The President of the Portuguese Bar Association, António Lopes, recorded a message addressed to citizens and physiotherapists to explain what is at stake with the Government's bill, which "creates inequalities and creates a setback in the health security of users who resort to physiotherapy care".
Physiotherapists can reinforce the World Youth Day 2023 Health Team (WYD23), whose mission is to provide proximity health care to all registered pilgrims, volunteers and participants in the various events, in conjunction with the NHS entities (Primary Health Care, INEM and Hospitals).
Today marks the World Blood Donor Day, celebrated annually on 14 June, under the aegis of the World Health Organization.
Portugal was represented at the World Physiotherapy Congress, which took place between 2 and 4 June in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Throughout the month of May, the Order of Physiotherapists promoted clarification sessions aimed at students who will finish their degree in 2023.
On this National Day of the Fight against Obesity, which is celebrated today, May 20, the Order of Physiotherapists calls for an increase in the intervention of physiotherapists in weight management programmes and in the availability of these programmes to the population in general.
This Wednesday, 17 May, marks World Hypertension Day, a date that aims to disseminate the importance of prevention, detection and treatment of hypertension.
The Ordem dos Fisioterapeutas is recruiting for a position in the Graphic Designer category.
Today, 21 April, is National Respiratory Rehabilitation Day. The date was implemented in 2016, on the initiative of the Portuguese Lung Foundation and signed by 12 other entities (medical societies and associations of health professionals and respiratory patients).
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.