Prof. Józef A. Opara, MD, PhD
j.opara@awf.katowice.pl
C u r i c u l u m V i t a e
1960-1967 medical study at Silesian University of Medicine in Katowice.
Graduated in 1967.
Specialties: neurology 1977
medical rehabilitation 1982
Doctorship: 1983 (MD)
Aggregation (polish habilitation, more than PhD): 1997
Professor in Academy of Physical Education in Katowice: since 1998
Chair of Physiotherapy in Neurology
Full Professor in Physical Culture: 2008
Scholarship: Austria – invited by AUVA - Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt - 1986
Member of European Panels in EFNS: Neurorehabilitation, Neurotraumatology, Post-Polio,
Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the III Congress of Polish Society of Rehabilitation
in Cieszyn – Ustron 1998
Leader of European Panel of Neurorehabilitation in EFNS: 1998-2000
Certificate: tutor in Evidence Based Medicine 2001
Member of Editorial Board in Polish Journal of Physiotherapy since 2001
Co-originator and member of council of WFNR: since 2002
Originator and president of Polish Society for Neurological Rehabilitation since 2003
Regional vice-President of World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation for Central and
Eastern Europe since 2009
Member of board of European Federation of NeuroRehabilitation Societies since 2015
Scientific grants: FP7 Homecare 222954, WP2 Polish: Facilities of early rehabilitation after
stroke in Poland: 2010-2012.
Special scientific interrest:
stroke rehabilitation
spasticity
rehabilitation in paraplegia (SCI), Spondylotic Cervical Myelopathy (SCM), Post-Polio
clinimetrics
Quality of Life measures
rehabilitation after TBI
rehabilitation in PD
rehabilitation in MS
Promoter of 11 doctorships
Reviewer of many scientific journals, i.e. European Journal of Neurology (IF = 2,66)
Quality of Life Research (IF = 2.985), Int. J. Rehabil. Res. (IF= 1.083), Journal of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Science, Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska (IF=
0.641)
Main recent reports:
1. Opara J.A
., Socha T., Bidzan M., Mehlich K., Poświata A. Stress urine incontinence
especially in elite women athletes extremely practicing sports. Arch Budo 2011; 7(4):
OF227-231. Impact Factor=0,488
2. Opara J.A. Activities of Daily Living and Quality of Life in Alzheimer Disease.
J. Med & Life 2012; 5(2): 162-167.
3. Opara J.A., Langhorne P., Larsen T., Mehlich K., Szczygiel J. Facilities of early
rehabilitation after stroke in Poland 2010. Int J Rehabil Res. 2012; 35(4): 367-371.
Impact Factor=1.083
4. Opara J
, Brola W, Leonardi M, Błaszczyk B. Quality of life in Parkinson`s Disease. J
Med Life. 2012 Dec 15;5(4):375-81.
5. Opara J.,
Kucio C., Socha T., Szczygieł J. Role of physical activity in preventing
disability in Multiple Sclerosis. Medical Rehabilitation 2012; 16(3): 22-26.
6. Opara J, Jaracz K, Brola W. Burden and quality of life in caregivers of persons with
multiple sclerosis. Neurol Neurochir Pol. 2012; 46(5): 472-9. IF=0,488
7. Radajewska A., Opara J
., Kucio C., Mehlich K., Błaszczyszyn M., Szczygieł J.
The effects of mirror therapy on arm and hand function in acute stroke inpatients.
Int. J. Rehabil. Res. 2013; 36(3): 268-274. Impact Factor=1.083
8. Opara J.A
. Małecka E., Szczygieł J. Clinimetric measurement in traumatic brain
Injuries. J. Med & Life 2014; 7(2): 124-127.
9.
Poświata A, Socha T, Opara J. Prevalence of stress urinary incontinence in elite female
endurance athletes. J Hum Kinet. 2014 Dec 30;44:91-6.
Impact Factor: 1.029
10. Brola W, Mitosek-Szewczyk K, Opara J. Symptomatology and pathogenesis of different
types of pain in multiple sclerosis. Neurol Neurochir Pol. 2014;48(4):272-9. IF=0,488 11.
11. Opara
J., Kucio C., Kurek J., Małecka E. Is the Barthel scale still useful 50 years after its
first publication? Medical Rehabilitation 2015; 19(1): 34-38. ISSN 1427–9622.
12. Opara
, J.A. Brola W., Szczygieł J. Palliative care in Polish patients with Multiple
Sclerosis. J. Paliative Care Med. 2016; 6:1–4.
13. W. Brola, P Sobolewski, W Szczuchniak, A Góral, M Fudala, W Przybylski, J. Opara.
Association of seasonal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels with disability and relapses in
relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. J Europ J Clinical Nutrition 2016, 1–5. IF=2.709
14. Opara
JA, Brola W, Wylęgała AA, Wylęgała E. Uhthoff’s phenomenon 125 years later –
what do we know today? J. Med & Life 2016; January-March ; Vol IX, Iss 1.
15. Opara J., Grzybowska-Ganszczyk D. Questionnaires measuring leisure-time physical
activity in Parkinson`s disease. Current research in motor control V. Bridging motor
control and biomechanics. Katowice 2016, p. 198-205.
16.
Józef Opara, Justyna Mazurek, Jarosław Szczygieł, Grzegorz Gałuszka, Wiesław
Rycerski. Zastosowanie technolog
ii wirtualnej rzeczywistości w usprawnianiu kończyny
górnej po udarze mózgu. Rozdział w monografii recenzowanej pod red. Teresy Pop:
Rehabilitacja 2016. Wyd. Bonus Liber Sp. z o.o. Rzeszów 2016; s. 164-173.
17.
Monika Błaszczyszyn, Tomasz Fiałkowski, Elżbieta Małecka, Józef Opara. Czynniki
wpływające na wyniki rehabilitacji po udarze mózgu. Rozdział w monografii
recenzowanej pod red. Teresy Pop: Rehabilitacja 2016. Wyd. Bonus Liber Sp. z o.o.
Rzeszów 2016; s. 26-35.