Category: Organisation
Executive Half Year Report – December 2025
The Executive Committee met on two occasions by Zoom teleconference in the second half of 2025. The current Executive Committee membership consists of Glenn Ruscoe, Chair (Australia) Sandra Schiller (Germany) Magda Fourie (South Africa) Cameron MacDonald (USA) Wajida Perveen (Pakistan) Snjezana Schuster (Croatia) Ximena Suárez Bonilla (Mexico/Spain) Esther-Mary D’Arcy (Ireland) …
Executive Half Year Report – June 2025
The Executive Committee met on three occasions by Zoom teleconference in the first half of 2025. During this period we farewelled Ryan McGrath (Australia) and welcomed new member Ken Miller (USA). The current Executive Committee membership consists of Glenn Ruscoe, Chair (Australia) Sarah Marshall (Canada) – leave of absence Sandra …
Executive Half Year Report – December 2024
The Executive Committee met on three occasions by Zoom teleconference in the second half of 2024. The Executive Committee membership consisted of Glenn Ruscoe, Chair (Australia) Sarah Marshall (Canada) – leave of absence Sandra Schiller (Germany) Magda Fourie (South Africa) Cameron MacDonald (USA) Ryan McGrath (Australia) Wajida Perveen (Pakistan) Snjezana …
Dutch News
Thanks to the efforts of the Dutch History of Physiotherapy Foundation (Stichting Gescheidenis Fysiotherapie – SGF) all Royal Dutch Society for Physiotherapy (Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap voor Fysiotherapie) journals are now digitally accessible. Articles beginning from 1891 until the present can be read and downloaded via a new website. The treasure …
Executive Half Year Report – June 2024
The Executive Committee met on three occasions by Zoom teleconference in the first half of 2024. During this period founding member Rob Jones (United Kingdom) retired and new members Ximena Suärez Bonilla (Mexico/Spain) and Esther-Mary D’Arcy (Ireland) were welcomed. The current Executive Committee membership consists of Glenn Ruscoe, Chair (Australia) …
Fisioterapia no Brasil: Profissão assegurada por Decreto-Lei
DECRETO-LEI N.938 / 69 DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 1969 DOU nº.197 de 14/10/69 – retificado em 16-10-1969 Sec. I – Pág. 3.658 Provê sobre as profissões de fisioterapeuta e terapeuta ocupacional, e dá outras providências Os Ministros da Marinha de Guerra, do Exército e da Aeronáutica Militar, usando das …
Locating Objects from Physiotherapy History
There are different ways to learn about (physiotherapy) history as a wide variety of sources answer questions about the past. Historians differentiate between primary sources, i.e. sources that have survived from the past, and secondary sources, i.e. accounts of the past that are written at a later period of time. …
Datas Importantes Para a Fisioterapia Brasileira
1951 a 1957 – Curso Raphael de Barros – Planejado pelo Dr. Waldo Rolim de Moraes, com o objetivo de formar “técnicos em fisioterapia”, funcionou nas instalações do Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo USP. 05 de agosto de 1954 – Fundação da Associação Brasileira Beneficente de Reabilitação …
An emerging history of Physiotherapy in the United Arab Emirates
Very much in the centre of our familiar flat world map is a small country with a coastline at the north east of the Arabian Peninsula on what we call the Arabian Sea and other may know as the Persian Gulf. In fact, this area has been long fought over, …
Brasil: Os Primeiros Anos da Profissão: Parte 2 – O Caso de Pernambuco
Meio-termo no sentido aristotélico¹, não se aplica quando situamos o Estado de Pernambuco como Celeiro de Fisioterapeutas para o país; preferimos o excesso. E assim estamos em boa companhia, quando o Prof. Miguel Doherty no prefácio do livro O Trabalho Médico Científico², de Ruy Neves Baptista (Recife: Bagaço, 2003) referindo-se …