The World Day of Physiotherapy was celebrated on 8 September.
Instituted by World Physiotherapy, since 1996, we celebrate this day and reinforce the significant role the profession plays in the health and well-being of the population.
We mark this date by giving it maximum visibility and importance in order to raise the profile and value of the profession in maintaining and/or improving mobility and functional independence.
The Order of Physiotherapists (Ordem dos Fisioterapeutas) began, on 13 May 2021 the process of registration of physiotherapists exercising their profession in Portugal, based on the regulations contained in the DRE, 2ª, E, of 23 April.
Registration for the Order of Physiotherapists, a legal condition for the exercise of the physiotherapy activity in Portugal, under the terms of Law 122/2019, of 30 September, the Statute annexed thereto and Regulation 359/2021, of 15 February, of the Order, published in DR, 2nd, E, of 23 April, is now open.
Considering that registration in the Order of Physiotherapists is a legal condition necessary for the exercise of the profession in Portugal, the Order of Physiotherapists and the Central Administration of the Health System, IP signed a memorandum of understanding, within the scope of access and regulation of the exercise of the profession of physiotherapist in Portugal.
The process of installation of the Order of Physiotherapists is composed of various highly complex phases. The epidemiological situation in Portugal caused by the SARS -CoV -2 virus and the COVID -19 disease, as well as the time required for the creation of material conditions for the effective installation and all the processes that constitute it, has caused additional difficulties to the normal development of the installation process.
The Installation Commission of the Order of Physioterapists, in the person of physiotherapist Isabel Souza Guerra and physiotherapist António Lopes, was received by his Excellency, the President of the Republic, Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
The Installation Commission of the Order of Physiotherapists has assumed the commitment of dematerialization in all its administrative processes.
In accordance with article 62, no. 1 of the Statute of the Order of Physiotherapists, annexed to Law no.
122/2019, of 30 September "The attribution of the professional title, its use and exercise of the profession of physiotherapist, in any sector of activity, individually or in a professional society, depend on registration with the Order as a full member (...)".
The Installation Commission of the Order of Physiotherapists recently met with the Order of Dentists.
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.