The Neurorehabilitation Hospital pavilion has been filled with joy and surprises to celebrate the Christmas holidays with the children. Accompanied by their fathers, mothers, siblings and friends, they laughed and had a great time with a theater and Chinese shadow show performed by the company La Boia Teatre. The excitement grew when the children participated in the traditional Tió and with the...
The Social Action Association DISCAN, the company Elanco Animal Health and the Institut Guttmann have established a collaboration agreement to launch a program of assisted therapy with dogs. This program is designed to help patients in the hospital's Functional Rehabilitation Area, who meet certain requirements, improve their self-esteem, autonomy, self-confidence and sensory perception, as well...
n an event held today at the Institut Guttmann-Hospital for Neurorehabilitation, the Chief of Police of Catalonia, Principal Commissioner Luis Fernando Pascual; the manager and co-director, Ms. Montse Caldés; and the president of the Barcelona Health Foundation, Dr. Lluís Donoso, have proceeded to sign a collaboration agreement through which the National Police will facilitate access to process...
This year, the seventh edition of Ibainéfico, a solidarity event organized by Ibai Llanos, has been allocated to the Institut Guttmann Foundation. A live program on the Twitch platform on Friday night served to publicize our Foundation. The sports pavilion of the Neurorehabilitation Hospital in Badalona became a set where Ibai Llanos and Gerard Piqué, together with the presidents of the teams that...
Last Tuesday, November 28, Dr. Davide Cappon gave a talk to the professionals of the Institut Guttmann in a hybrid, virtual and face-to-face format in the Agora room of Guttmann Barcelona, where he talked about the advances in clinical research in the field of neuromodulation. Cappon, is a clinical neuropsychologist at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife...
On November 27, the Professional Excellence Award ceremony by the College of Doctors of Barcelona (CoMB) was held in the AXA Auditorium, in which Dra. Montserrat Bernabeu has been distinguished this year for her outstanding professional career, characterized by commitment, honesty, altruism, integrity and excellence. Dr. Bernabeu, current care director and co-director of the Institut Guttmann, is...
This week we celebrate at the Institut Guttmann! On November 27, our Foundation turned 58 years old. Professionals, patients and family members have shared and captured moments in a photocall to celebrate the long history of an entity that works from the welfare, social field and as a knowledge center, to improve the lives of people who have acquired a disability due to a neurological injury or...
The podcast Beines de Mielina, co-produced jointly by the Institut Guttmann and Badalona Comunicació, has been awarded the 13th Pilar Casanova Prize for the Best Communication Action by the Catalan Association of Journalists. In presenting the award, the jury highlighted the podcast's rigorous approach to informing the public about neuroscience, the accessibility of the sound product for the...
The 4th edition of Active Life, sponsored by Sabadell Seguros, is the start of a new stage for 6 young people with recent spinal cord injuries. For two weeks, these participants have dedicated themselves with full intensity to transfer the knowledge and skills learned during their rehabilitation in the hospital with the aim of recovering their functional autonomy to the maximum and building an...
The Institut Guttmann has hosted the presentation of the Manual of Good Practices of Humanisation in Spinal Cord Injury, a document that establishes for the first time the strategic lines and good practices necessary to achieve humanised spinal cord injury units (SCIUs). The initiative is included in HUMANIZALE, a project promoted by Hollister and EVEN - Expert Group on Neurogenic Bladder, formed...
