Department of Rehabilitation

Summary of scientific activities on the RSU Research Portal

Objective and main tasks

• Organisation of high-quality education in the fields of rehabilitation, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, audiology, technical orthopaedics, health care, nutrition, and social work
• Supervision of bachelor’s, master’s, and resident physicians’ scientific research work
• Supervision of doctoral studies and PhD theses
• Contribution to the scientific research activities of the department’s personnel
• Continued professional development of the department’s teaching staff

Main fields of activity

• Audiologopaedics
• Healthcare
• Occupational Therapy
• Physiotherapy
• Rehabilitation
• Technical Orthopaedics

Research areas

• Everyday functioning of elderly people;
• Impact of the environment on person’s functional abilities;
• Quality of life and aspects of functioning in children with disabilities;
• Assistive technologies for rehabilitation;
• Temporary and chronic work disability;
• Rehabilitation of different types of hearing impairment;
• Speech and language development in pre-school children;
• Role of biomechanical bone properties in rehabilitation;
• Rehabilitation of the consequences caused by diseases and injuries of the central nervous system.

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