Identity of the Order: reasons for choice

Logo Ordem dos Fisioterapeutas

The Installation Commission of the Order of Physiotherapists promoted a competition for the development of its personal identity. Several proposals were presented, and the installing commission decided on the one that presented the best guarantees of fulfilling the objective of a professional identity.

The option for a sober, yet current brand that could transmit and identify the Order's work in any context was a priority. Knowing that digital environments will be privileged in the order's contact with its associates and partners, we sought an identity adapted to this reality, easily applicable to any communication platform.

The identity is developed from rounded shapes favoring the blue colour, which is already part of the references of physiotherapists. The option for the blue colour is due to the fact that it is the representative colour of the profession, but also the colour of sympathy, harmony and fidelity. Through the rounded shapes we transmit movement and dynamism, values that we consider essential in Physiotherapy and in the Order of Physiotherapists.

Memorandum of Understanding with the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists

Memorando Apfisio

The memorandum of understanding between the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists (APFisio) and the Installation Commission of the Order of Physiotherapists (OF), represents the excellent institutional relationship between the two structures, which have as a common objective the development of physiotherapy and physiotherapists in Portugal.

Following a meeting between the two structures last March, the following points of understanding between the two institutions were reached:

1. Develop efforts of institutional cooperation at national and international levels in order to defend the superior interest of Portuguese physiotherapists;

2. To establish the progressive and necessary conditions so that, as soon as possible, the OF will have a seat, by affiliation, in the World Physiotherapy, thus ceasing the participation of APFisio in the aforementioned organ;

3. APFisio authorizes the OF to use the documents published by APFisio and World Physiotherapy translated and adapted by APFisio, which may be the object of its own edition by the OF;

4. The setting up committee of the OF undertakes to define the relationship model with the APFisio interest groups until the formal creation of the Specialty Colleges of the OF;

5. The APFisio Board of Directors recognises the OF as the natural "heir" to its historical role.

Pedro Maciel Barbosa

Specialist physiotherapist at the Matosinhos Local Health Unit Sub-coordinator for Primary Health Care, Matosinhos Local Health Unit Visiting Assistant Professor at the Porto School of Health Member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Health - SNS Member of the General Council of the Order of Physiotherapists

Carlos Sand

Carlos Areia has been a physiotherapist since 2013, and has worked in various hospitals, clinics and clubs in both Portugal and the UK. He began his academic career at Oxford University in 2016, where he led a clinical trial comparing physiotherapy vs surgery in anterior cruciate injuries in 32 hospitals in England. In 2018 she moved to the neurosciences department, where she developed her own studies on remote monitoring of vital signs, which were implemented during the pandemic. Here he discovered his passion for data, and in 2022, he joined Digital Science as a Data Scientist. He completed his PhD earlier this year, and has more than 60 publications in journals such as The Lancet, BMJ, Cochrane, among others. He is also an honorary lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a consultant in clinical research.

Eduardo José Brazete Carvalho Cruz

PhD in Physiotherapy from the University of Brighton, UK. Post-Doctorate in Epidemiology from the National School of Public Health at the New University of Lisbon.
Coordinator of the Studies and Planning Office of the Order of Physiotherapists. Coordinating Professor of the Physiotherapy Department of the School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (ESS-IPS). President of the ESS-IPS Technical-Scientific Council. Coordinator of the Physiotherapy Department at ESS-IPS. Integrated Researcher at the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC) (a partnership between FCM-UNL, the National School of Public Health, the University of Évora, the Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health and Santo Espírito Hospital, Terceira Island, Azores).

Sara Souto Miranda

Sara Souto Miranda has a bachelor's and master's degree in physiotherapy from the University of Aveiro, and a postgraduate qualification in adult respiratory physiotherapy from the same institution. In 2023 she completed her double doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences/Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at the Universities of Aveiro and Maastricht (Netherlands) and is currently working as a technical-scientific advisor to the Studies and Planning Office (GEP) of the Order of Physiotherapists, and as a guest lecturer at the Piaget Institute in Vila Nova de Gaia. As a member of the Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation Laboratory at the University of Aveiro (Lab3R), she has carried out applied research in which she has assessed and treated patients with respiratory pathology, having taken part in 6 research projects. Throughout her career she has published 19 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor, 1 book chapter and more than 50 abstracts in conference proceedings. She was a research volunteer at the Ciro rehabilitation centre (Centre for expertise in chronic organ failure) in the Netherlands, and is currently a member of the Guideline Methodology Network of European Respiratory Society. She was honoured by European Lung Foundation e European Respiratory Society for carrying out patient-centred research, by the Directorate General for Higher Education with a merit grant for his master's degree, and by the Ciro Centre with a grant to support research abroad.

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