Specialist Hospital of Complex Rehabilition and Child Orthopedy "Górka"
im. dr Szymona Starkiewicza
28-100 Busko-Zdrój, ul. dr Szymona Starkiewicza 1

Tel. reception : 0 41 378 30 31, chambers: 0 41 378 40 18,
fax: 0 41 378 14 47,
e-mail: info@gorka.med.pl     www.szpitalgorka.pl

        Tradition of treating disabled children since 1926.


The building is situated on a picturesque hill in the resort area, fully adjusted to the needs of children and teenagers. There are playing fields, a fireplace, a playground, a small lake and avenues for walking in the forest and wonderful sledge chutes for children in winter.
The hospital has been recently renovated, has 4 modern bed wards, operating theatre, specialist out-patient clinics and rehabilitation base equipped with the newest accessories, rehabilitation pool and balneological therapies. Qualified medical and pedagogical staff   has experience with disabled children and teenagers.

The scope of stationary and ambulatory benefits:

1. Complex rehabilitation therapy of  celebral palsy and other movement organs disorder is conducted individually choosing the best treatment and it comprises:
– kinesytherapy (individual and group exercises in a gym and rehabilitation pool, learning to walk devices supported)
– massages (classic, mechanical, underwater, rotation),
– balneotherapy (sulphur water baths, moor mud wrappings),
– thermotherapy (gel compress),
– localized criotherapy,
– phototherapy (sollux, solarium, laser)
–electrotherapy (magnetronic and currents: galvanic, impulsive, neofaradic, diadynamic, interferential, waving, Kotz, Tens, Trabert, accordign to Nemec)
–group therapy  with various forms of improvement.

In case of joint contracture and other deformations making rehabilitation impossible, we apply:
-     farmacological eliminating spasticism (injection of botulinum toxic)
-     operational tendon lengthening.

2. Full range of orthopaedic chirurgy: spinal curvature, inborn hip joint dislocation, inborn feet deformation, bone inflammation, badly healed wounds, limb axis correction, bone lenghtening and shortening, eliminating spasticism, muscle lenghtening, shortening and transplantation. We apply our own operation technics reducing surgical immobilisation.

3. Orthopaedic preservative treatment.

4. Orthopaedic and rehabilitational consultation, diagnosis, minor orthopaedic and ambulatory rehabilitational surgeries.

Diagnostic is made using modern equipment: X-Rays, ultrasonography, spirometer, blood and urine analyser.

Co-operation with the family: there are trainings for parents preparing them for continuing rehabilitation at home. The hospital offers lodgings for parents and family.

Education - – we have a well-equipped primary, grammar, secondary school as well as a kindergarden. Qualified pedagogical staff is specialised in therapeutic pedagogy and is fully prepared to work with ill children; we have a psychologist and logopeda.

We offer form tutor care – help with doing homework, recreational facilities, playing and games in hospital, participation in cultural events, the Internet access.

There is a hippotherapy centre near the hospital.