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Month: August 2023

Eurostat counts around 611,000 physiotherapists in the European Union

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This month, the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) published a statistical report on the number of physiotherapists, dentists and pharmacists practising in the European Union (EU).

Data on these health professions, which provide services directly to users, show that in 2021 there were around 611,000 physiotherapists working in the EU, which equates to an average of 136.7 physiotherapists per 100,000 inhabitants.

In the information broken down by Member State, the statistics for Portugal only take into account data from the public sector. However, considering the number of professionals registered with the Order of Physiotherapists - around 11,000 - Portugal has a ratio of 110 physiotherapists per 100,000 inhabitants.

Click here to access the Eurostat report.

Click here to consult the data of physiotherapists registered with the Order.

Physiotherapists provide assistance at World Youth Day 2023

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A total of 4,376 people were assisted at the World Youth Day (WYD) venues, which took place between 1 and 6 August. Official INEM data also recorded that, of these assistances, only 153 (3.5%) required observation or additional care in a hospital environment.

The assistance of the health teams distributed throughout the different WYD events included several physiotherapists, who reported various types of interventions, with a greater incidence in occurrences related to musculoskeletal situations, such as sprains.

WYD also saw the presence of physiotherapists registered in the parishes hosting the pilgrims, who also provided support in this context.

The physiotherapists registered as health volunteers for WYD responded to the survey. challenge launched by the Order, thus joining several others who were already registered as central or parish volunteers.

The Order welcomes the participation and the professionalism demonstrated by the physiotherapists who participated in WYD 2023, contributing to raise the importance of Physiotherapy in reinforcing response teams in large-scale events, as well as in disaster situations and/or humanitarian crises.
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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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