This week saw the start of an initiative by World Physiotherapy (WP), in collaboration with the Order of Physiotherapists, with the aim of supporting the development of the physiotherapy profession in the Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP): Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe.
This Sunday, 4 February, is World Cancer Day, a date established in 2000 by the International Union for Cancer Control to raise awareness of the disease, improve education and promote personal and collective action in the fight against cancer.
The request for membership that the Order of Physiotherapists submitted to the National Council of Professional Orders (CNOP) in March 2023 was accepted by the General Assembly of that Council.
As part of the organisational reform of the National Health Service (SNS), namely the expansion of the Local Health Units (ULS), the Order of Physiotherapists organised a working meeting with physiotherapists who are coordinators in SNS institutions on 22 January.
The Order of Physiotherapists is recruiting for a post of Advisor for the Office of Studies and Planning.
The Portuguese Order of Physiotherapists and the National School of Public Health at NOVA University Lisbon (ENSP NOVA) have signed a cooperation protocol with a view to jointly developing research projects and other actions of recognised benefit and interest to both institutions.
The Order of Physiotherapists, represented by Board Member Afonso Neutel, took part on Wednesday in a class for first-year physiotherapy students at the Jean Piaget Higher School of Health in Vila Nova de Gaia.
The Order of Physiotherapists informs that on the days granted as time off - 26 December 2023 and 2 January 2024 - the administrative services and member services will be operating normally, according to the timetable that can be consulted at Contacts - Order of Physiotherapists.
The amendment to the Statute of the Order of Physiotherapists, promulgated by the President of the Republic on 1 December, was published today in the Official Gazette.
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.