Issue 3: Thursday 23rd June 2011

20-23 June 2011 Amsterdam

WCPT
Congress
News

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A symposium
in blue
Peoples perceptions affect the
level of pain they feel and PTs
can play a role in that, delegates
heard on Wednesday.
The pain symposium, held in
the spectacular Elisium room
(pictured right) was packed with
delegates wanting to hear from
three leading pain experts.
David Butler from Australia
said: Its doesnt mean just
cognitive behavioural therapy. Its
much bigger than that. He
advocated a biopsychosocial
approach, which recognised
psychological factors affecting
pain, rather than a biomedical one
where the approach was to find a
problem, then to fix it.

Aid must be sustainable

David Charles, one of the few

physical therapists in Haiti before
the earthquake in 2010

The best way that physical

therapists can deal with natural
disasters is to look beyond the
disaster, according to a Canadian
physical therapist who has worked
building health facilities in Haiti
before and after the earthquake
that struck on 2010.
Shaun Cleaver, who
coordinated rehabilitation services
development at the Hpital Albert
Schweitzer (HAS) in Haiti, said
that though disasters themselves

presented development
opportunities, they were not the
only or the best time for progress.
He was speaking at the discussion
session on how physical therapy
projects can bring long-term
sustainable benefits in conflict
zones and disaster areas.
The real challenge is to build
strong systems everywhere, he
said. He pointed out that the
earthquake left 100-200 people
with spinal injuries, which gained

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flown in. Yet before and after the
earthquake, 300 people a year
had spinal injuries. And despite
the disaster relief, today, many
have to be turned away from
clinics because of lack of facilities.
If I had a spinal injury, Id rather
have it in on 12th January 2010
than January 1st 2009, he said.
There was a danger that once
the eyes of the world turned away
(Continued on page 2)

Inside this issue

5 How WCPT all began
6 A picture memento
9 Focus turns to
education issues
10 Todays ICF sessions

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PTs in oncology
get networking
Some physical therapists are now
seeing cancer patients before
treatment, providing psychosocial
support, information about what to
expect and reassurance about
how side effects can be treated.
This was one encouraging
message from a networking
session on oncology and palliative
care. Participants heard that
physicians sometimes resisted the
idea of physical therapists being
involved before surgery,
radiotherapy and chemotherapy,
fearing that discussions about side
effects might alarm the patient.
However this did not seem to
be the case, reported session
chair Jackie Drouin from the
United States. Providing
information in advance on
treatments for conditions such as
lymphoedema could provide
reassurance. One patient was

reported as saying to a physical

therapist who had seen her shortly
after diagnosis: Youve given us
some hope.
This was one of many
networking sessions held
yesterday, providing physical
therapists the opportunity to talk
informally about subjects of
common interest.
Another networking session
was for retired physical therapists.
What valuable new roles and and
activities could they take up within
and outside the profession, asked
session chair Nina Holten from
Denmark.
One participant answered that,
as well as providing younger
physical therapists with a historical
context, they could take up
advisory roles outside the
profession for example on local
planning and accessible housing.

Physical therapists working in the field of cancer gather round the table.

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The proud parents of seven-year-old Ansel LaPier from the United States,
one of the winners in WCPTs Art and Health Competiton, admire his
photograph of Shadows in Motion on display in the exhibition hall. Mother
Tanya is a physical therapist, and submitted her sons picture to the
competition. With his older brother, Ansel sells photography products to
raise funds for the local childrens hospital.

