Twenty participants from the Institut Guttmann and participants of Sports & Life Guttmann Club, together with the 30 participants of Camp Spinal H2O and their staff, participated together in the Mile of Poblenou, a sports event and a celebration that marks the beginning of a Barcelona neighborhood. The popular race became a very inclusive race!
After six intense days, on Friday, 8th September, closed the first edition of the Spinal Camp H2O, an international campus for water activities co-organized by the Institut Guttmann and the Sunnaas Hospital (Norway) that took place in the localities of Barcelona, Torredembarra and Badalona. The group of members was formed by 30 young people with spinal injuries from different Nordic countries and...
The Minority Neuromuscular Diseases Unit of the Department of Neurosciences of the Germans Trias Hospital and the Institut Guttmann have started a comprehensive care program for people with neuromuscular diseases. This program includes, among others, a multidisciplinary consultation that was launched last Wednesday, July 26th. These work sessions are composed of neurologists, pulmonologists...
We have returned to Torredembarra with Sports & Life Guttmann Club, where with the Onawa of M. Rota Diving, an accessible catamaran, we sailed to the open sea. On the coast of Altafulla we have dived and enjoyed the marine biotopes that allow to observe the flora and native fauna in an exceptional way. It has been a great experience for everybody!
Sports & Life Guttmann Club has organized a weekend of paddle surfing in Cabrera de Mar with two groups of patients, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday. Both wheelchair users and their friends and family could have their first contact with this water sport, as well as enjoy a swim in the sea, a pleasure that some of them had not been able to experience for years.
Sports & Life Guttmann Club has organized a weekend of paddle surfing in Cabrera de Mar with two groups of patients, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday. Both wheelchair users and their friends and family could have their first contact with this water sport, as well as enjoy a swim in the sea, a pleasure that some of them had not been able to experience for years.
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...
