Updated: 4/23/2025
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL THERAPY AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
FACULTY OF MEDICINE
KHERSON STATE UNIVERSITY
According to the Decision of the Academic Council of the University ( Record No. 11 of 03 July 2008) ‘On opening the departments of the Institute of Natural Sciences’, the Department of Human Health was opened at the Institute of Natural Sciences on 1 September 2008.
On the basis of the Academic Council of the University (Record No. 1 of 28 August 2017) and due to the speciality designation, the Department of Human Health was renamed to the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Health.
On the basis of the Decision of the Academic Council of Kherson State University ( Record No. 11 dated 23 April 2018) and in connection with the licensing of the speciality, the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Health was renamed to the Department of Medicine and Physical Therapy on 25 April 2018.
On the basis of the Decision of the Academic Council of Kherson State University (Record No. 13 dated 27 June 2018), in order to rationalise and improve the organisation of the educational process of the university, the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Human Health and Tourism was renamed to the Faculty of Medicine on 27 June 2018.
Oksana Lavrykova
Head of the Department
candidate of biological sciences, professor of the Department
The Department of Human Health (now the Department of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy) was established on 01 September 2008.
It has been training specialists since 2016 in the speciality 227 Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy. The specialists can work in sports medicine and rehabilitation centres, health resorts, specialised boarding schools for people with special educational needs, specialised educational institutions (sports schools, boarding schools, colleges), hospitals (Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy departments), fitness and SPA centres and more. The graduates of the speciality can hold the following positions: specialist in physical rehabilitation; massage therapist; sports massage therapist; instructor of physical therapy; instructor-methodologist in physical culture and sports in medical and health care institutions, educational and rehabilitation centres, academic and social protection institutions, sports training centres, sports teams
On-the-job training and internship of students take place at the well-equipped bases of the best medical and rehabilitation institutions of the city and region, such as: Kherson Regional Cardiology Dispensary, Kherson City Clinical Hospital named after O. S. Luchanskyi", Kheson City Clinical Hospital named after A. and O. Tropins", "Kherson children's Regional Clinical Hospital", Regional Rehabilitation Hospital of the Kherson Regional Council, Kherson Regional Center for complex rehabilitation of children with disabilities of the Kherson Regional Council, City Center for rehabilitation and rehabilitation treatment of the hospital named after A. and O. Tropins, Kherson City Clinical Hospital named after E. E. Karabelesh, Kherson regional center of public health, etc.
Scientific Exchange and internship: Sumy State University, Higher Educational Institution "Donbas State Pedagogical University", Ivan Bobersky Lviv State University of Physical Culture, V.O. Sukhomlynskyi Mykolaiv National University, Zaporizhzhia National University, Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture and others.
Since 2012, Kherson State University has been providing part-time and full-time education in the speciality of Physical Rehabilitation.
In the 2015-2016 academic year, the Department passed licensing of speciality 227 Physical Rehabilitation (Master degree).
Academics of the Department developed educational programs, which were reviewed and re-approved with each academic year. You can find educational programs for the current academic year on the Department's page by clicking "Educational Programs and their discussion" via link https://www.kspu.edu/About/Faculty/Medicine/Ab/EPP.aspx)
Academics of the Department:
Head of the Department- prof. Oksana Lavrykova, Candidate of Biological Sciences, guarantor of the Educational Program of the first (Bachelor's) degreeof higher education "Physical Therapy, Occupational therapy", specialty 227 Therapy and Rehabilitation);
Svitlana Danylchenko - Associate Professor, Candidate of Medical Sciences;
Tetiana Kozii - Associate Professor, Candidate of Biological Sciences;
Nataliia Vasylieva - Associate Professor, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Deputy Dean for Educational and Methodological Work and Practices; Assistant Dean for Education Quality, the guarantor of the Educational Program of the second (master) level of higher education “Physical Rehabilitation”, speciality 227 Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Kateryna Samoilenko - lecturer;
Artem Fursenko - lecturer;
Liliia Lozynska - Senior Laboratory Assistant (Master of Defectology)
Academics of the Department provide training in the following disciplines:
First (Bachelor's) level of Higher Education:
- Anatomy and Physiology of Ageing;
- Fundamentals of Practical Activity in Rehabilitation (introduction to the specialty);
- Functional Anatomy;
- Academic Integrity;
- Medical Ethics and Deontology;
- Human Physiology;
- Methods of Clinical and Paraclinical Diagnostics;
- Organization of Work of Rehabilitation Institutions;
- Diagnostics and Monitoring of Health Status;
- Massage;
- Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy for diseases of internal organs;
- Physical Rehabilitation for Diseases of the Cardiovascular System;
- Physical Rehabilitation for Surgical DIseases;
- Fundamentals of Medical Knowledge (patient care);
- Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy for Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System;
- Therapeutic Exercises;
- Physical Rehabilitation for Diseases of the Sensory Organs;
- Medical and Social Rehabilitation;
- Theory of Health and a Healthy Lifestyle;
- Medical Valeology;
- Types of Health-improving and Recreational Motor Activity;
- Physical Rehabilitation of Children with Developmental Disabilities;
- Biology with the Basics of Genetics;
- Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy for Diseases of the Nervous System;
- Medical Biology;
- Internal Medicine (specialty);
- Medical Psychology;
- Pathology and Pathophysiology;
- Sports Medicine;
- Sports Physiology;
- Methods of examination, assessment and control in physical rehabilitation;
- Physical Therapy;
- Human Anatomy etc.
Second (Master's) level of Higher Education:
1. Physical Therapy and clinical rehabilitation management for sensory dysfunctions;
2. Physical Therapy and clinical rehabilitation management for cognitive and personality disorders;
3. Physical Therapy and clinical rehabilitation management for endocrine disorders;
4. Physical Therapy and clinical rehabilitation management in oncology;
5. Physical Therapy and clinical rehabilitation management for amputations and prosthetics of limbs;
6. Physical Therapy and clinical rehabilitation management in obstetrics and gynecology, etc.