Institut de Neurorehabilitació Guttmann (FPING)

The Fundació Privada Institut de Neurorehabilitació Guttmann is a private, community beneficial, non-denominational, non-profit organization ascribed to the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The mission of FPING is to provide the most comprehensive, customized and specialized medical and rehabilitation care at the highest human, scientific and technical level.

Its modern facilities, a team of nearly 400 practitioners and a record of more than 13,000 patients treated make the Institut Guttmann one of the most advanced, world-class hospitals of its kind. It furthermore runs its own University Research Institute, which develops education programs, scientific and research aspects in the area of neuroscience in general, and neurorehabilitation and technologies applied to personal independence in particular. Through this combination of Hospital/Centre of Excellence and Research/Centre of Knowledge, is in the exceptional position of continuous improvement in study, practice and feedback: it provides a significant case body to maintain and develop the employee’s expertise, guarantee security, quality and efficiency of care and, furthermore grounds on a systematic use of an accurate and ethical work model.

Main research areas of FPING are: Bioengineering applied to functional rehabilitation, Information and Communication Technologies applied to cognitive rehabilitation, Cell Therapy applied to Spinal Cord Injury and ABI, Neuromodulation and Noninvasive Stimulation, Digestive Neurophysiology and Data analysis applied to knowledge generation.

FPING has participated in several collaborative R&D projects in the framework of regional, national programs with relevance to BrainAble: Tools development to evaluate outcome of technologies applied to rehabilitation process in severe disabled persons from neurological origin (2006-2007), Development of a intensive gait rehabilitation program assisted by electro mechanic systems in children with spinal cord injury and brain damage. (2005-2006), PREVIRNEC - Development of a cognitive telerehabilitation platform for patients with acquired brain damage (2005-2007), Telemedicine Platform for cognitive telerehabilitation (2007-2008), NEUROLEARNING (2008-2011), NEUROREHABILITATION_3E+D (2008-2010).

Additionally FPING is partner in several European and International projects, such as: EuroPaNet - Microinfomatics applied to neuropsychological rehabilitation in children with TBI (2002-2004), Clinical Leading Environment for the Assessment and validation of Rehabilitation (CLEAR) Protocols in home care (2008-2010), European Multicenter Study of Human Spinal Cord Injury (EM-SCI) (2006-2008), Home Care Activity Desk (H-CAD) for upper limb rehabilitation; (2003-2005), -HEalLthcare Service Linking TelerehabilitatiOn to Disable peOple and Clinicians (HELLODOC)(2005-2007).

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Josep Mª Tormos Muñoz

Institut Guttmann website