Dr. Montserrat Bernabeu has been honored this year with the Professional Excellence Award given by the College of Doctors of Barcelona (CoMB). This recognition is due to his outstanding professional career, characterized by commitment, honesty, altruism, integrity and excellence. Dr. Bernabeu, current care director and co-director of the Institut Guttmann, is a doctor specialized in Physical...
Professor J. Fawcett visited the hospital and met with members of the care team and researchers from the Institut Guttmann. He explained the research related to the regeneration of spinal cord injury that he has been carrying out at the Cambridge University, Brain Repair Center. Recognized and prestigious international scientist, his main field of study is the repair of damage to the central...
The Ministry of the Interior has awarded the Institut Guttmann with the "Silver Cross of the Order of Merit of the Civil Guard" for our institution's commitment to "the promotion and defense of the rights of people with disabilities and serious spinal cord and neurological injuries". The distinction has been dedicated to the Institut Guttmann for developing hospital and scientific activities...
A research project between the Institute of Neurosciences of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Institut Guttmann has received one of the Bioethics Grants awarded by the Víctor Grífols y Lucas Foundation. The aim of the proposal is to create a meeting point between students of the Master's in Neurosciences at the UAB and patients with neurological disorders in order to promote...
The Institut Guttmann is already promoting the new and ambitious patronage project "The Guttmann Heart" ("El Cor de Guttmann"), to build a new neurorehabilitation area with an efficient architectural solution, the most innovative technology in neurorehabilitation and digital transformation processes that allow offering the best functional rehabilitation for people with neurological impairment. A...
"Back to the origins" is the name of the initiative, promoted by the Institut Guttmann , which has led 4 patients to travel to England to participate in the WheelPower Inter Spinal Unit Games at the hospital of Stoke Mandeville. For a week, patients, accompanied by professionals from the Institut Guttmann, competed in this event in the UK, taking part in a wide variety of sports including...
Accompanied by the Minister of Health, Manel Balcells, they highlighted the role of the Institut Guttmann as a monographic hospital with high specialization in Neurorehabilitation and the only CSUR center in Catalonia. Today we were visited by the President of the Generalitat Pere Aragonès accompanied by the Minister of Health, Manel Balcells, the accidental mayoress of Badalona City Council, Rosa...
From the 2nd to the 9th September, the fifth edition of the Camp Spinal H2O took place, a sports camp for people with a spinal cord injury from all over Europe organized by the Institut Guttmann and the Sunnaass Foundation in Norway. This edition welcomed a total of 22 participants, people who have acquired a recent spinal cord injury, coming from Catalonia and other areas of Spain, Norway, Sweden...
Today, September 4th, we inaugurate the first edition of the Permanent Training Master in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation at the Institut Guttmann Neurorehabilitation hospital. The master's degree, completely renewed both in terms of theoretical-practical format and content, will have a total of 7 students, all of them psychologists. The general objective of the new master's degree is to train...
On July 10th, 11th and 12th, 8 young people from child rehabilitation participated in a new edition of this campus organized by the Fundació Institut Guttmann. During 3 days of coexistence in a camp house of the Fundesplai Foundation, located in Vilanova de Sau, they enjoyed a natural environment right next to the Sau swamp. Among the activities carried out, they were at the swimming pool, and...
