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CPA’s Board of Directors is the governing body of the Association. It is the Board’s job to ensure that CPA fulfills its mission to advance the profession of physiotherapy in order to improve the health of Canadians. As a CPA member, you choose who serves on the Board, so it is helpful to know wh...

Pierre-Yves Lauzon, P.R.T.    I would like to take this opportunity today to talk about my profession, which is still largely unknown to the general public and the medical world. Who we are Physical rehabilitation therapists are Quebec health professionals who work in physiotherapy.1 This means t...

It was so great to see how you creatively celebrated national physiotherapy month (#physiocanNPM). The goal of this month is to promote your profession and you did not disappoint. We noticed some themes. You focused on: Holding events Teaching us something Showing your team love Just having fun ...

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...

Recently, a commentary by Dr. Louis Francescutti was posted on the Canadian Medical Association’s (CMA) website.  In it, he suggested there is a lack of accountability in the health system, and physicians need to take some responsibility to fix the problem.  He proposed one potential solution: ma...

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?...

  This post features two authors who shed more light on being a physiotherapist assistant (PTA). Aurelie writes about how she decided to pursue being a PTA, and Amy explains what it actually means to be one. Part I – The Backstory: How I Became a PTA Aurelie Dimandja, PTA I remember the summer b...

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...

*/ 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...