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This year the Technical Conferences, opened by Ms. Neus Munté, vice-chair of the Government of Catalonia and Dr. Josep M. Ramírez, managing director of the Institut Guttmann, have received exceptionally the most important congresses of specialists in spinal cord injury; the XXII National Conferences of the Spanish Society of Paraplegia (SEP) and the XXI Symposium of the Spanish Association of Skilled Nursing in the Injured Spinal Cord (ASELME).

The Institut Guttmann organizes from 28th to 30th October the XXVII edition of Institut Guttmann Technical Symposia, this year in a very special occasion because of the 50th anniversary of the hospital. The event will meet the XXVI National Conferences of the Spanish Society of Paraplegia (SEP), the XXI Symposium of the Spanish Association of Special Nursing in the Injured Spinal (ASELME), the first Conferences on Technology and Functional Rehabilitation and also a Debate of Social Innovation and Disability.

Yesterday, 5th October, the Institut Guttmann gathered more than 350 people in ONCE’s Auditorium in Barcelona, to discover how to guide the brain throughout live. With the title “Promoting brain health” and with the speaker Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Dean of Translational Research and scientific advisor to the Institut Guttmann.

This Sunday September 20th the Institut Guttmann took part in the great festival of fitness, organized by the Barcelona Sports Institute (IBE), that on the occasion of the Festes de la Mercè took place in the Avenida de la Reina Maria Cristina of Barcelona.

Under the name of Fitness Day, the fitness session on the street that has the main objective of promoting the sport among citizens, and it wanted to be, once again, inclusive, and demonstrate that people with disabilities can also participate in the sport.