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1. FIVAN Foundation

FIVAN Foundation, classified as a non-profit entity and registered in the Registry of Foundations of the Ministry of Education and Science with the number 1.081, has the following foundational purposes:

  • The defense, support, and promotion of all those natural or legal persons, public or private, who are related to the study, treatment, research, education, and social promotion-reintegration of brain damage, including patients and their families, individually or constituted in an associative way.
  • The promotion, organization, financing, and development of research programs and projects, taking into consideration not only the care and scientific aspects, but also the social repercussions thereof.
  • The information and education of patients, families, health professionals, information media, social agents, and society in general and their scientific, health, social, professional, and family aspects.
  • Special interest will be given, in relation to this section, to carrying out activities aimed at preventing traumatic brain damage.
  • The promotion of programs and projects of all kinds that may represent an improvement in the healthcare and quality of life of patients and their families.
  • Training of Professionals/Caregivers.

Legal information

FIVAN Foundation, with CIF: G-97550016, was established on December 29, 2004, and classified by O.M. of January 14, 2005, being attached to the Protectorate of the Ministry of Education and Science and included among those regulated in article 16 of Law 49/2002.

Registered in the Registry of Foundations of the Ministry of Education and Science, according to the provisions of Law 50/2002, of December 26, on Foundations, in the Regulations of the Registry of Foundations of State Competence, approved by Royal Decree 384/1996, of March 1.

FIVAN Foundation is associated with the Spanish Association of Foundations (declared of public utility in the BOE of November 27, 2003) and belongs to the Sectorial Group of Health Foundations.

Board of Trustees

The government, representation, and administration of the Foundation is entrusted to a Board of Trustees, whose members will exercise their positions as Trustee free of charge and who are obliged to render accounts to the Protectorate.

The Board of Trustees is made up of the following people:

2. Social Action

Rio Safari Foundation. Sea Lions.

Hípica Guadassuar and Acavall.

On January 1, 2007, the IVAN Foundation launched a Hippotherapy program, aimed at children with brain damage, at Hípica Guadassuar (Valencia). This program is associated with the foundational purposes in what concerns the “promotion of programs and projects of all kinds that may represent an improvement in the healthcare and quality of life of patients and their families”, as well as the “promotion, organization, financing, and development of research programs and projects”.
  1. Solidarity Concerts
    1. June 2014
    2. April 2014.
    3. Carles Chiner & Javier Rodrigo March 2014
    4. Akasha Black Flamenco. February 2014
    5. Cocktail Jazz Band. January 2014
    6. Chantal Esteve & Manuel Hernández December 2013
    7. Cristina Blasco and her vocal party. December 2013
  2. Charity fashion show
  3. Solidarity Flea Market
  4. FIVAN’s recess
  5. “Don’t let your brain damage your life.” Photographic exhibition by Eduard Gandía by Fundación FIVAN.
  6. Photographic exhibition
  7. Pictorial exhibition by Jose María Ordeig.
Open Sea Project

3. Organization of congresses and training courses

  1. FIVAN and the Network Center in Biomedical Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, organized on March 23-24, 2007, a Scientific Conference with the most innovative lines of research in the field of neurorehabilitation.

On Saturday the 24th, a Satellite Course on gait rehabilitation with the Lokomat robot was held, taught by D. Miquel Revert i Sanz and Dr. Stefan Bircher (Hocoma, Switzerland). This Conference had the Scientific Endorsement of the Spanish Society of Neurology, was endorsed by the Spanish Society of Neurorehabilitation and declared of Scientific Health Interest by the Consellería de Sanitat of the Generalitat Valenciana.

  • Collaboration agreement with the Polytechnic University of Valencia for the creation of FIVAN Chair (July 2007) with the aim of promoting training and research in the field of neurorehabilitation. The development of its activities is carried out through the Institute of Applications of Information Technologies and Advanced Communications (ITACA), in collaboration with the Higher Technical School of Applied Computing and the Faculty of Computing.
    • Cycle of Conferences of FIVAN Chair. April 14 to May 18. (Poster)
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      • Domotics applied to dependency. Borja Romero. B&J Adaptations.
      • Almudena Ramón.
      • Application of Robotic Technology in rehabilitation therapies. Dr. Stefan Bircher, Clinical Head of Hocoma.
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      • I edition of awards from FIVAN Chair in the field of neurorehabilitation, with the aim of recognizing the best works with innovative ideas related to research in the field of diagnosis and rehabilitation of patients with brain damage (2008)
        • Juan José Lull. “Functional magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of patients with traumatic brain damage”.
        • Jaime Guixeres. “Virtual reality platform for the rehabilitation of patients with acquired brain damage”.
        • David Clemente. “Device for the integration of different interactive applications to perform cognitive neurorehabilitation exercises”.
        • Nuria Lull “Use of medical image analysis to improve the diagnosis and rehabilitation of patients with traumatic brain injuries”.
      1. Cycle of Conferences April-May 2008
      2. FIVAN Chair.
      3. Master’s Degree in Neurorehabilitation from the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville)
      4. I International Symposium on Neurorehabilitation, from basic to the future” held in Valencia from October 15 to 16, 2009 at the Príncipe Felipe Research Center.
      5. XXVII ANNUAL MEETING OF THE VALENCIAN SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGY
      6. II International Symposium on Neurorehabilitation, from basic to the future” held in Valencia from October 18 to 20, 2012 at the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia.
      7. Feldenkrais Workshop taught by Dr. Eilat Almagor.
      8. UPO Master
      9. ISEP Master

