The Rehabilitation Department diagnoses and treats a wide range of processes, such as trauma, orthopaedic, neurological, and the pelvic floor, among others.
We are a multi-disciplinary department made up of doctors specialising in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and auxiliary nurses.
The department has a healthcare side and an educational side. In terms of degree education, we have interns from Medicine, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy and Speech therapy. In terms of post-graduate education, we are accredited to train doctors specialising in Rehabilitation.
The Rehabilitation Service currently has:
- 8 doctors specialized in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
- 44 Physiotherapists
- 5 Occupational therapies
- 1 Speech Therapist
- 4 Nursing Assistant Technician
- 3 Administrative
- 7 Porters
Staff
Head of Service
Cap de Servei
Head of Section
Facultatius/ives especialistes
Specialist Doctors
Specialist Doctors
Facultative specialist
Facultative specialist
Facultative specialist
Facultatius/ives especialistes
Facultatius/ives especialistes
Managing Physiotherapists
Fisioterapeutes gestores
Fisioterapeutes
Occupational therapists
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Speech therapist
Speech therapist
TCAI
Nursing Assistant Technician
Nursing Assistant Technician
Nursing Assistant Technician
Porters
Porter
Porter
Porter
Porter
Porter
Porter
Physiotherapists
Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Fisioterapeutes
Physiotherapist
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Physiotherapist
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Physiotherapist
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Physiotherapist
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Physiotherapist
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Physiotherapist
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Fisioterapeutes
Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist
Relevant aspects
Musculoskeletal
- Trauma rehabilitation: fractures, dislocations, multi-trauma, catastrophic hand and foot, peripheral nerve injuries.
- Orthopaedic surgery: knee, hip, ankle, shoulder, wrist, finger prosthesis. Joint instability surgery.
- Painful diseases and spinal surgery. Spinal column deformities (scoliosis, hyperkyphosis), vertebral fractures
- Degenerative and inflammatory diseases of the musculoskeletal system
- Amputations:
- Trauma
- Vascular
- Complications of the diabetic foot
- Upper limb amputations
- Rehabilitation of the after-effects of oncology treatments: soft tissue and scar retractions, microvascular muscle flaps, secondary polyneuropathies vii. After-effects of temporomandibular joint surgery
Lymphology and phlebology
- Lymphoedema
- Primary and secondary. Upper and lower limbs
- Lymphoedema of the breast and other locations
- Mixed oedema.
Pelvic floor
- Urinary incontinence
- Faecal incontinence
- Chronic pelvic pain
- Detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia
Facial Paralysis
- Bell’s Palsy
- Ramsay Hunt syndrome
- Post-tumor surgery interventions
- Post-dynamic or static reparative surgery
Neurohabilitation
- Central nervous system pathologies:
- Cerebrovascular accident
- Cranioencephalic trauma
- Myelopathies
- CNS demyelinating diseases (ME)
- Neuromuscular diseases:
- Acute and chronic inflammatory polyradiculopathies
- Motor neurone diseases: ALS functional unit, SMAs
- Myopathies
- Balance disorders
- Communication, speaking, language and swallowing disorders
Respiratory and cardiac rehabilitation programmes with strength retraining
- Heart failure, ischemic cardiomyopathy, hear transplantation
- COPD, interstitial disease, diaphragm alterations, lung transplantation
- Post-thoracic surgery
Interventionist rehabilitation
- Infiltrations with ultrasound control
- Focal spasticity treatment with botulinum toxin infiltrations and electro-stimulator or ultrasound control
- Growth factor infiltrations
- Infiltrations in myofacial pathologies
- Scar infiltrations
- Amputation stump infiltrations
- Treatment of facial paralysis with botulinum toxin
- Joint infiltrations
- Epidural infiltrations
- Nerve blocks
Instrumented function test clinic
- Posturography and gait analysis on dynamometric platforms
- Hand dynamometry
- Isokinetic knee, shoulder and ankle dynamometry
Hydrokinesitherapy
- Trauma: joint dislocations, lower limb fracture overload, upper limb fractures, spinal fractures, multi-trauma
- Orthopaedics: post-surgical intervention, knee or shoulder prosthesis, adhesive capsulitis, post-spinal fusion
- Subacute rheumatic diseases
- Diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system when muscle weakness does not allow for gravity to be overcome
- Mechanical rachialgia, lumbar spinal stenosis
Research
Lines of research
- Facial paralysis
- Facial paralysis software: “ Neuromuscular facial therapy with imaging software support in patients with peripheral facial paralysis” Ref CEIC PR224/15 Proc. 23/6/16. Special acknowledgement in the 2018 HInnovar awards
- Lymphoedema
- “Efficacy of aquatic physiotherapy in upper limb lymphoedema in post-breast cancer women. Controlled experimental study. (Ref Proc. 10/18) “INFLUENCE OF THE TYPE OF AXILLARY SURGERY ON THE APPEARANCE OF LYMPHOEDEMA IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS” CEIC Ref PR004/13. Proc. 03/13 Multi-centric study. Circaid clinical trial: “Comparison of the Effectiveness of a Precast Adjustable Compression Wrap With the Multilayer Compression Bandage in Upper Limb Lymphoedema” (currently being published in the form of an original article)
- “Efficacy of aquatic physiotherapy in upper limb lymphoedema in post-breast cancer women. Controlled experimental study. (Ref Proc. 10/18) “INFLUENCE OF THE TYPE OF AXILLARY SURGERY ON THE APPEARANCE OF LYMPHOEDEMA IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS” CEIC Ref PR004/13. Proc. 03/13 Multi-centric study. Circaid clinical trial: “Comparison of the Effectiveness of a Precast Adjustable Compression Wrap With the Multilayer Compression Bandage in Upper Limb Lymphoedema” (currently being published in the form of an original article)
- Osteoarticular
- MINECO grant with the Department of Physiology of the University of Barcelona: “Synergistic effect of cold and hypoxia in tissue repair” (2013-2018)
Main Publications
- 2016
- Marta Gomez-Cuba, Ana Perreau de Pinninck-Gaynes, Rosa Planas-Balagué, Nicolas Manito, José González-Costello. Rehabilitation in Heart Failure: Update and New Horizons. Curr Phys Med Rehabil Rep DOI 10.1007/s40141-016-0125-6
- Limfedema de parènquima de mama: a proposito de dos casos clínicos. S Salinas Huertas, MLL Catasús Clavé, M Gómez Cuba, R Planas Balagué. Rehabilitación, 2016 :50(3);187-189
- 2017
- Title: Effectiveness of an intensive weight loss program for severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) treatment: a randomized controlled trial. Sleep Medicine
Corresponding Author: Carmen Monasterio
Co-Authors: Carla López-Padrós, Neus Salord, Carolina Alves, Nuria Vilarrasa, Mercè Gasa, Rosa Planas, Monica Montserrat, M. Nuria Virgili, Carmen Rodríguez, Sandra Pérez-Ramos, Esther López-Cadena, M. Inmaculata Ramos, Jordi Dorca Sargatal
Ref: 818229
Ref: Effectiveness of a precast adjustable compression system compared to multilayered compression bandages in the treatment of breast cancer related lymphedema. A randomized, single blind clinical trial.
- Title: Effectiveness of an intensive weight loss program for severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) treatment: a randomized controlled trial. Sleep Medicine
Education
Degree Education
- Graduate education: Medicine Students from the Bellvitge Campus, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Speech therapy, Auxiliary nurses
- Post-graduate education: Residents specialising in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University Master’s Degree in Thorax Physiotherapy
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