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Dr. Nino Zahirović

Physical and rehabilitation medicine specialist

He was born in 1992 in Rijeka.

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka, and in the same city he specialized in physical and rehabilitation medicine at the University Hospital Center. During his specialization, as well as after it, he showed a special interest in the complex problems of chronic pain, its specific diagnostics and the possibility of its control and treatment with minimally invasive methods. Thus, today, in addition to the domain of a narrow physiatrist set of knowledge and skills, he has extensive experience in the differential diagnosis of painful conditions as underlying diseases or accompanying symptoms in other chronic diseases. To this end, he has been thoroughly educated in the application of ultrasound diagnostics and ultrasound-guided interventions, as the most precise method of delivering medicine exactly to the place where it is needed most. This achieves the most favorable effect for the patient with the least side effects.
In addition to treating patients, he is also active in the scientific environment as an author or co-author of scientific publications and as an educator.

At the Scipion Polyclinic, he runs a physiatrist clinic, a clinic for the treatment of chronic pain and osteoporosis, and a rheumatology consultation center. Together with a team of physiotherapists and kinesiologists, with a holistic approach and combining knowledge and experience in a consultative environment, he finds ways to apply the latest scientific knowledge, clinical experience and skills in order to individualize the therapeutic approach with the aim of creating the best therapeutic effect, while minimizing the duration of the treatment itself.

Some of his most important formal educations include:

ALS course 05/2018.
ITLS course 01/2019
WINFOCUS ultrasound course 02/2019.
Cancer pain treatment course 10./2020.
“Virtual pain education summit by European pain federation” Certificate of attendance 11.2020.
C19_SPACE Certificate of attendance 2021.
European School Marseille 2021. Motor disabilities: posture and movement analysis, rehabilitation,
neurophysiology
WCO-IOF-ESCEO 2022. Certificate of attendance
Pharmacology in Pain management course 06/2021
Ultrasound guided minimally invasive procedures in pain management 04/2022
Ultrasound guided minimally invasive procedures in pain management 03/2023
BPTS RIGO concept course 05/2023
Pain management of neuropathic pain 06/2023
Pain management of acute pain 03/2024
EULAR ultrasound BASIC course 04/2024
EULAR ultrasound INTERMEDIATE course 01/2025
Complex Decongestive Therapy course 02/2025
Diagnostic ultrasound and minimally-invasive techniques in the treatment of musculoskeletal system

Filip Mandžukić

Fitness trainer, fitness trainer, kinesiotherapist

Formal education: Fitness training of KIF athletes

He will start working at the Scipion polyclinic in 2022 as an assistant fitness trainer. Following his interests and following intensive theoretical and practical education at our institution, he further specializes in the physical preparation of athletes and kinesiotherapy of sports injuries, with an emphasis on overexertion syndromes. Due to his specific talents and special sensibility, we continue to educate him towards the rehabilitation of patients with complex diseases, which affect multiple organ systems, and whose treatment cannot follow the usual protocols, but must necessarily be maximally individualized, both in diagnostic and therapeutic aspects.

Alan Vranić bacc. Physioth.

Physiotherapist, manual therapist, kinesitherapist

Formal education: Secondary medical school for physiotherapist technician
Physiotherapy studies at the Faculty of Health Studies in Rijeka

Additional education: Mulligan concept of manual therapy

Previous experience:
He is a volunteer at 2 Rijeka Runs (Homo si teć), a physiotherapist and at the national triathlon championship in Vrsar. From manual technique, he passed the Mulligan manual technique in Zagreb in September 2023.

Employed at Scipion Polyclinic since 2022. Then the main focus of his interests becomes manual therapy, in addition to which he undergoes intensive theoretical and especially practical education in our institution with an emphasis on the higher school of manual therapy, all through the lens of our original Tension Model of the locomotor system. His specific skills enable us to provide exceptionally individualized physiotherapy for chronic degenerative diseases as well as overexertion syndromes.

Dr. Sc. Mislav Čimić

Mislav Čimić was born on August 8, 1977 in Zagreb. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zagreb in 2001 and obtained the title of Doctor of Medicine. In 2002, he enrolled in postgraduate scientific studies at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics of the University of Zagreb. In 2004, he began his specialization in orthopedics at the Dubrava Clinical Hospital, and in 2007 he completed a specialist post-graduate course in orthopedics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zagreb.

