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With thanks to the Institut Guttmann team, who have given me the opportunity to see, first-hand, a shocking but all too unknown reality. Many congratulations for your personal involvement in bringing science and humanity into so many daily tragedies. With the hope that, one day, we will be like the countries “further north”, where they say the people are “clean, noble, cultured, rich, free, alert...

With sincere thanks to the Institut Guttmann, for all your work throughout an already long history, for your realistic hopes, for saving people from despair. On my visit today, on 7 April, International Health Day, devoted to the modern epidemic of road accidents. Having visited the magnificent facilities, I have reaffirmed my conviction that cars are a symbol of freedom and well-being, but that...

For me it is a pleasure to be here at Fundación Guttmann, a well-known institution which I have been aware of and admired for many years. Together, from the Generalitat of Catalonia, from the Department of Health, we will move forward.

Creation of the Social Participation Council of the Institut Guttmann, the first of its kind in Spain. Agreement with Spaulding Rehabilitation Centre and Harvard University for the Spanish issue of the rehabilitation magazine "Rehab in Review."

Today I am experiencing a very special feeling. Signing this book makes me feel committed to the goal of seeking and defending the rights of all those people who have a disability. As a Mayor, and as a person, I feel honoured to have this institution in my city, in the centre of Canyet i Pomar, the place where I spent my happy childhood. As such I want to make a commitment to making every effort...

Today I “have been able to see,” admire and feel proud of and happy with what people of good will are capable of doing to help others. I cherish this important dream, which is vital for people who become disabled and represents a turning point in the lives of many people; nowadays it is truly essential. As a former patron of the Fundación Guttmann, it feels great to share a magical moment with the...

On the occasion of my first visit to Institut Guttmann, I would like to sincerely thank its President and all the members of its Board as well as those who, every day at the Centre, enable patients with functional problems in the area of neurorehabilitation to have hopeful future. I wish you every success for this future of HOPE.

Creation and development of the Clinical Research Unit in neurorehabilitation and technology applied to disability.

Inauguration of new Neurorehabilitation Hospital in Badalona. Chief promoter in Spain of the concept of intensive gait training and gait rehabilitation techniques with partial suspension of body weight.

Presentation of the wheelchair basketball team Institut Guttmann-FC Barcelona..