Bridging Healing and Hope: Ukrainian Rehabilitation Project Integrates Technology and Lessons from Hiroshima’s History
On April 2nd, Dr. KOLOSHYNSKA visited a rehabilitation clinic in central Hiroshima for her first training session. The clinic has used RE-Gait for patients with walking disabilities due to injuries. A clinic staff explained the device’s basic functions and put it on her leg so that she could experience how the device works on the patients. The doctor tried different modes that the device offers and walked in the same way as rehabilitation patients do at the clinic. She tried each mode on her to see how it could improve the patients’ walking conditions. She also put RE-Gait on a PBV staff to grasp how to use it effectively with the controlling tablet.
During the training, she also asked practical questions to the physical therapist at the clinic so that she could use RE-Gait confidently when she returned to Ukraine. She mastered how to use the device in the short session, and the clinic staff assured her that she could use it effectively.
After the training, the doctor and the project members visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Memorial Park to learn about the impact of the atomic bomb and the struggles of the survivors as well as the efforts for peacebuilding. The Japanese media also interviewed the doctor after the visit.
On the previous day, she also had an opportunity to meet an A-bomb survivor or Hibakusha in person and learn the personal story of hers and her family and their work to convey the message for peace to the world.
The first day of the training was concluded successfully with the cooperation of the clinic and the developer team.