patients in the ICU

Physiotherapists from the Intensive Care Unit at the University Hospital in Cracow work in a…

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Refraining from rehabilitation is like asking for complications

“Physiotherapy for COVID-19 patients must be introduced from the very beginning. They might recover without…

We are glad to be back at work!

“Sanitary restrictions are the same for all practices and should be adhered to, regardless of…

We couldn’t let the effects of longterm physiotherapy go for nothing

When most physiotherapy practices in Poland were closing in March, I also made the same…