Tarina van der Stockt, PT, DPT

Tarina graduated as a Physiotherapist from the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2005 and completed her transitional Doctorate of Physical Therapy at the University of St Augustine in 2021, with a Specialisation in Education. She is the Education Director at Physioplus and is responsible for the managing of all course creation, content and team members.

Tarina also completed post-graduate training in Orthopaedic Manual Physiotherapy, Sports Physiotherapy, and Dry Needling. She has clinical experience in musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction, manual therapy, sports injuries, amputee rehabilitation, and reintegration into sport for people with disabilities. She also lectured part-time on some of these topics at various South African universities, post-graduate courses and Baylor University's DPT program.

Throughout her career, Tarina has worked as a physiotherapist for Team South Africa during large international sporting events, which includes 2 Paralympic Games and 2 Commonwealth Games. She has worked with different sporting codes including athletics, weight lifting, cycling, triathlon, swimming, and rowing. She is passionate about helping other people continue or return to doing what they love doing. She is also on the Para Rowing Classification Advisory Committee for World Rowing.

Physiopedia partners with ISPO for provision of professional development activities

May 9, 2023July 3, 2023 by Tarina van der Stockt, PT, DPT

During the closing ceremony of the 2023 ISPO Congress a song was played and one verse stood out “ISPO is multi-professional”. ISPO stands for the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics and Physiopedia recently attended the organisation’s 19th congress as both exhibitor and presenter.

The interprofessional Physiopedia team, also representing ReLAB-HS, played many different roles at the recent ISPO congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. ReLAB-HS work was presented in a symposium and platform presentations, a new collaboration with ISPO was shared and the exhibition stand provided a space to meet and greet colleagues.

ReLAB-HS activities are focused on integrating rehabilitation into health systems. There are many different facets of this work and Physiopedia’s role as part of this consortium is focused on the rehabilitation workforce. Activities have identified many opportunities for interprofessional education (IPE) to strengthen the rehabilitation workforce and the ISPO congress represented a great opportunity to share these findings. A symposium session that included video presentations from team members in Myanmar, Uganda, Ukraine and Pakistan highlighted developments, opportunities and benefits for interprofessional rehabilitation education. Formative work that identified interprofessional rehabilitation education opportunities through a comparative review of competencies and standards was shared as a platform presentation. With IPE being such a hot topic of the congress, these sessions were well received.

It always helps to have a base in the exhibition hall to easily meet with colleagues, this congress was no different. Our interprofessional team were very pleased to welcome and interact with visitors from all over the world, from many different professions, including orthotics and prosthetics (P&O), occupational therapy (OT), physiotherapy (PT), physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), physicians, and multiple sectors such as clinicians, educators and organisation leadership. The collaborative spirit of the congress meant that many congress attendees stopped by the Physiopedia stand multiple times to share how they use Physiopedia, update the team about their congress experiences, and to talk about different options for partnership.

Physiopedia and ISPO will take IPE further by partnering in the provision of professional development opportunities. All ISPO members will have a 30% discount for an annual Physiopedia Plus membership and Plus members will also receive a discount to access the courses on ISPO learn (coming soon!).

Physiopedia would like to extend special thanks to the outgoing ISPO President, Claude Tardif for driving the education partnership and applaud the incoming president David Constantine for his vision for connecting professions and encouraging collaboration. We look forward to advancing interprofessional collaborations to drive the integration of all rehabilitation professions into health systems around the world.

This work is supported by the USAID funded Learning Acting Building for Rehabilitation in Health Systems (ReLAB-HS) project and is not possible without the generous and committed contribution of the Leahy War Victims fund.

ReLAB-HS is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and is implemented under cooperative agreement number 7200AA20CA00033. The consortium is managed by prime recipient, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Tarina van der Stockt, PT, DPT

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