All posts by Snjezana Schuster

Snježana Schuster is a physiotherapist and archaeologist. She obtained her PhD in the field of bioarchaeology, where she conducted interdisciplinary research encompassing social-humanistic, natural and biomedical sciences on historical populations. Her work involved comparing these populations with contemporary ones in the context of pathological changes in the human spine. With years of experience, she worked as a physiotherapist in the Clinical Hospital in Zagreb, Croatia, specializing in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, women's health, and sports physiotherapy. She initiated the first column, "Historical Corner for Physiotherapists," in the Croatian journal Fizioterapija. Currently, she serves as an associate professor at the Department of Physiotherapy (University of Applied Health Sciences) and Faculty of Kinesiology, at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Depiction of a goniometer once used in physiotherapy procedures at the Clinical Department for Rehabilitation and Orthopedic Aids, Božidarevićeva 11, Zagreb, Croatia; source: personal archive of S. Schuster.

Goniometer: An Instrumental Revolution in the Transition from Profession to Physiotherapy Science

The goniometer, as a fundamental measurement tools in physiotherapy, has played a pivotal role in transforming the field from a manual profession into a scientifically grounded discipline. Its application has enabled the objectification of therapeutic procedures through quantitative assessment of the range of motion, thereby opening the door to systematic

Cover of the first Physiotherapy professional journal in Croatia, published in 1997.

History of Physiotherapy in Croatia

The Balkan region, where Yugoslavia partly extended (Socialist Federal Republic from 1942 to 1992), comprised the republics at that time, which are now independent states: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo. In this territory, the Association of Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists of Yugoslavia was established on

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