Updated: 4/15/2020
Specialist prepared for the specialty 227 Physical Therapy, ergotherapy (Physical Rehabilitation), performs the professional work of a specialist of health and rehabilitation institutions, may occupy the primary positions of a specialist in physical rehabilitation. It is suitable for performing production functions in the field of physical education, sports, human health: conducting a survey to determine the functional status of the level of physical development; detection of violations and preparation of rehabilitation programs; development and implementation of a set of exercises aimed at improving the activity of the body as a whole; determining the purpose, content and order of educational and rehabilitation work in mass and specialized institutions for children with disabilities; analyzing the peculiarities of physical and mental achievements of children; cooperation with specialists who develop individual methods of correction and rehabilitation work: doctors, psychologists, physiologists, defectologists, nutritionists; ensuring, together with other professionals, healthy and safe learning and working conditions; preparation and monitoring of the general condition of disabled people of Paralympic sports; fulfillment of a professional task and duties with observance of norms of ethics and morals. The work of a specialist is aimed at restoring health, eliminating pathological processes, rehabilitation or partial compensation of impaired functions, combating disability, preparing the recovering and disabled for domestic and workloads. The tool of the work of a rehabilitologist is the possession of a complex of professional knowledge and skills necessary for the general rehabilitation of patients and persons with disabilities of different profiles: therapeutic, cardiac, surgical, neurological, urological, orthopedic (diseases of the joints, spine), etc. The technology of work of a specialist in physical rehabilitation is conditioned by the use of different methods, techniques and means with the use of therapeutic physical training, therapeutic massage, physiotherapy, mechanotherapy.