Next Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation

28^th – 31^st August, 2025, in Budapest, Hungary, Danubius Hotel Helia

In representing the International Scientific Committee Membership, we have the distinct pleasure of inviting you to the 18^th Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation, scheduled in Budapest, Hungary, 28^th – 31^st August, 2025. The EFRR Congress intends to share the most contemporary clinical and basic research advances in the fields of Rehabilitation with concurrent sessions combining invited discussions, oral and abstract presentations, a great debate and fishbowl sessions. The meeting consisted of keynote lectures, educational workshops, interactive sessions, poster-oral presentations and meet-the-expert sessions of interest for both students and trainees as well as clinicians and scientists.

The Main topics include

• International collaboration in rehabilitation medicine and rehabilitation research
• Implementing digital methods in rehabilitation
• Robotic therapies and application of innovative technologies
• Advances in assessment and rehabilitation of cognitive disorders after acquired brain injury
• Speech and music therapies for individuals with aphasia
• Current evidence on management of spasticity
• Evidence of effectiveness of multi-disciplinary rehabilitation team
• Rehabilitation after disasters
• Return to work
• Lifelong rehabilitating approach regarding long term care facilities
• Rehabilitation of patients afflicted with cardiac, vascular, pulmonary, immunologic, oncologic and /or renal diseases
• Rehabilitation of patients with musculoskeletal disorders
• Pediatric rehabilitation

The Workshop topics include

• Advances in diagnosis and rehabilitation of dysphagia
• Non-pharmacological and pharmacological management of pain in rehabilitation
• Experiences with robots in daily clinical practice
• Rehabilitation interventions for patients with COPD and pulmonary fibrosis
• Botulinum toxin treatment for patients with spastic hemiplegia
• Functional electrical stimulation for patients with spastic paraplegia
• Rehabilitation patients with obesity, cardiac rehabilitation
• How to review an article
• Statistical analysis of longitudinal data
• Statistical process control and its application in rehabilitation
• Effectiveness of approach to pediatric spine deformities: diagnosis, bracing and exercises
• Treatment and rehabilitation of patients with osteoporosis following bone fractures

Timeline

• Abstract submission open: 1^st Dec, 2024
• Abstract submission deadline: 15^th March, 2025
• End of reviewing and notification to authors: 30^th April
• Preliminary programme: 31^st May
• Early Bird registration: 15^th June
• Congress: 28^th – 31^st August

The 18^th EFRR Meeting will also be a unique opportunity to meet dear friends and to make new ones. Join us in Budapest and have a great time!

A European Congress organised by the EFRR is held regularly in a European country. The date and place of the Congress are to be determined by the Council. Other Scientific Meetings are to be held at the discretion of the Council and may be arranged in conjunction with other organisations.