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Zhenya Kurashova Wine immigrated to the USA from the former USSR in 1980. While living in Riga, Latvia, Zhenya received a degree as a physiotherapist specializing in Manual therapy, Hydrotherapy, Heliotherapy, and Balneotherapy by finishing an intensive one year program offered by the Ministry of Health to already health professionals in 1976. Zhenya held a nursing degree, which she received in 1975. For 6 months after completing the Physiotherapy Program Zhenya K. Wine worked in cardiac rehab of the Latvia State Hospital providing physiotherapy services on an in-patient basis. During that time she completed 6 months of extended study in Sports Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation. Upon the completion of Sports Certification she was employed by the Latvia’s National Sports Committee to provide physiotherapy services to the national teams of rowers, hand gun shooters, and cross country bicyclists. From 1977-1980 Zhenya K. Wine was the chief physiotherapist providing preventative treatments and rehabilitation treatments of 40 World-Class and Olympic athletes.
Upon her immigration to the USA in 1980 Zhenya K. Wine received a degree as a COTA (Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant) in 1981, and practiced as a COTA/L at the Columbus Developmental Center in Columbus, Ohio working with a diverse developmentally disabled population. She stopped her practice of Occupational Therapy in 1983 to have a family. Zhenya continued practicing Manual and Natural therapies throughout her years in Columbus, Ohio, working in private practice.
In 1986, while residing in Chapel Hill, NC, Zhenya K. Wine established the Kurashova Institute for Clinical Studies, the goal of which was to provide health professionals with scientific knowledge of Russian Natural and Manual therapy. Zhenya Kurashova Wine was proud to offer to the health community her own Manual Therapy Technique (Kurashova Re-Education™), which is based on Russian School of Manual Therapy and Natural Remedies, which has proved its value and place in Russia’s traditional health care for the past 120 years.
As a Founder of the Kurashova Institute and being its principal teacher, Zhenya Kurashova Wine in the past 18 years taught over 400 workshops throughout North America, Europe, and Australia providing education to thousands of health professionals. She has presented her method of treatment at 16 State and 3 National AMTA conventions, Saskatuan Massage Therapists Convention in Regina, SASK Canada, 6 International Sports Massage Conferences, the 3rd International Physical Therapy Foundation Conference in Vancouver, Canada, the Australian Bodywork Conference, in Melbourne, Australia, the International Conference of Estheticians in Miami, Florida, and the International Conference of Esthetics in Madrid, Spain. She was one of the key presenters at the International Anatriptic Arts Expo in San Francisco (along with Bernie Siegel); Zhenya K. Wine has also presented her protocol for treatment of carpal-tunnel syndrome at the International Carpal-Tunnel seminars conducted by Dr. M.R. Malley.
Zhenya K. Wine and the Kurashova Institute has re-established professional exchange between Russia and USA in the field of Natural and Physical Medicine by conducting 5 study trips to the former USSR in 1990, 1992, 1997, and 2001, and by bringing the top specialists in Russian Natural and Physical Medicine to lecture in the USA.
Zhenya Kurashova Wine is a true pioneer in the field of Manual Therapies bringing previously unknown Russian Rehabilitation techniques to North America and the West and thus providing the world with the leading techniques in the fields of Natural and Physical Medicine developed and researched in Russia. Besides being an educator through conducting lectures and seminars, Zhenya K. Wine is an accomplished writer. To her credit is a 200 page manual detailing physiologically based technique as practiced in Russia, as well as over 90 articles, which were and are being published in Massage magazine, AMTA Journal, Massage and Bodywork magazine, Sof’T Issues (Australian Bodywork Journal), and many other national and international journals and publications. For 8 years she had a regular column on her technique and treatment protocols in Massage magazine, in which she answered questions from the readers on the use of Manual Therapy when addressing medical dysfunctions. Zhenya K. Wine, in her quest to bring the Medical aspects of manual therapy to the North American Health community, has translated more than a dozen research studies done in the field of Physiotherapy by prestigious Russian Physiatrists in Russian Hospitals and Medical schools in the past twenty years.
Zhenya K. Wine has also held a clinical practice in Chapel Hill, NC from 1986-1989, in Davenport, IA from 1992-1994. 1999- 2001 Zhenya Wine was seeing patients at the Kurashova Clinic in Moline, IL (practice generated from 100% physician referrals), and in 2002 she went to practice her treatments with a local area physician. Currently Ms. Wine operates Russian Medical Massage clinic in Moline, IL.
She is committed to providing patients and students with the best of what manual therapy has to offer for management of pain and prevention of dysfunction through her clinical experience, teaching, and writing.
In the past 10 years Zhenya has trained three highly qualified individuals to teach Health Professionals Kurashova Re-Education™ technique and treatment protocols, which she developed and patented.
For the past four years Ms. Wine has been training Physical and Occupational Therapists through special seminars conducted in Clinics and Hospitals across the Mid-West. Several hospitals have adopted her treatment for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Sciatica as the “standard-of-care” protocols for these conditions.
In 2003 Zhenya Wine has been awarded a status of Professor of Manual Therapy by the Manual Therapy Academy in Moscow, Russia.
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