Ilze Zosule was given the great honour to present one of the awards " FUNCTIONAL SPECIALIST OF THE YEAR" to Kristīne Krastiņa, a physiotherapist at Vidzemes Hospital Valka branch!
Kristīne has mastered manual therapy in orthopaedics for the lower back and Schroth therapy for scoliosis patients, she uses various methods - classical body massage, therapeutic gymnastics, therapeutic taping, soft tissue mobilisation techniques and manual therapy.
Kristīne is also involved in EU and local projects, leading group classes for seniors, individual and group classes for clients in a nursing home, and individual therapeutic exercise for patients with mental and physical disabilities.
""Life is in the movement!"", the physiotherapy profession also plays a very important role in hospice care, which we use in the interdisciplinary care of Hospiss Māja patients.
Physiotherapy directly contributes to the mission of hospice care - " not by adding days to life, but by adding life to days" (Dame Cicely Saunders, initiator of the hospice movement) Photo from the event: Toms Norde