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
Head of Section
Specialist Doctors
Managing Physiotherapists
Occupational therapists
Speech therapist
TCAI
Porters
Physiotherapists
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
Annex Building of the Bellvitge University Hospital - Old Nursing School Building
Feixa Llarga no number, st. | 08907 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. Barcelona
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