Last Sunday 24th April, more than 40 patients, children and adults, and their families, all of them accompanied by a group of professionals of the hospital, participated on the athletic race La Milla, in Barcelona. The objective was enjoying sport and also demonstrating that people with disabilities could practice sport in an inclusive way. The race is organized by Claror Foundation since 1985...
Tuesday April 19 Institut Guttmann received the visit of Mr. Mateu, president of RACC and Mr. Antonio Gil, director of Communication and Institutional Relations of RACC who first visited the hospital facilities with the aim of establishing lines of collaboration and strengthen ties between the two institutions. During the previous meeting it became clear that Institut Guttmann and RACC have clear...
The Institut Guttmann is already preparing the next edition of its Technical Conferences, that will be dedicated this year to the topic “Neurophsycology and school: Learning disorder”. The Conferences are a essential meeting place to share knowledge, and also to discover the latest innovations on neurorehabilitation. On 2015, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Institut Guttmann, the XXVII...
After this visit, where I could see the amazig human team of the Institut Guttmann, as the President of RACC I am sure that today is the beginning of a long friendship and that we will help all this team to make happy again a lot of people. We are to help,
A young quadriplegic regain control of a hand because of a neural bypass with a chip on his brain that sends signals to muscles that control the movement. This is a step further on a research in what also the Institut Guttmann is working, with projects like Brainable, WAY and BNCI 2020. The scientific magazine Nature publishes an article about the implant of a neural bypass on a quadriplegic...
The Institut Guttmann received Saturday the "Mussol de l'Any" (Owl of the Year) Award from the City of Sant Quirze del Valles in its 24th edition. The awards, organized by the Ateneo St. Quirze and the City Hall reward institutions or individuals who stand out for their intelligence and/or philosophy, qualities given to the owl, symbol of the town that takes protagonism during these days with a...
This weekend took place in the sports hall of the Institute Guttmann the I Hockey Tournament in electric wheelchair, organized by the Dracs of Guttmann and in collaboration with Institut Guttmann. It has been two days of competition, fellowship and good sport. A large audience filled the stands of the pavilion and more than twenty volunteers helped organizational tasks. The participating teams...
The online activity "Delfines de colores" has been accredited by the Generalitat de Catalunya in its second edition. This means that the degree obtained after completion of the activity has official academic validity. "Delfines de colores" is a distance training activity given by Institut Guttmann aimed at teachers of physical education in ordinary schools with a student with physical neurological...
To the friends of the Institut Guttmann, with the government commitment to the important labor that you have been done for 50 years. We will make a more human country, but only if we are capable of building a big alliance between science, health professionals, society, citiziens and institutions. We are going to make it! A cordial hug,
It is an honor and a privilege to be here in Guttmann as a president of the Generalitat. I can bear witness to the excellent and priceless job of the professionals and volunteers that contribute to the exit of the institution. It is a real State structure, that generates a great level of attention and benefit to these people who attends. That amaze the world and makes the country feel proud. I...