Having defended his master’s thesis “Anatomical fluctuations and radiological indicators in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis”, in 2008 he obtained the academic degree of Master of Science. In February 2009, he passed the specialist exam in orthopedics and obtained the title of orthopedic specialist. Since 2010, he has been a lecturer and mentor to students at the University of Health in Zagreb. Since 2011, he has been employed at the Orthopedic Clinic of KBC Zagreb and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zagreb, and in the same year he enrolled in scientific postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zagreb. Since 2016, he has been employed as an assistant, and since 2022, as a senior postdoctoral assistant at the Department of Orthopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb. In 2020, he was awarded two subspecialties, one in pediatric orthopedics and the other in traumatology of the locomotor system. In 2022, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zagreb, having defended his doctoral dissertation “The influence of biological and biomechanical factors on the wear of polyethylene in Intraplant HI total hip endoprosthesis”, he completes the post-graduate scientific study of Biomedicine and Health, field of Clinical Medical Sciences, branch of Orthopedics, and obtains an academic the degree of Doctor of Science.

The dominant field of professional and scientific interest of Dr. Čimić is the conservative and operative treatment of spinal deformities, an area in which he continuously improved his skills in the country and abroad. So far, as part of his professional development, he has completed numerous courses, and as a lecturer and invited lecturer he has participated in numerous courses, symposia, national and international congresses. He has been the president of the Croatian Association of Health Professionals in Basketball for many years, and is a permanent court expert in the field of orthopedics and traumatology. He is a member of the Croatian Medical Chamber, the Croatian Medical Association, the Croatian Vertebrological Society, the Croatian Society for Pediatric Orthopedics, and a member of the board of directors of the Croatian Association of Orthopedics and Traumatologists. As an author or co-author, he has written numerous scientific, professional and review papers published in magazines in the country and abroad, and he is also a co-author of several chapters in books and textbooks. He is married and the father of five children.

At Policlinica Scipion, he runs a scoliosis clinic, and together with a team of physiotherapists and kinesiologists, he applies the most modern methods of treating developmental disorders of the spine, primarily in children and adolescents, but also in the adult population.

Dr. Sc. Hrvoje Šimić

Specialist in neurosurgery

In addition to being declared the best young scientist in the field of clinical medical sciences in 2013, at the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka, his professional training took place in the area of ​​wide interests, both in neurosurgery, physiology and endoscopy, and included specialization, doctoral study and scientific work, and participation in educations:

16.01.2009. Course in microdialysis – KB Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia
13-16.01.2010. Course on treatment of articular and periarticular fractures, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia
11-13.04.2010. Basic Intracranial Endoscopy – Aesculap Academy, Debrecen, Hungary
19-23.04.2010. Microsurgery course Zurich, UH Zurich, Switzerland
29.09.-01.10.2011. Sulci, Gyiri, Ventricles and Dissecting Fibers – hands-on neuroanatomy course, Braga, Portugal
14.11.2014. Maribor Spine – hands on course, Maribor, Slovenia
09.11.2019 – 10.11.2019.

Endoscopic endonasal surgery of pituitary lesions, 1st SeENS Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery Workshop, Zagreb, Croatia.

AOSpine Advanced Level Specimen Course—Rebalancing the Spine with Anterior and Posterior Techniques, Budapest, Hungary
6.02.-01.03.2012. EANS full 4-year cycle of Training courses
24.-28.02.2013. Training course – Tumour – Pécs, Hungary
16-20-02.2014. Training course – Head injury and Functional Neurosurgery, Krakow, Poland
25-29.01.2015 Training course – Spine and Peripheral nerves, Barcelona, ​​Spain
Training course – Vascular Neurosurgery, Uppsala, Sweden

In addition, he is the author or co-author of 18 scientific papers in the field of physiology, operative options for treating the brain and spine, and endoscopy.

He showed a special interest in conservative treatment options for painful conditions on the spine. At Scipion Polyclinic, he runs a vertebrology clinic, where, together with a team of physiotherapists, he develops innovative methods of non-operative therapy for degenerative diseases and conditions after spinal trauma.

Prof. Dr. Sc. Radovan Mihelić

Specialist in orthopedics

He attended primary and secondary school in Opatija. In 1970, he entered the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka. After completing his internship, he got a job in 1977 at the Lovran Orthopedic Hospital, where he worked until his retirement in 2017.