Aid for disaster and conflict

zones must be sustainable
(continued from page 1)
from disaster areas, sustaining
gains could be hard.
The interventions that came in
2010 were high cost and
unsustainable, and wont be
available to people for long after
the earthquake, he said. David
Charles, also on the panel, was
the only physical therapists on site
at the Hpital Albert Schweitzer
clinic when the earthquake struck.
We had a long list of challenges,
he said. One was the lack of
resources professionals,
equipment and finances. Then
there was the problem of
coordinating services. The third
area was knowledge there was
little disaster preparedness in the
professions, and we were young
physical therapists.
Najmuddin Helal, an Afghan
physical therapists who lost both
legs as a result of a landmine
blast, spoke of physical therapy in
a war zone.
As you know, Afghanistan has
been at war for more than 30
years, he said. In my opinion,
physical therapy services can be
set up and be permanent, even in a
war situation. Physical therapy
should be considered an essential
service, even in a war situation. It is
not something to be postponed for
better times, for times of peace.
I got an artificial leg 25 years
ago during the war. Can you

imagine what my life would be like

if I had had to wait for peace to get
it?
The true physical and
psychological trauma inflicted by
natural disasters and conflict
became apparent to delegates
when a physical therapist stood up
to speak of her own experiences of
Taiwan earthquake in 1999, and
became unable to speak because
of the memories evoked.
Around 2700 people died and
in the beginning I was there to help
them, she said. It is a horrible
experience. You feel you can do
nothing. The only thing you have is
your friends, and your skills, so
what we did was help people.
Then we found we could do lots of
things.
She said she believed it was
extremely important for physical
therapists to make sure they didnt
just concentrate on major
orthopaedic problems, but also on
soft tissue injuries and lower back
pain.
If you have lost your family,
and you have back pain, it is
extremely uncomfortable for them.
But if you can help them with their
back pain, it can help them with
their psychological recovery. One
year after the earthquake, we
found that a lot of people got post
traumatic stress syndrome. We
also found that the rate of stroke
increased because of the stress.

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Fund makes world of a difference

Data on PT
workforce is
lacking
Global health workforce planning
suffers from lack of awareness of
physical therapy and a lack of
statistics on the professions
density from country to country.
This was the consensus from
participants in a discussion panel
on health human resources
yesterday. Michel Landry, who is
head of the Physical Therapy
Programme at Duke University in
the US, said existing statistics
seemed to indicate that there is a
relationship beween density of
doctors and physical therapists
and life expectancy.
But the data was not good
enough to be definitive. We dont
know enough about the
relationship between supply and
demand, he said, urging
international organisations like
WCPT to collect data. WCPT has
embarked on a common data set
project to collect such information
from all its member organisations.

Physical therapists who received

bursaries from the Royal Dutch
Society for Physical Therapy
(KNGF) to attend the WCPT
Congress gathered to say thank
you yesterday.
The eight come from Tanzania,
the Philippines, Ethiopia,
Bangladesh, Rwanda, Malawi,
Thailand and Uganda.
For all of them, it was a chance
to connect with a world of physical
therapy they would otherwise not
have seen. Hailu Seifu Tsegaye
from Ethiopia believes he would
have been unable to get a visa to
travel to the Netherlands if it hadnt
been for the support of KNGF,
WCPT and Handicap International.
As it was, the visa only arrived four
hours before his flight was due to
depart from Ethiopia.
The bursary programme was
created to help people who did not
have sufficient funds to attend
World Physical Therapy 2011. The
bursary covered flight, five nights
accommodation and congress
registration for three days.

The eight bursary winners in the Dutch Village yesterday.

Priscillah Ondoga from Uganda

says she had never dreamed she
would be able to attend a WCPT
Congress. Its been amazing to
actually meet some of the people I
have read about, and whose
papers I have read, she said.
Also, just to meet so many
physical therapists from all over
the world, to be able to exchange
contacts and network. Its valuable
not just for me. The information

