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InstituteMEFIRPhysical medicine and rehabilitation · Barcelona
Break free from pain. Get back your life.
Medicine, physiotherapy and therapeutic exercise in one team and under one roof. No. 1 in active physiotherapy, with the Pilar Domínguez Method®: a whole-person approach, scientifically validated, that treats pain at its cause. In Barcelona and from home.
50 yearsof experience and success in Barcelona
30,000+ peoplehave practised it
No. 1in active physiotherapy
The Institute
We are a benchmark in functional rehabilitation and pain treatment.
MEFIR is the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation that combines medical science with the Pilar Domínguez Method®, recognised for its effectiveness in restoring movement and wellbeing.
A personalised, whole-person approach that stays with you from prevention through to keeping your mobility and independence. We don't just treat the symptom: we look for the cause of the pain.
Our services
A clinical method for beating pain.
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Personalised functional assessment
Our specialist medical team assesses every case individually.
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Therapeutic exercise
Based on the Pilar Domínguez Method®. Postural re-education and therapeutic movement to reduce pain and improve function.
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A whole-person approach
A personalised rehabilitation and physiotherapy programme, adapted as you progress.
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Ongoing support
Medical supervision and follow-up to ensure an optimal, lasting recovery.
What makes us different
More than physiotherapy. A clinical method of our own.
What sets MEFIR apart from other physiotherapy and rehabilitation clinics is our own clinical method: the Pilar Domínguez Method®.
Half a century of clinical experience distilled into a system of postural re-education and therapeutic movement that works on the real cause of pain, not just the symptom.
A Method of our own: you learn it, you make it yours, and it stays with you for life.
- No. 1 in active physiotherapy. True pioneers.
- Beyond treating, we measure, research and publish our results.
- Doctors and physiotherapists, side by side on your case.
- Experts at making your recovery last.
Home exercise programmes
With you, wherever you live.
Treatment doesn't end when you leave the consulting room. Every patient leaves with their own home exercise programme, set by the team and reviewed at the next visit: that is what holds the improvement together between sessions.
Your programme lives on your patient platform, with each exercise step by step, what it is for, how many sets, and where you should feel it. With live check-ups by video call and follow-up of your progress, even if you live far from Barcelona.
- Exercises for home, set by the team and reviewed at each visit
- Every exercise explained step by step, with sets, reps and rest
- Live check-ups by video call
- Rigorous follow-up of your progress, with our own programme
Scientific evidenceSee all our research →
We don't just say it: we have measured and published.
Our studies have been presented at international congresses, and at every visit we record your progress with validated instruments. That is why the medical teams at Barcelona's leading hospitals refer their patients to us.
SOSORT 2019
A study of idiopathic scoliosis in children and adolescents treated with the Method, presented at the 14th International SOSORT Meeting in San Francisco.
We measure every visit
Pain intensity and physical and emotional wellbeing, on two internationally validated scales. We don't work on impressions: those records are the basis of our studies.
48 cm → 0 cm
Fingertip-to-floor distance in one student over a course, with the neck curve improving too. A case documented by our team.
Who we are
Who will look after you.
Rehabilitation physicians, physiotherapists and therapeutic-exercise specialists working in one team, under one roof.
Address
Pilar Domínguez
Founder and creator of the MethodSu trayectoria
Pilar Domínguez created the Method that revolutionised postural correction in Spain. A pioneer of therapeutic exercise at the double barre, she turned body awareness into a health discipline when no one was talking about posture.
Half a century on, the Pilar Domínguez Method® is the benchmark for active physiotherapy in Spain and holds the highest standing in medical and sporting circles. A method of our own that you learn, make yours, and keep for life.
- Creation
- The Pilar Domínguez Method®
- Pioneering contribution
- Therapeutic exercise at the double barre
- Reach
- More than 30,000 people have practised it
Ann Andrés
CEOSu trayectoria
Under her leadership, the Pilar Domínguez Method® is at its best: it is the benchmark for active physiotherapy in Spain and holds the highest standing in medical and sporting circles.
The model that defines MEFIR today is her doing: rehabilitation physicians and physiotherapists in one team sharing one clinical record; measuring, researching and publishing the results instead of settling for «you look better to me»; and taking the Method beyond the consulting room, with home programmes and the therapeutic Channel, to stay with each person wherever they live.
