Václav Vojta

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Václav Vojta (born July 12, 1917 in Mokrosuky / Bohemia , today the Czech Republic , † September 12, 2000 in Munich ) was a Czech child neurologist and neurologist . The Vojta principle, which includes Vojta diagnostics and Vojta therapy , is named after him .

Life

Vojta studied medicine at Charles University in Prague , where he also completed his specialist training in neurology and pediatric neurology. Then he headed the child neurological department. As a result of the political situation with the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, Václav Vojta and his family sought refuge in Germany .

In the autumn of 1968 he started working as a research assistant at the Orthopedic University Clinic in Cologne , where he had the opportunity to continue his developmental kinesiology studies and examinations and to conduct diagnostic courses for doctors and therapy courses for physiotherapists . From 1975 Václav Vojta worked at the Children's Center in Munich , where he headed the rehabilitation department and became the deputy of Theodor Hellbrügge .

After the end of communism in Czechoslovakia , Vojta qualified as professor of child neurology and rehabilitation at Charles University in Prague. 25 years earlier he had not been admitted to the habilitation for political reasons. Even after his retirement in 1995, Vojta worked as a scientist, doctor and teacher until shortly before his death.

Services

Vojta has further developed pediatric diagnostics. The Vojta diagnosis consists of the assessment of spontaneous motor skills , postural reactions and reflexology . It is used for the early detection of motor development disorders in infants and young children and is used worldwide today.

Vojta developed the Vojta therapy named after him , which is also widespread internationally. Since 1967 Vojta has held diagnostic courses for doctors and trained physiotherapists for Vojta therapy for infants, toddlers, adolescents and adults with movement disorders. He gave his lectures and training courses not only in Germany and the Czech Republic , but also in Argentina , Chile , Italy , Japan , Korea , Mexico , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Poland and Spain .

In 1984 Vojta founded the Václav Vojta Society eV (VVG) based in Munich, which was renamed the International Vojta Society eV (IVG) in 1994 , in which teachers from physiotherapy and medicine have come together to work on the Vojta principle in diagnostics and therapy to encourage children and adults.

Publications (selection)

Vojta has published over 100 scientific papers and written technical and textbooks .

  • Václav Vojta: The cerebral movement disorders in infancy - early diagnosis and early therapy, 8th edition, Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-13-140768-9 .
  • Václav Vojta / Annegret Peters: The Vojta principle, 3rd edition, Springer Heidelberg 2007

It was only after his death in 2009 that the specialist book on motor development, which he wrote together with Edith Schweizer, was published:

  • Václav Vojta / Edith Schweizer: The discovery of the ideal motor skills, Pflaum-Verlag

Honourings and prices

  • Heine Prize, the highest award of the German Society for Orthopedics (1974)
  • Medal "Growing Together" from the Sunshine Campaign (1979)
  • Ernst von Bergmann plaque for advanced medical training from the German Medical Association (1983)
  • Pfaundler medal for advanced training in pediatric medicine from the professional association of paediatricians (1990)
  • Appointment as honorary professor by the Collegium Catholicum Medicinae in Seoul , Korea (1994)
  • Renewed habilitation and appointment as associate professor of neurology and child neurology at Charles University, Prague (1996)
  • Theodor Hellbrügge Award of the Sunshine Campaign (1999)
  • Czech Merit Medal (posthumously October 2000)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The company's online information page at: www.vojta.com , accessed on February 18, 2011
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Heine Prize Winner. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgooc.de
  3. ^ [1] Presentation of the Theodor Hellbrügge Award.

literature

  • Václav Vojta: Cerebral movement disorders in infancy - early diagnosis and early therapy. 7th edition, Georg Thieme-Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-13-140767-0
  • Václav Vojta, Annegret Peters: The Vojta principle. 3rd edition, Springer, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-46509-6

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personal data
SURNAME Vojta, Václav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech child neurologist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Mokrosuky , Bohemia , now the Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2000
Place of death Munich