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For the second year in a row we have the collaboration of Espinaler and we have made two proposals of Christmas gifts for people and companies who want to show their solidarity with the Friends of the Institut Guttmann and to wish their family, friends, colleagues and workers a Merry Christmas, while helping us to make our hospital a more comfortable place, to carry out innovative care projects...

A Institut Guttmann research project has been selected in the latest edition of La Marató de TV3, held in December 2021 and dedicated to mental health. The selected teams received their awards at a ceremony held on 3 November. The project awarded is "Non-invasive home-based brain stimulation to treat treatment-resistant depression: feasibility, efficacy and biomarkers of treatment response", led...

The Hospital Germans Trias and the Institut Guttmann create a referral circuit that allows these types of patients to operate on a regular basis. As of September, the Germans Trias Hospital and the Institut Guttmann have started a joint collaboration to perform bariatric surgery in patients with spinal cord injuries and morbid obesity. It is the first agreement between health organizations to...

We are preparing the second edition of Active Life, a program of empowerment, community training and initiation to independent living. It will take place from November 7 to 20 and will consist of two weeks of living together for a group of 6 people who have a spinal cord injury. They will acquire new tools and put into practice their skills to live alone with the necessary supports to develop in...

On Wednesday, September 21st, the Institut Guttmann performed a nerve transposition surgery at the Neurorehabilitation Hospital located in Badalona to improve the functionality of the quadriplegic patient's hand. This neuro-orthopedic surgery allows the transfer of a preserved nerve to another nerve located below the area of ​​the spinal cord injury in order to recover the original function of the...

The Institut Guttmann, in collaboration with the Social and Participation Council, organizes the seminar New leaderships to promote social innovation with the aim of contributing to the preparation of new leaders in the field of disability, helping the necessary generational change in this sector and promote, within this framework, the role of women with disabilities. The seminar is inspired by...

Last Sunday, September 25, took place the 4th edition of the Barber Solidari day organized by Olga Arrieta de la Fuente, barber from the town of Súria. The event brought together in Plaça Sant Joan de Súria, and barbers from all over Catalonia, and some from outside Catalonia, cut the hair of people of all ages who showed their solidarity. In addition, other companies contributed to making the day...

The Conseller de Salut, Honorable Mr. Josep M. Argimon, visited the Institut Guttmann, Neurorehabilitation hospital, last Friday, July 9, accompanied by Mrs. Montse Morante, head of Cabinet and Mrs. Anna Aran, manager of the North Barcelona Health Region of the SCS. The reason for the visit was to get to know our institution and the work we do as a Neurorehabilitation Monographic Center. The...

After two years stopped by the Covid, we are already celebrating a new edition of the Spinal Camp H2O, the international campus co-organized by the Institut Guttmann and the Sunnaas Hospital in Norway in which, for a week aquatic and cultural activities will be carried out, , taking advantage of the resources offered by the environment. This year, 22 people with spinal cord injury are taking part...

The Institut Guttmann is celebrating, today 5th September, the Spinal Cord Injury Day, an international day to increase awareness and knowledge of this type of injury among citizens. This year the specific theme is: "Spinal cord injury in conflicts and disasters, how to prepare and prevent", with the aim of raising awareness of the difficulties that people with spinal cord injury have to face in...