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The CPA’s special interest and clinical practice Divisions offer significant value-added benefits to members. Division memberships are available to CPA members for a small additional fee (free for student members). To add a Division to your membership, please contact us at 1-800-387-8679 or send ...

Meet your 2016-2017 Leadership Executive! Joe Putos
Chair   Vacant
Chair-elect   Emma Plater Newsletter Editor   Kinjal Parikh Assistant Newsletter Editor   Megan Hudson Treasurer   Sunny Ma Secretary
  Swapnil Rege Resource Rep, Strategic Planning   Vacant
Vice Chair   V...

Guides for the Leadership Division's curriculum development: Framework for Professional Development of Leadership Core Competencies Logic Model for Leadership Education Series Leadership Checklist Workshops Leadership Education Series  The Leadership Division has developed a three-part Leadersh...

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?...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...