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fig. 8 Team of the Department. History: 1970 – is grounded the Paediatric Orthopaedic Department
(first in Poland) as a part of Paediatric Institute of Medical Academy (later Medical University) (13.
06. 2001 – change of the name of Department – from Paediatric Orthopaedic Department into
Paediatric Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Department of Medical University in Lublin) 17. 01. 2005 –
the Department is divided into two Departments: (1) Paediatric Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation
Department (25 beds) and (2) Paediatric Orthopaedic Department (20 beds). Picture made in 2003.
The Paediatric Orthopaedic and
Rehabilitation Department also has its own
Rehabilitation Wards in Krasnobród (near
to Zamość, from 1977 – till now) and in
Rymanów Zdrój (Podkarpacie Province,
from 1995 – till now). The leader doctors
of both Wards are assistants of our
Department.
The research aim
The research aims of all Lublin
Orthopaedic, Traumatology and
Rehabilitations Departments of Medical
University refer to the problems of hips,
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congenital dislocation in children and
arthrosis in adults, fractures and pseudoarthrosis
(specially in years 1954–1964) as
a result of improper treatment, poliomyelitis
(till 1964), scoliosis, club feet, problems
of hand, traumatology and others.
The Paediatric Orthopaedic and
Rehabilitation Department, since 1970 till
now, has developed a new treatment of
many disorders, abnormalities and illnesses
of children movement apparatus.
Torticollis muscularis (wry neck) –
we developed a very effective stretching
therapy for contracted (shortened) musculus
sterno – cleino – mastoideus in 1974
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