As every year, the Christmas holidays have come to the neurorehabilitation hospital with excitement. A group of professionals set up as a choral group offered a repertoire of Christmas carols to patients and relatives, getting everyone encouraged to sing and have a good time, thus opening the celebrations of this holiday. Catalan rumba was the star of the party aimed at adult patients and their...
The Institut Guttmann Foundation incorporates Professor Álvaro Pascual-Leone into its clinical team to promote the Guttmann Brain Health Institute initiative in the new Guttmann Barcelona building. Álvaro Pascual-Leone, neurologist and professor at Harvard Medical School is today the most cited Spanish neuroscientist in current scientific literature, considered one of the most influential...
The Minister of Health of the Government of Andorra, Mr. Martínez Benazet, has come to the hospital accompanied by Dr. Josep M. Piqué, director of the Andorran health care service, Dr. Marcel Prats, care director, and Ms. Helena Mas, Secretary of State for Health. After a working meeting with members of the Institut Guttmann management team, they have been able to take a tour of the main...
The Institut Guttmann through the Guttmann Talks initiative has initiated a new line of action with companies that are sensitive to diversity, with the aim of improving their environments, their service and, in general, social awareness towards people with disabilities. A case of success in this line has been the action taken with the company Ticketmaster, a leading company in the management and...
On October 30, Palau Macaya de Barcelona hosted a new edition of the Technical Symposia of the Institut Guttmann, which talked about technological development to optimize the benefit of neurorehabilitation through more intensive, more efficient interventions, more Personalized and with a higher level of evidence. The act started with the institutional welcome by Dr. Montserrat Bernabeu, assistant...
For the second year in a row, the new Guttmann Barcelona building, in the La Sagrera neighborhood, has joined the 48h Open House Barcelona initiative, an architecture festival in which different spaces and emblematic buildings in Barcelona open its doors. Guttmann Barcelona was opened this Sunday and more than 200 people visited the building both in the morning and in the afternoon. In a very...
For the second year, the Institut Guttmann Foundation joins the 48h Open House Barcelona initiative, an architecture festival in which different spaces and emblematic buildings in Barcelona open its doors. The new Guttmann Barcelona building, in La Sagrera neighborhood, is considered of architectural interest and will be open to guided tours this Sunday, October 27th, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and...
The Institut Guttmann has hosted today a very special event that has had the participation of the NBA player and world champion Ricky Rubio, and in which the BUC Rugby Wheelchair team has received one of the ColaCao and the Higher Sports Council scholarships Pau Navarro and Darío Salcedo, two patients of the Institut Guttmann who are part of the rugby team adapted from the Barcelona Universitari...
The 3rd Camp Spinal H2O held in Barcelona from August 31st to September 6th, organized by the Sunaas Foundation and the Institut Guttmann, is consolidated as the most important water sports event for people with spinal cord injury worldwide. A week full of sporting activities in Barcelona, Badalona and Torredembarra. with the participation of spinal cord injuries "experts" as instructors, who make...
