Václav Vojta

Václav Vojta ( born July 12, 1917 in Mokrosuky / Bohemia, now the Czech Republic, † 12 September 2000 in Munich) was a Czech child neurologist and a neurologist. According to him, the Vojta principle is named to the Vojta diagnosis and Vojta therapy include.

Life

Vojta studied medicine at Charles University in Prague and completed his residency training in neurology and child € Logie. He then led the children euros Logical department. Due to the political situation, with the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in 1968 sought Václav Vojta refuge with his family in Germany.

In the fall of 1968 he began at the Orthopaedic University Clinic in Cologne as a research assistant and there had the opportunity to continue his studies and research entwicklungskinesiologischen and perform diagnostic courses for doctors and therapy courses for physical therapists. From 1975 Václav Vojta was the Children's Center Munich offices, where he headed the rehabilitation department and was deputy of Theodor Hellbrügge.

After the end of communism in Czechoslovakia to Vojta habilitated professor of children euros Logie and Rehabilitation at the Charles University in Prague. 25 years earlier, he had not been approved for political reasons to habilitation. Even after his retirement in 1995 Vojta worked as a scientist, doctor and teacher until shortly before his death.

Services

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

Vojta developed named after him Vojta therapy, which is also distributed internationally. Since 1967, Vojta held diagnostic courses for doctors and trained physiotherapists for the Vojta therapy in motion impaired infants, young children, adolescents and adults. His lectures and continuing education he held not only in Germany and the Czech Republic, but also in Argentina, Chile, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland and Spain.

In 1984, Vojta the Václav Vojta Society ( SG ), headquartered in Munich, in International Vojta Society ( LAI) was renamed in 1994 in which teachers have come together from physiotherapy and medicine to the Vojta principle in the diagnosis and treatment 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 treatment, 8th edition, Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-13-140768-9.
• Václav Vojta / Annegret Peters: The Vojta principle, 3rd edition, Springer Heidelberg 2007

Only after his death was published in 2009 together with the resulting Edith Swiss reference book on motor development:

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

Awards and prizes

• Heine Prize, the highest award of the German Society for Orthopaedics (1974 )
• Medal "togetherness grow " the action of sunshine (1979 )
• Ernst von Bergmann plaque for medical education of the German Medical Association (1983 )
• Pfaundler Medal for pediatric training from the Professional Association of Pediatrics ( 1990)
• Appointed Honorary Professor by the Collegium Catholicum Medicinae in Seoul, Korea ( 1994)
• Re- habilitation and appointment as associate professor of neurology and child € Logie Charles University, Prague ( 1996)
• Theodor Hellbrügge Award of action Sonnenschein ( 1999)
• Czech Medal of Merit (posthumous October 2000)