Biography & achievements

Zuzana is a Physiotherapist at Professor Kolar’s Private Rehabilitation Clinic: Centre of Movement Medicine Waltrovka, Prague, Czech Republic. She is a lecturer at Charles University, 2nd School of Medicine, where she teaches physical therapy to undergraduate students of physiotherapy program as well as to medical students.

Zuzana received her Master’s Degree in Physiotherapy in 2003, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. In 2006, she completed a course in Reflex Locomotion according to Vojta, focusing on the treatment of adult patients. From 2003 to 2011, Zuzana worked as a full-time member of rehabilitation staff at the Rehabilitation clinic, University Hospital Motol in Prague.

She has extensive experience in functional assessment and treatment of patients with neurological, musculoskeletal and orthopaedic diagnoses. She is also experienced with paediatric cases. She has worked with both in-patient and out-patient departments at the Motol rehabilitation clinic, as well the Spinal Unit and Pain Management Centre.

Zuzana works closely under the mentorship of Professor Pavel Kolar, and is an expert in the Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) approach. She has been teaching DNS since 2005, and has taught in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and numerous other European countries, as well as Asia and North and South America.

Since 2013, Zuzana has been working at Professor Kolar’s private rehabilitation clinic; “Centre of Movement Medicine”. In her private practice, she focuses on developing better movement strategies and treatment for Equestrians, being competitive rider herself.