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.

SUCCESSFUL MIRROR THERAPY WORKSHOP FOR 25 AT MUGOMBWA REFUGEE CAMP, RWANDA

On July 13, 2017, twenty-five refugee amputees successfully completed an ETPP
Mirror Therapy Workshop at Mugombwa Camp in Southern Rwanda. They are
Rwandan refugees, forced to flee conflict again twenty years after the civil war,
this time returning across the nearby Congo border. Many of the younger refugees
lost their limbs there.

The workshop was a very moving experience, both for the participants and for
physiotherapist, Jean Luc Ngarambe, the workshop leader and nurses, Gisele
Munyana and Marie Chantal Mukansanga, who assisted.

After the participants moved through the fifteen minutes of reflected exercises on
their own, two amputees voluntarily shared their experiences with the others.   

An older man, who for years had been questioning practitioners at various clinics as to the source of his ongoing pain, finally understood that he was suffering Phantom Limb Pain, which is treatable with inexpensive Mirror Therapy. A young woman who lost her right leg below the knee, felt her phantom leg for the first time while concentrating on the mirror image of the missing limb.

All participants requested a follow-up evaluation meeting with Mr. Ngarambe to occur
after they complete their month-long home treatment routines.