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Meet your 2016-2017 Leadership Executive! Joe Putos
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Chair-elect   Emma Plater Newsletter Editor   Kinjal Parikh Assistant Newsletter Editor   Megan Hudson Treasurer   Sunny Ma Secretary
  Swapnil Rege Resource Rep, Strategic Planning   Vacant
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significant value-added benefits to members. Acupuncture Animal Rehab Cardiorespiratory Global Health Leadership Neurosciences Oncology Orthopaedic Paediatric Pain Science Private Practice ...

If you don’t use Twitter, CPA’s Senior Practice Manager Chantal Lauzon empathizes with you. She had “no interest” in being a part of a social media platform where celebrity updates and a seemingly infinite stream of information is the norm. But in early February, she changed her mind. I sat down ...

On November 4th, 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked why having a gender balanced cabinet was so important. His response was simple – “Because it is 2015”. (1) This succinct answer made me pause to reflect on my own career as a physiotherapist. Could I provide such a pointed answer if s...

When I first began my physiotherapy (PT) career, I worked in a clinical area with a wonderful physiotherapist assistant (PTA).  We hadn’t learned much about this role in school and I wasn’t quite sure what I could assign to this person. Wasn’t I supposed to be able to do all of this stuff myself?...

Book Review The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman & Jason Hwang Leadership Checklist A checklist developed by the Leadership Division for leadership using Emotional Intelligence, Appreciative Inquiry and Transformatio...

I recently reviewed some interesting passages from a book where the main purpose was simple, menacing, and genius, all wrapped into a bound set of 592 pages. This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress, edited by John Brockman, is a collection of essays where the authors ha...

Check out this fascinating series of posts about technology from APTA’s May 2016 PTinMOTIONmag.org (© 2016 American Physical Therapy Association. All rights reserved). COULD ‘BIORESORBABLE’ SENSORS HELP INDIVIDUALS RECOVER FROM BRAIN INJURY, SURGERY? They melt in your brain, not in your hand.   S...

What’s your physio story? I grew up in South Africa. When I was 11, I started my own lawn cutting business. One of my five clients was a physiotherapist who treated all of the top rugby players and athletes in the country. I remember thinking, “That’s not really a job, she’s just lucky to do that...

*/ Jaime Angus, BMR (PT) & Lisa Mills-Hutton, B.Comm(Hons), BMR (PT) Physiotherapists at Donna Sarna Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation in Winnipeg, Manitoba   “One day, you’re a high school English teacher, and then you get laryngitis and lose your voice for two weeks. The laryngitis is go...