Aspaym Madrid offers “Innovative techniques in rehabilitation home” for people with spinal cord injury.

The objective is to offer to the group the possibility of receiving maintenance comprehensive rehabilitation treatment in their homes, according to some criteria to justify the attention, not to go to the resources available at Community level to the people with spinal cord injury.

Thus, they will incorporate practices that break the standards of conventional treatments carried out so far. In addition, they will use a novel platform of remote Multimedia services with therapeutic application, focusing on the field of physical rehabilitation.

This will have a multidisciplinary team specialist in the field. People candidates they apply criteria of inclusion and exclusion in the programme, which will begin in the middle of this month and runs until May. The number of beneficiaries will be from 6 to 8 people.

Obra Social Caja Madrid launches 222 partner-assistance projects throughout the country of Spain which will benefit more than 1.076.000 people, through calls for proposals Caja Madrid Social Action 2011 program. The Caja Madrid social action calls are intended to contribute to the creation and promotion of employment, social integration, the fight against poverty, the promotion of autonomy and the attention to the unit. Since 2005, Obra Social Caja Madrid has invested through calls for aid to social projects, about 170 million Euros that have helped improve the lives of 5 million people.

Aspaym-Madrid is the entity that represents people with spinal cord injury, in defence of their rights and needs at all levels in society. Born in 1991 as a partnership with its own legal personality and territorial scope in the community of Madrid. Its objective is to achieve full social integration of persons with spinal cord injury, favoring its autonomy.