On the 8th September 1951, delegates representing seventeen national physiotherapy associations met in Copenhagen, Denmark to establish the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT); now World Physiotherapy. Seventy-five years later it represents more than 600,000 physiotherapists through 129 member organisations, …
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of World Physiotherapy (formerly the World Confederation for Physical Therapy – WCPT) on 8 September 2026, we’ve created a special 75-question challenge to put your knowledge of the profession to the test. Their are 5 …
On the 1st of January 1973, Jean Blair was appointed Associate Professor by the Council of the University of the Witwatersrand. She was awarded the honour, in the words of the Vice-Chancellor, “..on the grounds of her long and meritorious …
Vibration has been, and is still, used widely across physiotherapy. The speed of the vibration offers differing therapeutic benefits that can be targeted toward specific health conditions. Slow rhythmical rocking, via horseback (hippotherapy) or being sat upon a top loading …
Although it’s less than ideal, video meetings do, at least, allow us to record and disseminate get-togethers. Here’s a link (Password: 6E$+34Y0) to yesterday’s biannual IPHA whole group meeting. The 2nd half of the meeting is …
Last week we received an email from Professor Cecil Larochelle who sent us some fantastic writings on the history of French physiotherapy. See the list of references below. R. Remondière, Réhabiliter Deménÿ, Annales de Kinésithérapie, …
By Karoline Munsch and Sandra Schiller Over the years, quite a number of oral history projects have been conducted in physiotherapy, for example in the USA (https://www.apta.org/History/OralHistories/), the United Kingdom (http://sami.bl.uk) and New Zealand (https://100yearsofphysio.org.nz/oral-histories/). The …
Landry et al make a good point in their recent editorial connecting the outbreak of infectious diseases with the need for rehabilitation (Landry et al., 2020). They suggest that ‘physiotherapy can mediate the deleterious pulmonary, …
Hydrotherapy: An integral part of physical medicine. This video clip (circa 1952) available from the Wellcome library shows the benefits of therapeutic touch conveyed through a range of treatments used in rehabilitation, including exercise, massage and …
In 1921 a small group of masseurs in Cape Town banded together to form the Certified Masseurs Association, primarily to rehabilitate soldiers after World War I as well as the patients affected by the polio …
Notes on the relationship between physiotherapy and the medical profession in the early days of the National Health Service In the early days of the UK National Health Service (which came into being on 5thJuly, …
Cameron MacDonald – USA representative for IPHA, though with an accent that is very southern… The countdown to the 100 year anniversary of the professional association for physical therapist practice in the United Sites commenced …
Canadian physiotherapists are celebrating the centenary of the profession in Canada, this year: 2020! March 24, 2020 marks the precise 100th anniversary and will include: a kick-off of 100 days of giveaways for CPA members, …
This post was written by Selina Hurley, Curator of Medicine, at the Science Museum in London Now on display in Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries, this bed cycle helps tell the story of Ludwig Guttmann (1899-1980), …
