The Practice Management Survey 2023
It’s that time again, we are opening up our 2023 Practice Management Survey, in preparations for our regular end of year report. This survey will focus on our strengths and… The post The Practice Management Survey 2023 appeared first on…
Yara Peterko elected as Vice President of the Council of Occupational Therapists in European Countries
During their 11th General Assembly last week in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the Council of Occupational Therapists in European Countries (COTEC) voted on members of their committee, electing Physiopedia’s Yara Peterko as the new Vice President. As the European organisation for occupational…
Everything is BIGGER in Texas, including an appreciation for Physiopedia!
Two of our Physiopedia team members were able to attend the annual Texas Physical Therapy Association (TPTA) Conference in October, and what a trip it turned out to be! It was a privilege to meet and chat to so many…
Interview with a Russian physiotherapist, soldier, spy and double agent
My name is Olga Capatina. I was born in Moldova, in the North, on the banks of the Dniestr in 1955. My parents were also Moldavian. In fact, they were Romanians before WWII, but after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Moldova became…
The Glass Room
Physiotherapy gymnasiums are rarely located within architectural splendour but for a short period in communist Czechoslovakia, a hospital physiotherapy department was located in one of the great buildings of European modernism. UNESCO World Heritage Listed Villa Tugendhat was built in…
Physiotherapy is Handling: Then and Now
The seminal paper “Physiotherapy is Handling” was presented by Joyce Williams at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) Founders’ Lecture at the CSP Annual Congress in 1985 and was reproduced in the Physiotherapy Journal in February 1986 (Vol.72, no.2). Joyce’s…
Physical Therapy’s Oscar Winning Film
On the 75th anniversary of its production we look back at the profession’s 1949 Oscar winning film. ‘Toward Independence’ is a 1948 American short documentary film about the rehabilitation of military veterans with spinal cord injuries. In 1949, it won…
A Micro History of Physiotherapy in Italy
If we accept the etymology of physiotherapy as phìsis (natural) therapy, one of the oldest practice might seen in be the use of vapour grottoes in the territory of Sciacca (South of Italy) since the 5th century A.D. In Roman…