and contacts I collect will benefit

every physical therapist in my
country. It will help us develop our
entry level programme. I am so
grateful to KNGF.
Edward Gorgon from the
Philippines said: I value most the
rich discussion on research. We
are still struggling to develop our
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Collaborative
practice is an
important strategy
Could interprofessional education
and collaborative practice help
make the most of human health
resources, and be an important
strategy to improve patient care?
This was the question that
researchers at the University of
Saskatchewen asked, and Liz
Harrison, the universitys
Associate Dean of Physical
Therapy, presented the findings of
the research at a poster discussion
session yesterday.
A group of interprofessional
health researchers carried out a
knowledge synthesis study,
looking at literature between 2004
and 2009. It revealed that
interprofessional interventions
involving physical therapists
resulted in improvements in
workplace quality, provider
satisfaction, number of students in
rural placements, recruitment of

graduates to rural and

underserved communities and
reduction in costs of patient care.
The research concluded that
implementing interprofessional
interventions at education, practice
and organisational levels can
improve human health resource
planning and management
strategies.
The literature frequently cites
physical therapists and physical
therapy students as members of
health teams engaged in
interprofessional interventions.
We found that physical
therapists are often involved in
collaborative practice, said Liz
Harrison. However, there were
concerns about physical therapy
involvement. We arent being well
represented when these research
projects are being designed, she
said.

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The year the world

of physical
therapy changed
As the congress that marks WCPTs 60th
anniversary ends, Simon Crompton looks at the
values that defined the confederation at his
foundation, and continue still
Delegates at WCPTs first General Meeting in Copenhagen

Its hard to believe that, before the

second half of the 20th century,
though physical therapists were
part of national families, they were
not part of a global one.
In the early 50s, World War had
divided nations and peoples, and
the damage wreaked to economies
and infrastructure made the
challenge of making links between
like-minded people in different
countries all the more daunting.
But for physical therapists, all
that changed with the
establishment of WCPT in 1951.
WCPTs first President, Mildred

Elson from the United States, was

well aware that setting up a global
body to represent physical therapy
across the world was an ambitious
project. But in a world ravaged by
disability caused by war and
disease, the need was urgent.
The magnitude of the political,
socio-economic and health
problems could hardly be
recognised by the average citizen
then any more than now, she
recalled in 1983. It was
recognised universally, however,
that if peace and stability were to
be attained, all must work a share

Your code to encouraging

greater muscle activation

to alleviate these problems.

Representatives from 15
countries gathered in London in
1948 to investigate the possibility
of setting up an international
organisation to give guidance to
the profession, the United Nations,
specialised agencies and
international voluntary
organisations sponsoring
rehabilitation programmes.
Discussions with leaders of
other organisations convinced us
that there was no alternative to an
international physical therapy
organisation, said Mildred Elson.

The inaugural meeting of WCPT

took place on 8th September, 1951
in Copenhagen, Denmark.
National representatives
discussed how they might help
physical therapists promote the
interchange of professional and
scientific knowledge, create closer
links between the profession in
different countries and provide on
an international level many of the
services that professional
associations offered at national
level.
These have been priorities for
the Confederation ever since.

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Remember us this way...

Delegates collect their WCPT Congress News at the RAI entrance

Taking a breather in Dutch Village to reconsider that packed programme

The opening ceremonys keynote speaker Lorimer Moseley

Someone has a close shave in the exhibition area.

An apple a day... or two

Somehow managing to meet up in those enormous exhibition halls

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...some sights of congress

Its hard to believe, but today is the
final day of the 2011 WCPT
Congress. Thank you to our hosts
the KNGF for making us all so
welcome. If youve enjoyed the
experience, remember you can do
it again... and again, and again.
The next congress will be in
Singapore in 2015. So if you want
to have a reunion with some of the
people youve met in Amsterdam,
start organising now!

