SUMMARY The amount of disabled people of working age is icreasing in Lithuania. In the second place in the structure of primary disablement are connective tissue and muscle-skeleton diseases. In 2002 for the first time recognized as invalids were 2898 persons, in 2003 – 3448 persons. Part of inhabitants are becoming invalids because of the joint diseases. The most effective and modern treatment of hip arthrosis and some other hip joint diseases is total hip arthroplasty. In 2003 the State Patient’s Cash has received 4704 requests for total hip arthroplasty. This problem becoms more and more urgent (State Patient’s Cashies, 2004). Kinesitherapy in the gym and in the swimming pool are the main means used in the restoring of functional abilities of the patients after total hip arthroplasty. One can find the data about the efficiency of kinesitherapy for the patients after total hip replacement, but there is no separate data about efficiency of the kinesitherapy in the swimming pool. The aim of the research: to evaluate the efficiency of the kinesitherapy in the swimming pool for the patients after total hip replacement. The tasks: 1. To evaluate the change of functional abilities of the patients, who received the kinesitherapy in the gym. 2. To evaluate the change of functional abilities of the patients, who received the kinesitherapy in the gym and in the swimming pool. 3. To compare the change of functional abilities between the patients of both groups. 4. To establish the... [to full text]