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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...

Diane Lee, PT, shares how her career choices have allowed her to travel the world, along with advice on how to make it happen.
  How did you move from being a physiotherapist to being a travelling physiotherapist? Dr. Andry Vleeming and the Pelvic Girdle book I authored provided the invit...

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 ...

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?...

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...

Many physios have been asked questions like: “What’s the difference between physio and occupational therapy again ?” “How is being a physio different than other health care professions, exactly?” We recently hosted a Mini-Physio School to teach non-medical professionals in our community about t...

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...

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...

*/ 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...