At the beginning of his specialist career in 1979, he immediately started dealing with sports traumatology. Was on residency in Basel (Switzerland), where he learned arthroscopy and sports knee injuries from well-known experts (Prof. Werner Müller and others). 1984 he was among the first in Croatia to start practicing arthroscopy, which today is the basis of the treatment of athletes. 1987 spent a month at Columbia University in New York where he perfected shoulder surgery and arthroscopy. He was among the first in Croatia to perform arthroscopic stabilization of the shoulder in the early nineties.

He was the doctor of the men’s and women’s volleyball team, and later the Davis Cup team (2010-2013). 1995 silver medal in women’s volleyball. 2002, men’s volleyball world championship. He operated on numerous athletes.

As head of the Department of Orthopedics in Lovran and a member of several international associations, he organized many national and international symposia, and as president of the Croatian Society for Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy, he worked on improving arthroscopic surgery of all joints. He was an international instructor in knee and shoulder arthroscopy courses. From 2009-2017, he was a member of the board of directors of ESA-ESSKA (an international association of shoulder specialists).

He is a member of the Rijeka Association of Health Professionals in Sports, the Association of Sports Doctors of the Croatian Medical Association, he was the president of the Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology Section of the Croatian Medical Association, and several European professional associations (ESSKA, AGA, AAOS).

At the Scipion Clinic, he has been running the general orthopedic clinic since 2012, where he, together with a team of physiotherapists and kinesiologists, develops innovative methods of non-operative treatment of shoulder, hip, knee and ankle pathologies.

Dr. Tomislav Anić

Specialist in orthopedics

He was born in 1979 in Rijeka.

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka in 2006. He passed the specialist exam in orthopedics in 2012. Since 2007, he has been employed at the Special Hospital for Orthopedics “Dr. Nemec” Matulja. On several occasions, he was educated at clinics in Slovenia, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovakia and the USA. He regularly participates in important professional congresses in the country and abroad. He devotes special interest in professional training to knee and shoulder surgery.

At the Scipion Clinic, he has been running an orthopedic outpatient clinic since 2018, where, together with a team of physiotherapists and kinesitherapists, he is expanding the area of non-operative treatment of disorders of the shoulder girdle, knees and hips.

Ivor Nikolovski

Kinesiologist, kinesiotherapist, fitness trainer

Formal education: diploma of the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb, Schrot School of Kinesiotherapy, courses in DNS, Neuromuscular Control and others.

He has been working at the Scipion Polyclinic since 2015, and during that period he took over the field of kinesiotherapy of the spine, as part of the Spinal Department within our Polyclinic. It includes the zone of corrective kinesiotherapy of disorders in the growth phase, as well as preventive and therapeutic procedures in degenerative and traumatic vertebropathies. In addition, his focus is also on kinesiotherapy of shoulder girdle and hip disorders, and sports rehabilitation.

It is the initiator of our center for functional testing, which enables not only specific diagnosis of disorders, but also very precise therapeutic intervention, while shortening the total time required for treatment.

Pave Kalebić

Physiotherapist, manual therapist, kinesitherapist

Formal education: Physiotherapy studies, Mulligan School of Manual Therapy.

He has been working at Scipion Polyclinic since 2019. His own sports experience, combined with intensive practical education within our institution, directed his interest towards the physiotherapy of acute and chronic sports injuries and degenerative diseases of the joints, especially of the knees and hips.

Danijel Biondić

Physiotherapist, Osteopath, manual therapist, kinesiotherapist

Formal education: high school of physiotherapy, professional study of physiotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka, where he was recognized as the best student. Academy of Osteopathy, Mulligan School of Manual Therapy. Education in clinical neurodynamics, kinesiotaping, spinal manipulations, and many others.

He has been working at the Scipion Clinic since 2012, during which time he independently established an osteopathic outpatient clinic, with a special interest in the field of holistic approach to diagnosis and therapy of the starting system, as well as an integrative approach in the treatment of mechanical visceral and neurological disorders. He is the initiator of a unique conciliar environment within clinical decision-making, which has become a trademark of our Polyclinic.

Official physiotherapist of the Croatian volleyball team in 2012/2013.

He is a member of the Croatian Society of Osteopaths.

Dario Djurić

Physiotherapist, manual therapist, fitness trainer

Formal education: High School of Physiotherapy, Mulligan School of Manual Therapy.

Scipion started working at the Polyclinic in 2016 as a fitness trainer. Intensive practical education within our institution and outside it, focus his interest in kinesiotherapy of overexertion syndrome, as well as complex physiotherapy procedures in degenerative diseases, especially of the spine and joints of the upper extremity.