    • Training Courses

      1. I Edition of the Course/Workshop on Technology applied to Neurorehabilitation that will take place on November 30 at FIVAN
      2. II edition “Accompanying in situations of grief” that will take place on November 22 and 23, 2013.
      3. Adapted ballet for the treatment of CP taught by Citlali López-Ortiz in June 2013.
      4. I edition “Accompanying in situations of grief” that will take place in June 2013.
      5. Pelvic Floor Course taught by Lucrecia Rubio in June 2013
      6. FIVAN Foundation, the only accredited entity in Spain, provides training in the UK-FIM+FAM and creates the national network for the administration of the scale. This network includes both professionals and entities.
      7. The first edition of the course will take place in Valencia, on May 25, 2013.
      1. Technology Applied to Neuropsychological Rehabilitation taught by Dr. Chirivella and organized by Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. Lisbon. April 2013.
      2. Photographic exhibition “Don’t let your brain damage your life” at the Hospital La Fe, promoted by Fundación FIVAN. March-April 2013. EduGandia
      3. Photographic exhibition “Don’t let your brain damage your life” at the Casa de la Cultura de Xativa, promoted by Fundación FIVAN. February 2013. EduGandia
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      5. Conference on autism: Biomedical Treatments, Neurorehabilitation, Padovan Method, Hyperbaric Therapy for Autism, PDD, Hyperactivity and Attention Deficit. Organized by AVA association. October 2014.
      6. Creative Expression Workshop taught by Tonino Guitián. All of 2014.
      7. Course: Basic research and technological approaches in neurorehabilitation. European project LanPercept. June 26-27, 2014. Organized with Consellería de Sanitat in Direción General de Salud Pública.
      8. Course: Accompanying in situations of grief. Taught by Valentin Rodil. June 2014.
      9. II Edition of the Technology Applied to Neurorehabilitation course organized by Fundacion FIVAN. May 10, 2014.
      10. Cultural action: Presentation of the travel essay “Following in the footsteps of Herodotus” and the exhibitions “The beginning of a journey” and “The interpreted gaze”. With the writer Antonio Penadés and the photographer Jose Luis Iniesta. February 2016.
      11. New Techniques to guide brain plasticity. Taught by Dr. Javier Chirivella and organized by the Ballesol Costa Blanca Center on March 2, 2017.
      12. Neuroplasticity à la carte. Is everything valid? Taught by Dr. Javier Chirivella and organized by ISEP Formación. Learn from the best. September 2017.
      13. Seminar on Neuronavigation and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Neuroline. November 2017.
      14. Training day on aquatic therapy and ASD. Taught by Chantal Esteve. December 2018.
      15. Course: Cerebral Neuromodulation in Neurorehabilitation. Taught by Dr. Javier Chirivella and organized by the Murcian Society of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine and Neuroline. December 2018.
      16. Therapeutic exercise in population with Neurological Pathology in different treatment settings. Taught by Dr. Javier Güeita. January 2019.
      17. II International Sympmosium on Neurorehabilitation, from basic to the future. October 18 to 20 at the Príncipe Felipe Research Center.
      18. Workshop on the Feldenkrais Method taught by Eilat Almagor

4. I+D

  1. Torres Quevedo Project 2010. Thalamo-cortical connectivity and FDG-PET: clinical-genetic association and prognosis in acquired brain damage.

  1. Adaptation to the Spanish population of the NEPSY II battery.

  1. “Acquired Brain Damage: A Practical Guide for Families”. Official presentation of the book on March 30, 2007.

  1. UK FIM FAM

  1. Agreement between the Center for Research in Public Health (CSISP) and FIVAN for the epidemiological study of brain damage. May 31, 2010.

  1. Family Book

On March 23, 2007, during the First Scientific Conference of the Brain Damage Service of NISA Hospitals, the official presentation of the book “Acquired Brain Damage: A Practical Guide for Families” took place.

The aforementioned book, which has been published by the IVAN Foundation (2007) with the collaboration of the Brain Damage Service of NISA Hospitals, “is born as a response to the concerns, doubts and worries that appear in the environment of the patient with acquired brain damage”.

“The main objective of this guide is to inform in an easy and graphic way, of the situation in which the patient finds himself, giving him at the same time very specific guidelines for action so that he can collaborate daily in the neurorehabilitation treatment”.

Lines and research projects in which Fundación FIVAN currently participates or leads:

  1. Longitudinal and transversal study in the treatment of fibromyalgia.
  2. Treatment of spasticity and fatigue in familial spastic paraparesis
  3. Changes in cortical excitability in Duchene muscular dystrophy
  4. Evolution of the Multiple Sclerosis disease after treatment with Epigallocatechin Gallate and coconut oil. Catholic University of Valencia.
  5. Changes in the quality of the endometrium with hyperbaric medicine. CREA Clinic.
  6. Treatment of toxicity secondary to radiotherapy with a hyperbaric chamber. Hospital la Fe.

European Project

Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI)

https://www.center-tbi.eu/?fbclid=IwAR1Udb_W1uB72Ft6xK23fIAzP6JCVeYDiUMQCDnTKvLCIFZ5e4umhNZ7FeU

  1. Fundación FIVAN participates in the project entitled Lanpercept through the Marie Curie Initial Training Network belonging to the Seventh Framework Program (7PM) of the European Union with the aim of investigating the ability of humans to make correspondences between the information perceived by sight and language. The project is led by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and experts from Denmark, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom contribute.
  2. http://www.ntnu.edu/lanpercept

  1. Publications
    1. 3 posters. The Hague (Netherlands) at the XI Brain Damage Congress.
    2. X World Brain Injury Congress in San Francisco.
      FIVAN and the Hospital de la Pedrera
    3. “Acquired Brain Injury in the Valencian Community: An approach to the incidence”.
    4. https://www.neurologia.com/articulo/2011701#.T-Ak0gOEi-4.twitter