How does certified physiotherapist Gabika Chamulová perceive PRAVILO MOBILO? Here you can read a short personal interview with her.
What was your first encounter with PRAVILO MOBILO?
I first saw PRAVILO MOBILO in Sereď at the Avatar Fest. To be honest, it immediately caught my attentio. I was thinking, “What kind of wild thing are they doing with those people?” It was right at the very end of the festival when I saw Robi “hanging” people there. I was just about to leave, so I only took his contact. But PRAVILO MOBILO started working. Working in my mind.
About two weeks later, a friend of mine - a yoga and movement enthusiast, passionate about healthy living - sent me a video with this very device and asked, “Do you know this, Gabi?” That was when a higher force stepped in, and I didn’t need anything more. I decided to head to NZ. And that moment definitively sealed it for me: the moment I was hanging in it by myself. For my work and research, I have a unique laboratory: my own body. It gives me both empirical data and the lived experience at the same time.
How do you perceive pravilo in your professional practice?
For me, as a physiotherapist, PRAVILO is like a shortcut to the expected outcomes of therapy for a patient or client. It beautifully combines efficiency with effectiveness. The ingenious device has a truly significant impact on the body’s myofascial system.
Due to internal and external factors, the length and tension of the body’s soft tissues-fascia (muscle sheaths), muscles, tendons, ligaments-constantly change. Soft tissues also include the skin and the surface beneath us. The range and quality of movement depend directly on this skeletal system tension.
Myofascial technique involves manipulating the fascia, through which the body’s individual segments are interconnected and strongly influence each other. That is why I say, whether we like it or not, in the human body (the human being), everything is connected to everything else.
PRAVILO MOBILO helps me in practice in a very effective way to improve mobility and body flexibility. It replaces complex positions and movements, saving me time and energy when working with a client. On top of that, it is always “fun,” because therapy with it is very original. The effect I can achieve using pravilo would otherwise require laboriously combining various physiotherapy techniques or yoga asanas, and most importantly, it would take much longer.
The design of PRAVILO MOBILO allows for very easy adjustment of cable angles and positions, pulling force, and movement flexibility. It offers countless possibilities for using this ingeniously constructed device. At the same time, I always have the designer and developer of PRAVILO MOBILO right “at hand,” ready to provide advice or supply new accessories on the spot. Robert Szegheő is truly a great enthusiast of PRAVILO MOBILO, and I can see that reflected in our results.
In my work and practice, I very much enjoy using everything I have learned from Western medicine (school), courses, various methodologies, and techniques, combined with the wisdom of Eastern traditions (TCM – Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Yoga), whose validity has been tested by time.
And what about your goals?
My goal is clear. To achieve harmony in the body in terms of balancing muscle strength and flexibility. This balance brings a life without pain and without limitations in the musculoskeletal system, offering comfort in movement and the joy of moving. After all, movement is life. And that is my unwritten rule in my practice at Fyzio Živa.
Gabika Chamulová – About the author of the article
Bc. Gabriela Chamulová has 34 years of experience as a physiotherapist. She graduated from SZŠ in Banská Bystrica with a degree in Rehabilitation Work. After four years, she furthered her education with a two-year advanced program, earning the title of Certified Rehabilitation Specialist.
In 2008, she studied for two years at SZU in Bratislava, specializing in physiotherapy for musculoskeletal disorders. In 2010, she began studies at UCM in Trnava, furthering her education with a university degree in physiotherapy.
Alongside her studies, she completed numerous courses both in Slovakia and abroad, including hippotherapy, soft tissue and mobilization techniques, Spiraldynamics, Redcord I and II, yoga congresses, cupping, moxibustion, and more.
She worked for 31 years at the National Rehabilitation Center in Kováčová.
For the past 2.5 years, she has been running her own practice at her center, Fyzio Živa, in Zvolen. Since May 2024, she has been actively using PRAVILO MOBILO and developing physiotherapy techniques with it.
Since childhood, she has been a great enthusiast of movement. For many years she practiced dance, aerobics, TaeBo, Zumba, and jumping, and for the past 10 years, her favorite has been yoga. She enjoys hiking, swimming, skating, cycling, and continues to dance both on the dance floor and in life.
She considers her work both a hobby and a livelihood.