Prescribing Rights in Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy
Recent developments in the extended scope of the physiotherapist and physical therapist are moving towards prescribing rights for our profession. Following a lengthy campaigning by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) in July 2012 in a ground-breaking change to their role Physiotherapists in the UK were given new responsibilities to independently prescribe medicines to their patients. The Australian [...]
Physiotherapy Podcasts
Podcasts are audio files that are published on the internet on a regular basis so that users can subscribe to them. They are digital files that can be downloaded and listened to using portable devices or on your desktop. Free software makes it easy to subscribe to podcasts using RSS feeds for playback on portable [...]
Missing in Action: Evidence
There is a systematic flaw in evidence based practice – there is a bias in research towards positive results which is misleading. Physiotherapists should be aware of this systematic flaw in evidence based practice which has been highlighted in a systematic review of studies concerning publication bias. This review found that: publication bias effects every [...]
Physiotherapy Named as Key Component in Maintaining the Health Dementia Patients
Physiotherapy services are named as a key component in maintaining the health and wellbeing of dementia patients in the first of a new pair of quality standards from the newly re-named National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The new title for NICE reflects the organisation’s extended remit to produce guidance and standards for the [...]
Congratulations to New Maitland Concept Instructors
Congratulations to Michi Neubauer, Mathew Newton, Philip Ritt and Stefan Schiller who have qualified as tutors from the Switzerland-based International Maitland Teachers’ Association (IMTA). The seven-year postgraduate course offered by the IMTA is based on a concept by Australian physiotherapist Geoffrey Maitland developed in the 1950s. It is a form of physiotherapy carried out by specially [...]
CPA Makes IFOMPT 2012 Audio Recordings Openly Available
The Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA) have made audio recordings from the recent International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) conference freely available for you to access online. The World Congress of Manual and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy took place in October last year in Quebec, Canada. This conference occurs only once every four years and this year is the largest international gathering [...]
News from the WCPT
Talk about the next WCPT Congress in Singapore 2015 has begun! You can help shape the next congress program by completing the survey. What topics you would like to see addressed at WCPT Congress 2015. This is your opportunity to have your say – go to www.surveymonkey.com/s/WCPT2015_indiv. Act quickly as the survey closes on 28th February. [...]
More on Non-Communicable Diseases
The Lancet has just published its latest series on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This latest Series on NCDs builds on previous Lancet Series (2010, 2007, 2005), and on a landmark high-level United Nations NCD meeting convened in September 2011. The aim of the new Series is to set out clear plans for countrywide implementation of NCD [...]
InTouch Health Launches ControlStation Telemedicine App for iPad
InTouch Health, the leader in acute care telemedicine, today announced the launch of the ControlStation® (CS) App for iPad, making it easier than ever for doctors to provide real-time, acute telemedicine consults with patients. From a single intuitive interface, doctors can now connect from iPads and iPad Minis to provide patient care through any of the Company’s FDA-cleared, [...]
Method Developed for Early Identification of Stress Fractures
Stress fractures of bones can be difficult to detect using traditional X-rays and many go unidentified until they worsen through continued activity. Early detection can lead to preventative rehab, so radiologists at the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital in Missouri have developed a better, though more expensive, way of finding small fractures. They combined [...]
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