We are physiotherapists, all direct pupils of Professor Karel Lewit, neurologist and rehabilitation specialist, with whom we have been collaborating for years. Each of us has her own practice, or teaches and has a group in a health center. We teach, organise talks, seminars, are active in various groups related to physiotherapy or psychosomatics. This work is our professional link, we have known each other for years. Nevertheless, we all met for the first time in the Lewit home in Dob\u0159ichovice<\/span> in order to preserve his professional heritage,when he passed away on October 2014. It was donated to us by Lewit’s daughters, Anita, Jana and Clara-Helena in the hope that we would continue his work. During our subsequent meetings it became clear that we could not manage without a legal framework and financial backing. Thus in February 2016, the Karel Lewit Foundation Fund was created. As well as enjoying our everyday work, we found the additional joy of creating and presenting a field of medicine co-founded, studied and developed by Karel Lewit in his Prague School. Our initial enthusiasm was channeled first into the administration related to the creation and running of the foundation fund. We can now concentrate on the best way of developing physiotherapy based on functional thinking. Our aim is to generalise the examination and therapy of patients in a way that not only treats the consequences, but also seeks to understand the reasons for their problems ; this is not restricted only to their locomotor system. We call this a functional approach. We hope to convince professionals in physiotherapy, as well as in medicine in general, to adopt the functional approach. And we hope to improve communication between different specialities in medicine and to understand human beings as complex entities where body and soul are an indivisible whole, just like two sides af the same coin. Last, but not least, we need to inform the public about the importance of a functional approach ; for instance, by proposing an overview of non-invasive therapies of the locomotor system or by informing them about pain prevention.<\/p>\n You can read our Annual Reports here:<\/p>\n v\u00fdro\u010dn\u00ed zpr\u00e1va_2019<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our aim is to promote a functional approach to thinking in medicine. For us, this type of thinking opens a number of possibilities that will allow patients, healthy people and medical staff to reinforce health. It helps us reveal functional relationships between different structures of the body. The body is a bit like a car. What is the point of polishing it if it does not work? Each of us has a unique body, family, work, friends, interests …. life. If something goes wrong, we expect medical personnel to repair it or help us repair it. Within the Karel Lewit Foundation Fund we insist on a functional approach, where the repair is tailored to each unique life. Our starting points are the discoveries of Professor Lewit who devoted his professional life to patients, students and research in the fields fo rehabilitation and neurology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Foundation Fund We are physiotherapists, all direct pupils of Professor Karel Lewit, neurologist and rehabilitation specialist, with whom we have been collaborating for years. Each of us has her own practice, or teaches and has a group in a health center. We teach, organise talks, seminars, are active in various groups related to physiotherapy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-about.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nv\u00fdro\u010dn\u00ed zpr\u00e1va_2016_2018<\/a><\/p>\nThe functional approach<\/span><\/h3>\n