The World Health Organisation (WHO) states that regular physical activity prevents and treats non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some types of cancer. Physical activity also helps prevent hypertension and obesity and can improve mental health, quality of life and well-being.
The International Organisation of Aquatic Physiotherapists (IOAPT), the specialty group of World Physiotherapy that the Order of Physiotherapists is a member of, chose Friday 22 March as a day dedicated to Aquatic Physiotherapy, proposing that its members mark it as a way of raising awareness and informing the population about this specific area of physiotherapy intervention.
The Order of Physiotherapists, represented by President António Lopes, and the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority, represented by President Brigadier General José Duarte da Costa, signed a Cooperation Protocol this Friday, with a view to establishing forms of mutual cooperation aimed at promoting the occupational health of Portuguese firefighters, as well as the general population, in the event of a serious accident or disaster.
World Urinary Incontinence Day is being marked this Thursday, 14 March, as a way of raising awareness and informing the population about this condition, which has been identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a public health problem.
Lisbon is hosting the face-to-face meeting of the Executive Committee of the European Region of World Physiotherapy (ER-WCPT) today and tomorrow. In Portugal, where the European Region of World Physiotherapy was founded 25 years ago, its Executive Committee was hosted by the Portuguese Order of Physiotherapists.
"It is necessary to create physiotherapy services and units in the SNS". In an interview with the Correio da Manhã newspaper, which can be read here, President António Lopes highlighted the model defended by the Order of Physiotherapists, "with [...]
The Order of Physiotherapists is organising a series of webinars with the aim of raising awareness and involving physiotherapists, as healthcare professionals, in the topic of Patient Safety.
The SPLIT Programme, an innovative referral model for physiotherapy treatment for users with low back pain (LBP), has been approved to be part of the 1st phase of the Sustainable Health Pact (PaSSuS) 2030, which is being publicly signed this Wednesday.
President António Lopes has written an opinion piece in this Saturday's edition of the Público newspaper.
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.
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 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.