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Meeting of the Portuguese Order of Physiotherapists with the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists

Encontro da Ordem dos Fisioterapeutas com a Associação Portuguesa de Fisioterapeutas

The Board of the Order of Physiotherapists (OF) met with the new National Directive Council of the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists (APFISIO).

The meeting, which took place on 10 May, was attended by the President of the Portuguese Bar Association, António Lopes, Pedro Rebelo and Afonso Neutel, and the President Maria João Bigode and the Vice-President Sérgio Neto, representing the Association.

Greetings were presented to the new elected social bodies of APFISIO and the most relevant issues of the institutional relationship between the Order and the Association were analysed, under the terms of the memorandum of understanding signed in 2020, in which it was agreed to establish the progressive and necessary conditions so that, as soon as possible, the Order of Physiotherapists will have a seat, by affiliation, at the World Physiotherapy.

In this context, the Order, as the structure that regulates physiotherapy and physiotherapists in Portugal, informed that it would formalise its candidacy to the World Physiotherapy (WP), with effect from January 2023, and APFISIO naturally recognised this candidacy.

In order not to suddenly interrupt the work that has been developed by the APFISIO Interest Groups, which would automatically lose international representation in the WP, the Portuguese Physioterapists Association has guaranteed that it will ensure the endorsement of all the groups, on a transitional basis, until the Order's own representative structures are in a position to assume membership of the international organisation.   

 The model of endorsement will be opportunely analysed by the Order with each Interest Group individually and with the National Directive Council of APFisio, according to the characteristics and needs of each one.

The Ordem dos Fisioterapeutas and the Associação Portuguesa de Fisioterapeutas also agreed to hold regular meetings to clarify their respective roles in pursuing the objectives of developing physiotherapy in Portugal and increasing literacy as an important step in affirming the profession.

 

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Pedro Maciel Barbosa

Specialist physiotherapist at the Matosinhos Local Health Unit Sub-coordinator for Primary Health Care, Matosinhos Local Health Unit Visiting Assistant Professor at the Porto School of Health Member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Health - SNS Member of the General Council of the Order of Physiotherapists

Carlos Sand

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.

Eduardo José Brazete Carvalho Cruz

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

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.

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