The Neuromuscular Workout method being used at the Superhumans Center in Lviv, is benefiting the health and physical functionality of amputee and severly wounded soldiers in Ukraine. Now we need to prove it.

In March 2023, I traveled to Lviv for the first time to visit a construction site that would eventually become an advanced all-in-one center, the Superhumans Center, for amputee soldiers and civilians.

A surgical unit, hospital hotel, prosthetics lab and everything that should be part of a thorough injury process: rehabilitation, rehab, health checks, psychological interviews, socialization, occupational therapy, games, play, sports and advice to return to work, family and community life.

A few months earlier, I had met the center’s charismatic CEO Olga Rudnieva in Copenhagen – a meeting set up by the then Ukrainian ambassadors to Denmark, Mykhailo and Khrystyna Vydoinyk. I had offered my experience to them because of my 4 years of working with Danish soldiers who had suffered amputation wounds during the Afghanistan war.

When war broke out in Ukraine, however, there was no program for the large numbers of wounded soldiers that the country had never seen before. The wounded had to sit at home and wait for prosthetics and rehabilitation.

However, Khrystyna Vydoinyk had become involved in a Danish branch of the charity “Women for Ukraine” – founded by Ukraine’s first lady Yelena Zelenskaya – and one of the areas of focus would be these badly wounded soldiers. Olga Rudnieva was in Copenhagen to raise money for the project. I had an hour with Olga, and I only had a few questions for her. The answer to that would determine whether I had something to contribute to her Superhumans project or not.

The question was about what efforts they made in relation to core training – specifically lumbar and pelvic training with a focus on breathing, and whether they had efforts in relation to what I call “training for self-training”?

This was an area that Olga and her medical team knew was important, but they hadn’t focused on it yet, so I knew I was able to contribute.

Now, after five trips to the Superhumans Center in Lviv, a team of skilled physiotherapists have integrated the Neuromuscular Workout exercises and methodology to teach the soldiers to self-train, and it is working. They are getting stronger, gaining more control over their movements and are better able to recover and maintain themselves.

Now we plan on doing more research on exactly what works, why, and how we can spread that knowledge and methodology to more professionals and patients.

You can read more about Superhumans Center here https://superhumans.com/en/

And more about Women For Ukraine here https://www.womenforukraine.dk