Project Aims

To provide knowledge for therapists in Ukraine with an emphasis on practical skills
To improve the quality of outcome for Ukrainian citizens who suffer hand trauma
To provide Ukrainian hand surgeons the opportunity to explore this specialty
To ensure accessibility by translating the PowerPoint presentations into Ukrainian
To support the development of a hand therapy organisation in Ukraine in the future
To measure success by evaluating each webinar, by monitoring attendance numbers and intermittent feedback of effectiveness

Why it is important

Over the months since February 2022, Ukrainian citizens and military personnel have suffered many thousands of hand injuries. In the absence of specialist therapists, HIHWU aims to provide educational support for therapists and doctors on the ground. Forty webinars were held between August 2022 and August 2023. Most of these can now be found on the website alongside the presentations themselves in English and Ukrainian.

A live course was also run in Kyiv in May 2024 and repeated in February 2025. All the lectures from this course were recorded and simultaneously translated into Ukrainian. All these lectures are available on this website to be viewed. They are uploaded in both English and Ukrainian. All the slides are in Ukrainian.