The Department of Physiotherapy hosted the Paralympic athlete, Janez Učakar, within the elective subject Sports Activities of Disabled People (lecturer Tine Kovačič, M.Sc.), Janez Učakar is a member of the Slovenian Wheelchair Basketball team. He and his wife Alenka shared the experience of living together, inclusion and cooperation in sports activities in sports-motion programs through which people with paraplegia remain physically active.
Our 3rd year students-future physiotherapists were introduced to the current multidimensional issues in sport for people with reduced abilities / disability, the role of physiotherapists during rehabilitation after injury, during preparation for competitions and prevention of sports injuries and rehabilitation of sports injuries themselves.