How a seagull sees our delegates

Promoting the next WCPT Congress, Singapore physical therapists demonstrate a traditional feather game

The amazing La Vizio gets congress off to a stunning start

The delicious smell of Dutch stroopwafel permeates the exhibition halls

You never know what youre going to find in a congress bag

Physical therapists keep in shape during the daily fitness sessions

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Are our patients and clients really

satisfied with what we do?
How do you really know whether
your patients or clients are happy
with the physical therapy services
they receive? Its a deceptively
difficult area, as the participants in
this mornings discussion panel on
patient satisfaction will describe.
At Got to keep our customers
satisfied: how do we best assess
and use patient satisfaction in
physical therapy?, panel
members from the USA, Brazil,
Rwanda, the UK, Canada and the
Netherlands will appraise different
methods of gauging satisfaction.
They will also discuss patient/
client satisfaction monitoring in
different social and cultural
contexts, and look at how to use
the data to make improvements in
service delivery and patient
experiences.
The session will be chaired by
Emma Stokes, who is a Senior
Lecturer at the Department of
Physiotherapy in Trinity College

Dublin and is the author of a new

book on rehabilitation outcome
measures.
She says that patient/client
satisfaction is one of the most
important outcomes of physical
therapy care, but it is notoriously
difficult to assess.
As physical therapists, we
work closely with our patients/
clients, and often their families
and carers. The individual
experience of those interactions,
whether with an individual physical
therapist or as part of an interdisciplinary team, may be
influential on the outcome of
interventions.
Increasingly it is a mandatory
requirement to formally gather and
evaluate the opinions of our
clients/patients for the
commissioners or providers of
funding for services. So this is an
important area.
Exploring and understanding

considerations and challenges to

capturing meaningful information.
This symposium will consider
how best to gather useful
information from physical therapy
service users. It will explore the
importance of taking a patient/
client-centred approach and
consider what questions should
be asked, and how they should be
asked. Differing cultural
perspectives will be discussed.
The panel draws on leading
international experts with differing
perspectives and patient
organisation representatives.
Emma Stokes

the perspective of the users of

physical therapy services may, at
first glance, seem like a simple
and straight forward enterprise
for example, completing a
satisfaction survey. Nonetheless,
there are interesting

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Focus turns to international

PT education issues
Education is a focus of attention
today, with two major sessions
looking at international issues this
morning.
First, a focused symposium will
look at how international clinical
education placements can benefit
the profession in many countries
but also cause problems. Then a
discussion panel will ask whether
there are any benefits from
interprofessional education and
collaborative practice.
The focused symposium,
entitled International Clinical
Education: bridging global
communities while developing
professional competency will
explore the impact that student
clinical placements can have on
community services in lowresource settings.
One of the speakers is Carilus
Okidi from Kenya, who is
recognised as a student preceptor
by two schools of rehabilitation at
Canadian universities.

I intend to speak about

international student placements
as the starting point for expanded
curriculum coverage, and a clear
understanding of cultural
diversities and policy. This can
pave the way for maximum
utilisation of resources, both
human and material.
I strongly feel that African
countries would benefit from these
arrangements, increasing
manpower and professionalism,
with international students offering
services and exchanging
knowledge among professionals
and students.
Such initiatives can facilitate
partnership and collaboration
between international
rehabilitation experts and
programmes.
The second main session, on
interprofessional education, will be
chaired by Patty Solomon,
Professor in Physiotherapy at
McMaster University in Canada.

She points out that in some parts

of the world, interprofessional
education (IPE) and
interprofessional collaboration
(IPC) have been receiving
increased attention within
education and health care
systems.
The panel discussion will look
at the challenge of shifting practice
to be more interprofessional and
the cultural differences in
understanding of what
collaboration entails.
We have worked hard as a
profession to develop our scope of
practice and professional identity.
Will we be at risk of losing ground
if we engage in IPC? Should IPE
be a priority in educational
programmess or are these skills
best learned on the job following
graduation?
The focused symposium on
international clinical placements is
at 8.30 to 10am in RAI Elicium 1.