Dario Bogović

Fitness trainer, fitness coach, kinesiotherapy

Formal education: Study of fitness preparation of athletes at KIF, school for fitness instructors.

He has been employed at the Scipion Polyclinic since 2009, when he took over the sports program at our institution, and takes care of the physical preparation of professional athletes who gravitate to our institution. He is also the manager of recreational and preventive programs for the general population and convalescents. Within the educational and experiential framework of our institution, he specialized in kinesiotherapy of knees, hips and ankles, with a special interest in the late phase of post-operative recovery of athletes, and as a preparation for returning to sports.

Generations of professional and recreational athletes have passed through his expert hands and are still passing through in search of a quick return to full sports fitness.

Marija Pavlović

Fizioterapeut, manualni terapeut, kinezioterapeut

Službena naobrazba: srednja fizioterapeutska škola, studij za fizioterapiju, Bowen škola manualne terapije, Mulligan škola manualne terapije.

Tijekom svog rada u poliklinici Scipion, koji je započeo 2008.godine, specijalizirala se za mekotkivne tehnike u manualnoj terapiji. Njena vještina, iskustvo i istančani osjećaj nezamjenjivi su unutar kompleksnih rehabilitacijskih postupaka u neoperativnoj i postoperativnoj rehabilitaciji, naročito kod kroničnih degenerativnih oboljenja zglobova.

Marko Grgurović​

Physiotherapist, manual therapist, kinesitherapist

Formal education: high school of physiotherapy, study for physiotherapy, Cyriax school of manual therapy, Mulligan school of manual therapy, PNF school. Courses in FMS, clinical neurodynamics, kinesiotape, and others.

He has been working at the Scipion Polyclinic since 2007. During that period, and through intensive internal and external education, as well as through collaboration with numerous orthopedists, he specialized in preoperative preparation and postoperative rehabilitation in orthopedics, and is the head of our institution’s department for postoperative rehabilitation. In the broad spectrum of his interests, the treatment of chronic degenerative joint diseases occupies a special place.

Zoran Soldan

Physiotherapist
Co-founder and deputy director of Polyclinic Scipion

Formal education: High School of Physiotherapy, study for physiotherapy. School of orthopedic manual therapy according to the Kaltenborn/Evjenth concept, Katarine Schrot school for three-dimensional kinesiotherapy of scoliosis, Mulligan school of manual therapy, and education in clinical neurodynamics, spinal manipulations, neuromuscular control and others.

He has been working at the Scipion Clinic since 2004, and through intensive internal and external education, he specializes in the treatment of spine diseases. He is the founder and head of the spinal department of our polyclinic, within which he creates a unique approach to diagnosis, treatment and prevention of functional disorders of the spine based on the latest scientific knowledge and experience.

Educator in the field of prevention and treatment of vertebropathies, both institutionally (HUZDUK, UZDUŠ) and non-institutionally, through courses and workshops.

At one time, he was a physiotherapist in several local football clubs.

Dean Mistura

Physiotherapist, kinesitherapist, manual therapist, sports physiotherapist,
Founder and director of Polyclinic Scipion

Formal education: High School of Physiotherapy, study for physiotherapy, Cyriax School of Manual Therapy, Mulligan School of Manual Therapy, Stecco Fascial Manipulation, Ackermann School of Chiropractic, Sonoskills School of Diagnostic Ultrasound, and other educations in the field of manual therapy, kinesiotherapy and diagnosis of the propulsion system.

In the past three decades, the official physiotherapist of the Croatian volleyball, sailing, swimming and athletic teams, as well as several volleyball, basketball and handball clubs. As part of the medical team, he participated in a whole series of international sports competitions, including the last four Olympics (Beijing, London, Rio, Tokyo), and many ATP tournaments, including all four Grand Slams.

In a broad practical educational framework in physical medicine and manual therapy, specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of functional disorders of the shoulder girdle, knee, hip and ankle.

Educator in the field of prevention and treatment of sports injuries both institutionally (HZDUK, UZDUŠ, Faculty of Health Studies in Rijeka…), and extra-institutionally in the general population and among recreational athletes, and by conducting courses for doctors and physiotherapists in the narrow field of shoulder girdle pathology, as in Croatia, as well as in Europe.

Personal physiotherapist of a whole series of professional athletes such as Ivan Ljubičić, Maja Poljak, Sara Kolak and many others.

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