The 5 best Spanish rehabilitation physicians chosen by their peers

Every week, ABC Salud offers a weekly ranking of the best medical professionals, chosen by their peers, according to the Healthcare Reputation Monitor (MRS) compiled by Merco, to which this newspaper has had exclusive access.

In the first installment of this series, we met the 10 best Spanish cardiologists, as chosen by other heart specialists. Then came the top 10 best Digestive System specialists , as judged by other gastroenterologists; the 10 best dermatologists , the 10 best oncologists , the 10 best neurologists , the 10 best hematologists , the 10 best endocrinologists , the 10 best pulmonologists , the 10 best urologists , the 10 best nephrologists , the 10 best ophthalmologists , the 10 best ENT doctors , the 10 best anesthesiologists , the 10 best traumatologists , the 10 best pediatricians , the 10 best allergists , the 10 best rheumatologists , the 10 best intensivists , the 10 best internists , the 10 best psychiatrists . and the 5 best oral and maxillofacial surgeons . Now it's the turn of the most valued specialists in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation .

The MRS has been evaluating the reputation of key players in the Spanish healthcare system ( best public and private hospitals , services, pharmaceutical companies, etc.) for over 10 years. This time, it completes the report with the second edition of its ranking of the best doctors .

Within the same MRS questionnaire, the specialists themselves (6,060 doctors) and more than 100 pharmaceutical company managers, are the ones who choose their colleagues who, in their opinion, are the best healthcare professionals in 32 medical specialties .

The monitoring and verification of its development process and results are subject to independent review by KPMG, in accordance with the ISAE 3000 standard, which publishes its opinion for each edition. All weighting criteria are public. Due to its ethical values ​​and methodology, it is the benchmark ranking for physicians and scientific societies.

Rehabilitation physicians are specialists who specialize in the diagnosis, evaluation, prevention, and treatment of disabilities with the goal of facilitating, maintaining, or restoring the patient's greatest possible degree of functional capacity and independence. It is a specialty with a multimodal approach, encompassing a wide range of treatment tools—pharmaceuticals, exercises, physical therapies, interventions, etc.—and a transversal role.

This is the top 5 of the most valued by their specialty colleagues:

1.-Jacobo Formigo. University Hospital Complex of A Coruña.

He is Head of the Interventional Rehabilitation Unit at the A Coruña University Hospital Complex, Coordinator of the Rehabilitation Research Group at the Biomedical Research Institute of A Coruña (INIBIC), Vice President of the Galician Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (SOGARMEF), Coordinator of the Osteoarthritis Working Group (ArtroReha) at SERMEF (Spanish Society of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine), Professor at the SERMEF School of Ultrasound (ECOSERMEF), Coordinator of the ECOSERMEF Advanced Training Module. Neurography and Radiofrequency: Nerve Blocks and Radiofrequency for Pain and Spasticity; and Professor of the Master's Degree in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Ultrasound-Guided Interventionism at the San Pablo Andalucía CEU Foundation Postgraduate Institute.

2.-Helena Bascuñana Ambrós. Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul.

Director of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service and head of the Dysphagia Unit at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona, ​​president of the Spanish Society of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, and associate professor of the Master's Degree in Communication and Language Disorders at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

3.-Carlos Cordero. Juan Ramón Jiménez University Hospital.

Head of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service at the Juan Ramón Jiménez University Hospital (Huelva), Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Huelva, Director of the Master's Degree in Neurorehabilitation at the San Pablo Andalucía CEU Foundation, Editorial Board Member and Statistical Advisor of the European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and member of the musculoskeletal diseases working group of the "Rehabilitation 2030" program of the World Health Organization.

4.-Maria Olga Arroyo Riaño. Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital.

Head of the Rehabilitation Service at the Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital, specialist in Pediatric Rehabilitation at Clínica Aquiles, president of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Rehabilitation, associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid, and member of the editorial board of the journal of the Spanish Rehabilitation Society.

5.-Juan Andrés Conejero Casares. Virgen Macarena University Hospital.

Head of the Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service of the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville, associate professor of Rehabilitation at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Seville, member of the permanent scientific committee and Past President (2014-2016) of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Rehabilitation.