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Imagine how you would react when one morning, you open a letter addressed to you and it is a lawyer calling you to trial as a fact witness. The letter requires that you provide evidence about a patient that you treated two years ago. As you keep reading, it requests that you “kindly reserve these...

After 35 years in physiotherapy, Lois Pohlod shares some tips on how to work with elite athletes 
  My greatest achievement is how I’ve managed to get the most out of my career as a physiotherapist by working with active Canadians.  It is very rare that a physiotherapist can make a living ...

Feeling like it's hard to stay on top of new information in our practice? Feeling like you're the only one working in your area? Want to be more involved, but don't know where to start? Social media can help.  In the January/February issue of your magazine Physiotherapy Practice, we profiled five...

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...

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...

Tim Paquette and Maggie Bergeron
  When CPA examined options for the development of a new Professional Development Marketplace (PDM) platform, the current conditions for learning needed to be taken into consideration.
  Learning and access to knowledge in today’s world is vastly diffe...

Mary-Ann Dalzell
  Our family is very fortunate to live in a small, tight knit, lake-side community in Quebec where everyone knows one another and cares for one another. Knowing that I work in Oncology, I‘ve been approached many times by family, friends and neighbors who pass by my dock and...

Feeling like it's hard to stay on top of new information in our practice? Feel like you're the only one working in your area? Want to be more involved, but don't know where to start? Social media can help.  In the January/February issue of Physiotherapy Practice, we profiled five social media lea...

  When I was 16, I dislocated my elbow in a gymnastic accident involving the uneven bars. Shortly after, I was introduced to physiotherapy.  I was intrigued by the profession and interested in sports medicine, but didn’t really think a small town gal from Kamloops would have any hope of capturing...

In the five years of operating a physiotherapy business, I have learned that there are seven important segments to running a smooth-operating company. I like to use the metaphor of a wheel, because if any one of these segments is not well developed or properly inflated, your wheel will lurch alon...