Patty Solomon and Carilus Okidi

There are also platform abstracts

on clinical education at 10.45 in
RAI E106-107. The discussion
panel on multi-professional
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Research needed
to refine the ICF

Alan Jette, a presenter at todays focused symposium

Something for everyone

with an interest in the
international classification
Yvonne Heerkens of the Dutch Institute on Allied
Health Care previews the three sessions
concentrating on the ICF today
Thursday is an important day for
physical therapists interested in
the ICF, the International
Classification of Functioning,
Disability and Health, as there are
three ICF-sessions in succession!
Early in the morning at 7am
there is a WCPT network session
for ICF (in RAI: E103). The session
is chaired by Catherine Sykes of
the WCPT Secretariat, an ICF
expert. Participants are free to
bring up the issues that concern
them, and the session is an
excellent opportunity to talk to
other people interested in the
application of the ICF in physical

Yvonne Heerkens, who chairs the

ICF platform presentations.

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therapy practice and to learn from

each other.
Directly after the network
meeting, at 8.30am, there is a
focused symposium on the ICF
(RAI Forum) with the challenging
titleConcept to practice: moving
physical therapy forward using the
ICF.
It promises to be a successful
symposium with four excellent
speakers from all over the world:
Allan Jette (USA), Reuben
Escorpizio (Switzerland), Soraya
Maart (South Africa), and Jiro
Okochi (Japan).
After a coffee break at 10.45am
there is a platform presentation
session on the ICF (RAI: Elicium
D201-202), where there will be six
presentations providing an
overview of the potential for using
the ICF in physical therapy
practice.
The physical therapy
applications described in the
session will include using ICF core
sets for people with back problems
or breast cancer, using the ICF in
vocational rehabilitation, and using
it to describe the functioning of
children or elderly people.
These are excellent
opportunities to build or renew
your knowledge about the ICF and
to meet other people interested
and involved in the application of
the ICF in physical therapy
practice.

The ICF needs to be further

refined to make it better suited to
physical therapy practice,
according to one of the presenters
at todays focused sympositum on
Concept to practice: moving
physical therapy forward using the
ICF.
Alan Jette, Professor of Health
Policy and Management at Boston
Universitys (BU) School of Public
Health, will say that research is
needed to further refine the ICF
framework.
My hope for the symposium is
that physical therapists will better
appreciate the benefits that the
ICF can provide to the field of
physical therapy, research and
practice communities.
Jette is a physical therapist
with extensive research expertise
in the area of disablement and
outcomes measurement, and has
published widely on these topics.
He says: The biggest

challenge to using it in clinical

settings is adopting ICF measures
into clinical practice that are both
practical and psychometrically
adequate. The challenge for
researchers is to find better ways
to disseminate measurement
innovations for assessing the ICF
domains into clinical practice
around the globe.
The session aims to
demonstrate to delegates current
and concrete applications of the
ICF and how it can be used in
physical therapy research and
clinical care. It will help them
recognise the challenges and
opportunities of using the ICF in a
clinical setting and promising
areas for future research to
advance the ICF within physical
therapy.
Concept to practice: moving
physical therapy forward using the
ICF is at 8.30am in the RAI Forum

Where the world of

physical therapy meets
The World Confederation for Physical
Therapy is the sole international voice for
physical therapy, representing more than
250,000 physical therapists worldwide
through more than 100 member
organisations.
WCPT is committed to forwarding the
physical therapy profession and its
contribution to global health. It encourages
high standards of physical therapy research,
education and practice.
You can find out about the wide range
of resources, information and services it
provides on its website www.wcpt.org