- Address
- The Pilar Domínguez Method® and MEFIR Institute
- Model
- Medicine, physiotherapy and therapeutic exercise in one team
- The Method at home
- Home exercise programmes and the therapeutic Channel
Clinical team · medicine and physiotherapy
Dra. Ampar Cuxart
Medical Director · Rehabilitation physicianSu trayectoria
A national and international authority in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. For years she was head of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, one of Europe's most prestigious medical centres.
President of the Societat Catalana de Medicina Física i Rehabilitació from 2005 to 2009, and honoured for a lifetime devoted to the speciality. Coordinator of the VHIR's Spina Bifida Centre and author of the SERMEF Rehabilitation Manual.
Today she leads the medical team at MEFIR Institute, bringing the clinical excellence of the public health service into private practice, with a model that combines science, humanity and Method.
- Training
- Vall d'Hebron · Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Leadership
- Former head of the Rehabilitation Department · Vall d'Hebron
- Recognition
- Former president of the SCMFiR · 2005–2009
Thais
Head of physiotherapy
Maria
Physiotherapist
Zsofi
Physiotherapist
Albert
Physiotherapist
Method technical team
Helga
Technical director of the Method
Laura
Method technician
Santi
Method technician
Expert committee
Dra. Elena Carreras
Gynaecology and ObstetricsFormer head of department at Vall d'Hebron Hospital.Su trayectoria
Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital until her retirement, and principal investigator of the VHIR's Maternal–Fetal Medicine group, which she led for almost three decades.
A pioneer in fetal surgery: she took obstetric ultrasound all the way to the prenatal repair of spina bifida, and in maternal medicine she worked on preventing premature birth with the cervical pessary. Over fifty papers in international journals and ultrasound and maternal–fetal medicine courses led since 1991, with a standing collaboration with Texas Children's Hospital and Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
President of the Societat Catalana d'Obstetrícia i Ginecologia and associate professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In 2015 Forbes named her Spain's best gynaecologist.
- Hospital
- Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Vall d'Hebron
- Research
- Maternal–Fetal Medicine · VHIR
- Society
- President of the Societat Catalana d'Obstetrícia i Ginecologia
- Recognition
- Best gynaecologist in Spain · Forbes, 2015
Dra. Carme Carré
PhD, Clinical Research MethodsIn memoriam.Su trayectoria
A doctor with a PhD and a master's in clinical research methods, with over twenty years devoted to clinical research, statistics and medical affairs, and years as a medical director in the pharmaceutical industry.
The way the Method measures is hers: she designed and led the institute's data-collection system, the one that turns every visit into a comparable record and makes it possible to study whether a treatment really works. She brought to a clinic the rigour with which a medicine is researched.
With Dr J. C. Rodríguez Olaverri she co-authored the preliminary study on treating idiopathic scoliosis in children and adolescents with the Pilar Domínguez Method®, accepted and presented at the 14th International SOSORT Meeting in San Francisco in 2019.
She left us rigour as the rule of the house: measure before you claim. Everything we can prove today starts from the system she built.
- Training
- MD · PhD · MSc in clinical research methods · MBA
- Career
- Over 20 years in clinical research and medical affairs · Medical Director in the pharmaceutical industry
- Her legacy
- Designed and led our measurement and record-keeping system
- Publication
- Scoliosis poster · 14th International SOSORT Meeting, San Francisco 2019
A patient
She arrived with a walking frame. Today she walks.
«I'd rather work on my body so that my body doesn't give in to the pain.»
Rosario · osteoarthritis and lumbar canal stenosis. She has practised the Method for years.
«When MEFIR opened I thought about it… being looked after so I can live a normal life, avoiding an operation, because they want to put six screws and cement in me and I'll be left stiff.»
Want to see more stories that stay with you? →An individual case. It does not represent the result you should expect. Subtitles in Catalan, French and English.
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What our patients say
Results you can feel.
The line we hear most: «Someone recommended you!». Half a century transforming the health of thousands of people in Barcelona.
