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...
The Institut Guttmann has participated in the 6th International Congress of Aquatic Activities, an annual event, which brings together experts from the area of aquatic education, special physical conditioning and aquatic therapy. It is organized by the Miguel Hernández University of Elche with the support of the Iberoamerican Association of Aquatic Education, Special education and Hydrotherapy...
On Friday the first work visit was done in the works of the new project "Guttmann - La Sagrera", which is already a reality. A working group formed by the management team and professionals from different areas could know the current situation of the project closely, in order to begin working together to promote the inauguration of the new building prepared to provide the best service for people to...
Eurecat has awarded the Research and Innovation Office of the Institut Guttmann in the category of Innovative Research Center "for its constant effort to incorporate the new technologies in the service of the processes of rehabilitation and the advancement of neuroscience and the great impact Social achievement ". Dr. Josep M. Tormos, research coordinator, attended the ceremony that took place on...
