The Institut Guttmann and the Minority Neuromuscular Disease Unit of the Department of Neurosciences of the Germans Trias Hospital have initiated a comprehensive care program for people with neuromuscular diseases. The program includes, among others, a multidisciplinary consultation that allows patients to offer comprehensive care in a single medical appointment that avoids journeys while...
Students, professors, relatives and friends filled the Guttmann Institute Audit Room at the graduation ceremony of the Neurorehabilitation and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Masters of the University Institute of Neurorehabilitation. Dr. Josep M. Ramírez, Managing Director of the Institut Guttmann, welcomed the attendees and gave way to the speech of Professor Ignacio Morgado, Professor and...
The Institut Guttmann in collaboration with Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital surgeons team, has operated on two patients for the placement of a diaphragmatic implant. One of the cases was a patient of 9 years old, who had already been implanted some time ago and needed a revision of the cables. The other one was a patient of 18 years old, with quadriplegia, that immediately after the surgery, in the...
The Institut Guttmann in collaboration with the team of surgeons of the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol has intervened two patients for the placement of a diaphragmatic implant to facilitate ventilation through electrical stimulation of the diaphragm. This procedure consists of a device that, surgically implanted in the diaphragm, causes a muscular contraction of the diaphragm and offers patients...
The Institut Guttmann has participated in the 6th International Congress of Aquatic Activities, an annual event, which brings together experts from the area of aquatic education, special physical conditioning and aquatic therapy. It is organized by the Miguel Hernández University of Elche with the support of the Iberoamerican Association of Aquatic Education, Special education and Hydrotherapy...
On Friday the first work visit was done in the works of the new project "Guttmann - La Sagrera", which is already a reality. A working group formed by the management team and professionals from different areas could know the current situation of the project closely, in order to begin working together to promote the inauguration of the new building prepared to provide the best service for people to...
Eurecat has awarded the Research and Innovation Office of the Institut Guttmann in the category of Innovative Research Center "for its constant effort to incorporate the new technologies in the service of the processes of rehabilitation and the advancement of neuroscience and the great impact Social achievement ". Dr. Josep M. Tormos, research coordinator, attended the ceremony that took place on...
The Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the Labor Relations Council of Catalonia has chosen the Institut Guttmann to make the annual visit to an organization of interest for its work in social responsibility. Today the group has been received at the hospital facilities, where they have been able to get to know the Foundation first-hand and closely, especially in the area of corporate...
The CIMA Foundation (International Center for Ancient Music by its Catalan acronym) was held on May 29 a concert of early music in the hospital. The performers, two musicians refugees from Syria, the singer and lutenist Waed Bouhassoun and the flutist (ney) Moslem Rahal, offered two small recitals in the area of functional rehabilitation, in order to introduce music in neurorehabilitation...
On Saturday, June 10th, thanks to good weather and wind conditions, users of Sports & Life Guttmann Club, all of them former patients of the Institut Guttmann suffering from spinal cord injury or multiple sclerosis, were able to enjoy the exceptional and wonderful sensation of flying In paramotor as well as discover, in bird's eye, the magnificent natural environment that make up the Àger valley...