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Para mí es uno de los descubrimientos más grandes tanto a nivel Personal como profesional relacionados con la salud
Está siendo una experiencia increíble. El método me ha devuelto fortaleza y gracia. Camino erguida, segura sobre mis pies, he recuperado agilidad, elasticidad, mi cuerpo está tonificado, siento un gran bienestar. Sus profesores me acompañan en cada movimiento. El centro impecable y muy confortable.
Si cuando seas mayor quieres poder atarte los cordones de los zapatos, ven a Pilar Domínguez. Después de una clase sientes que has vuelto a nacer: más ágil, flexible, despierto, con energía vital y abierto a ser más productivo y creativo. Estás en paz contigo mismo y con el mundo.
El método Pilar Domínguez es para mí imprescindible para encontrarme mejor. Lo recomiendo a todo el mundo, con constancia tiene efectividad comprobada. Soy más flexible y me ayuda a combatir la artrosis. No me medico, me estiro.
Es muy serio y efectivo. El profesor es excelente, elegante y empático. El método reactiva la base anatómica de la postura corporal por lo que los problemas mecánicos consecuentes de anómalas posiciones van menguando. Mejora la calidad de vida tanto por su reestructuración física como mental.
Creo que es un método muy completo. Aproximadamente hace 10 años que soy clienta. La asistencia continuada repercute en el tono muscular y mejora la movilidad. Actualmente con Thais, en el Centro MEFIR. Una gran técnica y un trato personal positivo y cariñoso.
Eficacia profesional máxima. El método Pilar Domínguez con la dedicación profesional y muy cordial de la fisioterapeuta Thaïs en el espacio de la Clínica MEFIR habilitada para ello, con grupos más pequeños. Llevo unos 20 años o más como alumna y lo he recomendado a personas que están agradecidas por el logro de resultados.
Muy contenta de haber encontrado un espacio de trabajo corporal «consciente» que te permite trabajar desde la técnica de la colocación, la postura y musculatura de forma óptima. El profesorado está muy preparado, además de conocer y llamar a cada uno de los alumnos por su nombre.
Clases de gimnasia y estiramientos muy provechosos. La profesora sabe explicar muy bien los movimientos y ella misma los hace todos los días insistiendo con qué hacer y qué no. Y lo mejor es que nos corrige de forma individual. ¡Un 10!
Gym específica para espaldas y estiramientos de todo el cuerpo. Súper recomendable. A mí me cambió por completo mi cuerpo. Thais, la profesora, es súper profesional.
Tanto los ejercicios para la mejora muscular como las sesiones individuales de masajes de fisioterapia me han llevado a un nivel de movilidad y bienestar que había perdido con los años.
El método aporta flexibilidad, armonía, belleza y salud. Es ideal para conseguir tener equilibrio. Es fantástico. El mejor dinero invertido. Trato correcto. Instalaciones impecables. Horarios que son un lujo.
Un método extraordinario que nos permite mantener el cuerpo sano evitando los dolores derivados especialmente de malas posturas.
Es un gustazo estirar en la barra, las profesoras súper pendientes y encantadoras al igual que las administrativas. 100×100 recomendado para espalda y cuello.
Para mantener una buena posición corporal y evitar dolores de espalda, imprescindible. Monitoras grandes profesionales.
Indispensable para mi bienestar. ¡El método es una maravilla!
Ejercicio de calidad. Excelencia en el trato. Gestionado por profesionales de la salud.
They have trusted our method
Institutions, hospitals, universities and clubs that work with us.
50 years of experience
Who is MEFIR?
Relief, recovery and movement for a life without pain.
People facing major surgery (prehabilitation) or recovering from an operation.
People with musculoskeletal injuries who want to get their function back.
People with chronic pain looking for an effective, lasting solution.
Anyone who wants to improve their quality of life and prevent future injuries.
Get your movement back and beat the pain. Movement is medicine, and personalised medicine changes lives.
Pilar Domínguez Method®
Visit usWhatsApp
In the heart of Barcelona.
A few steps from Turó Parc, in the Sant Gervasi district. Well served by FGC trains and buses.
Dirección
Carrer Madrazo 33, 1º-1º
08006 Barcelona
Teléfono
Cómo llegar
Shall we talk about your case?
Your body is talking. It's time to listen.
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