MIRROR THERAPY WORKSHOP HELD AT DR. MIROSLAV ZOTOVIC REHABILITATION CLINIC, BELGRADE, SERBIA 3/03/2018

Physiotherapists certified for Mirror Therapy at Dr. Miroslav Zotović Rehabilitation Clinic

Mirror Therapy Adria instructor, Jasmin Avdović, in conjunction with head therapist Anđelka Pjanović and colleagues, Smiljka Pavlović and Milan Kecman of the Physiotherapy Department of Dr. Miroslav Zotović Rehabilitation Clinic, organized a successful, full day MT Workshop at the clinic in Belgrade-Republic of Serbia, on March 03, 2018.

 

Instructor Jasmin Avdović Guiding MT Workshop Participant

As always, the main educational target was phantom limb pain and phantom limb sensation and how the method of Mirror Therapy based on ETPP guidelines, deals with those problems. Spasticity affecting limb function and CRPS in persons suffering from hemiparesis, as n.fecialis paralysis, were also shown be helped with Mirror Therapy to achieve rehabilitation goals.

The outcome was that twenty-five Serbian physiotherapists were certified as Mirror Therapists, Seventeen attendants were from within the clinic, and the remainder from northern and central Serbia. Three of these physiotherapists were from the near-by Prosthetic Clinic.

Workshop Participants Involved in MT Procedures

Congratulations are in order for the following new mirror therapists: 

1. Milan Kecman 2. Smiljka Pavlović 3. Nina Lačanski 4. Jelena Mucić 5. Branko Lazić 6. Vladimir Klačar 7. Dragomir Trninić 8. Ivana Trbojević 9. Branka Vučković 10. Milena Stojković 11. Jelena Jovanović 12. Zoran Gligorić 13. Slavica Gligorić 14. Nevena Vuković 15. Vesna Krstić 16. Branka Iljoska 17. Marjan Drobnjaković 18. Nina Karanov 19. Anđelka Pjanović 20. Sanja Spasić 21. Jovana Filipović 22. Vesna Kuljić 23. Nataša Cvetković 24. Nataša Stevović 25. Mirjana Vitaz

Since 2016, the time of the last Mirror Therapy Workshop held in Serbia, the number of certified Mirror Therapy practitioners in the country has jumped from six to thirty-one. This rise might be partially credited to the costs of the education unexpectedly becoming available as government scholarships.

Mirror-Adria a registered Bosnian organization to offer Mirror Therapy Training Workshops

 Mirror-Adria, a rehabilitation training group  has been registered by physiotherapist Jasmin Adovic to address the problem of phantom limb pain for Bosnian amputees. Sarajevo alone, has over 50,000 people with permanent disabilities as a direct consequence of injuries from 1992-1995. This data does not include the numbers of wounded soldiers, including amputees who suffer with phantom limb pain.

Mirror-Adria, endorsed by End The Pain Project (ETPP), will bring Mirror Therapy training workshops to rehabilitation therapists in the Adria region as follows:

Bosnia - end of 2014
Montenegro - April 18, 2015
Serbia-May - June 2015
Macedonia - some time at the end of 2015

Graduates of the Mirror-Adria Training Workshops will receive Certificates of Completion issued by ETPP which will allow them to both administer mirror therapy and to train other professional therapists, amputees and family members or friends of amputees who suffer phantom limb pain. 

Jasmin Adovic, founder of Mirror Therapy Adria at far left with graduates of the September 2013 ETPP Mirror Therapy Training Workshop

Adovic recently created a FaceBook group, Mirror Therapy Adria. It has attracted over 500 members and more are coming, all with days of its inception!