Category: Organisation
Executive Half Year Report – June 2026
The Executive Committee met on three occasions by Zoom teleconference in the first half of 2026. The current Executive Committee membership consists of Glenn Ruscoe, Chair (Australia) Sandra Schiller (Germany) Magda Fourie (South Africa) Cameron …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …

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 …
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 …
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 …
