The Board of the Order of Physiotherapists met on 27th January with the President of the Consejo General de Colegios de Fisioterapeutas de España, D. Gustavo Paseiro Ares.
The OF's Management met today with the Management of the Physiotherapists Union, in the person of the physiotherapist João Paulo Valente.
The Portuguese Physioterapists Order met yesterday with Dr Miguel Pavão, President of the Portuguese Dental Association.
There are few research studies on violence specifically related to physiotherapists both in Portugal and abroad
The President of the Portuguese Order of Physiotherapists, António Lopes, was present in the ceremony of inauguration of the national, regional and direction bodies of the speciality colleges of the Order of Technical Engineers, on the 13th of January.
The meeting of the General Council of the Order of Physiotherapists took place on 21st December 2021 where, under the terms of Article 25 of the Statutes of the Order, the Board of Directors nominated by the President of the Order, Prof. António Manuel Fernandes Lopes, was assessed and ratified.
Due to the delay in sending the cédula and the identification stickers, the Order of Physiotherapists is reporting the situation for the clarification of its registered members.
All physiotherapists and public in general are informed that on the 24th and 31st of December, the presencial attendance services of the Order of Physiotherapists will be closed.
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The official ceremony of the inauguration of the first Statutory Bodies of the Order of Physiotherapists took place on 14th December 2021 at the Auditório of the Ordem dos Contabilistas Certificados, in Lisbon.
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.