On the question of physiotherapy, the report concluded that in spite of the efforts made by Brodsgaard and some hospital managers, the training of these professionals was clearly inadequate as a result of a series of reasons such as the excessive number of schools in Madrid and Barcelona, many of which were described as “mediocre.” Theory was outdated; the official syllabus was incompatible with new research and technology; the prerequisite that trainee physiotherapists should first complete the ATS course was considered useless by Pierquin; there was a lack of a sufficient number of good teachers who had themselves been trained abroad in the more advanced techniques and few foreign physiotherapists had been persuaded to participate in the Spanish schools.
En la cuestión de la fisioterapia se indicaba que, pese a los esfuerzos llevados a cabo por Brodsgaard y por algunos directores de servicios hospitalarios, la formación de estos profesionales era claramente insuficiente debido a una serie de causas como el número excesivo de escuelas en Madrid y Barcelona, muchas de ellas calificadas como “mediocres”; un contenido teórico que no estaba al día; un programa oficial que no era acorde con los nuevos conocimientos y tecnologías; la necesidad – que Pierquin consideraba inútil – de que los aspirantes a fisioterapeutas cursaran, antes de especializarse, una carrera de ATS; la ausencia de suficientes profesores de buen nivel que hubieran aprendido en el extranjero las técnicas más avanzadas y la escasa participación de fisioterapeutas extranjeros en las escuelas españolas.