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Are we getting best

value from information
technologies?
Wireless and mobile technologies
and social networking have
transformed the way we work and
communicate over the past
decade.
Physical therapists have been
among the professional groups
that have seen the potential for
improving the quality of their
services. But have they made the
most of the opportunities, and
what directions should future use
of new technologies take if we are
to truly capitalise on their
potential?
A discussion panel today (Can
new information technologies add
value to physical therapy practice
and outcomes? RAI Forum,
13:45-15.15) will be chaired by
Simon Crompton, a British health
journalist and editor of WCPT
publications. We have an
extremely knowledgable panel
with a wide ranger of experience

on the use of information

technology in healthcare, he said.
With the help of participants
from the audience, Im hoping we
can look beyond all the fabulous
opportunities that information
technologies present, and try and
answer some fundamental
questions.
How to we measure the value
that new technologies bring to the
profession? Do we know whether
their introduction ultimately brings
benefits to patients/clients? And
what have we learned about
pitfalls and benefits that could
inform future projects?
The panel will consist of
physiotherapists Rachael Lowe,
Eugene Mutimura, Lisbeth
Eriksson and Lisa Harvey. It will
also include Neil Pakenham
Walsh, the coordinator of the
Healthcare Information for All by
2015 campaign (HIFA2015).

Among those contributing to discussions at the session on how new

information technologies can add value to physical therapy practice and
outcomes are Rachel Lowe from the UK (top) Simon Crompton, editor of
WCPT publications (left), and Eugene Mutimura from Rwanda

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Coming up: the IFOMPT

congress and more!
If youve caught the congress bug,
there are lots of major events
coming up in the world of physical
therapy. One of the most popular
will be the IFOMPT world
congress. Details are below,
followed by other major physical
therapy events in the coming
months and years
30th Sept-5th Oct 2012
IFOMPT 2012
Rendez-vous of hands and minds
Quebec City, Canada
IFOMPT is hosting its world
congress ofmanual/musculoskeletal physiotherapyin Eastern
Canada. The best and brightestin
research, clinical practice and
academicswill come together.
www.ifomptconference.org
28th-31st Aug 2011
8th G-I-N Conference
Linking Evidence, Policy &
Practice
Seoul, Korea

www.g-i-n.net/events/8thconference
31st Aug- 2nd Sept
European Conference on Post
Polio Syndrome
Copenhagen, Denmark
www.polioconference.com
29th Nov-1st Dec
2nd Asia Pacific CBR Congress
CBR: Building Communities for
Everyone
Manila, Philippines
Web: http://www.ncda.gov.ph
17th-19th Dec 2011
International Conference on
Current Trends in Physiotherapy &
Occupational Therapy
Goa, India
www.ijpotconf.com
6th-9th Mar 2012
28th International Seating
Symposium
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Web: www.interprofessional.ubc.
ca/28th_Seating.htm
22-27 Apr 2012
13th World Congress on Public
Health
Towards Global Health Equity
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Web: www.etpha.org/2012
6th-9th June 2012
9th WCPT Africa Congress
Nairobi, Kenya
Email: www.ksphy.org
8th-9th Sept 2012
Singapore Physiotherapy
Association National Congress
www.physiotherapy.org.sg
8th-9th Nov 2012
3rd European Congress on
Physiotherapy Education
Vienna, Austria
Web: http://congress2012.
physioaustria.at
4th-9th Sept 2013
WCPT Asia Western Pacific
Congress
Taichung, Taiwan
www.ptaroc.org.tw

Its nearly
over... but its
never over
Its the last day of congress but
this isnt the end. There are plenty
of ways to continue with all the
links and learning youve begun.
Here are some suggestions:
Swap details. Easily done. A bit
archaic.
Stay in touch via Linked in www.
linkedin.com and Facebook www.
facebook.com
Follow the WCPT Facebook
page, where youll find lots of
colleagues with similar interests
Keep up to date with the WCPT
webpage www.wcpt.org which is
constantly updated with new
information and initiatives
Create a Google group, where
you can continue to discuss
issues with friends and
colleagues you have met in
Amsterdam. You can find out how
at http://groups.google.com/
Read WCPT News. Its online,
and theres a new issue every
quarter. www.wcpt.org/wcptnews

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The things I like about working for Queensland Health are the professional development
and career progression opportunities, work-life balance and supportive team
environment. Kelly Murdoch, Physiotherapist, Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital