Today we recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. On September 30 we honour and remember the Indigenous children who never returned home, survivors of residential schools, and their families and communities. Watch Courtney Bean, OPA’s President speak about this day, its history and significance to all of us. Find more resources [...]
Amanda Morin is an OPA member, Physiotherapist, and now children's book author. 'Last year I published a children's book 'Move with Nature'. It is an exercise routine from head to toe to have children develop their gross motor skills! The entire story was inspired by my work in South Africa where I provided exercise [...]
Jennifer George is an OPA member, podcaster, author and Physiotherapist. "I've been a practicing Physiotherapist (PT) since 2007, which is when I also became a caregiver to my chronically ill father. Throughout my career and caregiving, I saw both sides of the healthcare system - as a clinician and as a family member & [...]
I am a registered physiotherapist working in geriatric rehab and general medicine in a rehabilitation hospital in Toronto. The majority of patients we see are medically complex with numerous co-morbidities, often coming under our care with either a pre-existing wound or being at high risk of developing wounds. Having an ulcer highly affects our [...]
The Ontario Physiotherapy Association had its annual PHC Connect event on November 8 at the Burlington Family Health Team. PHC Connect is a networking event organized for physiotherapists working in primary health care organizations across Ontario. It has been fascinating through my exposure as a physiotherapist (PT) in primary healthcare to learn how physiotherapists [...]
Physio North is a biannual conference launched in the 1990s to enrich, empower and encourage physiotherapists and physiotherapist assistants working in northern Ontario. This September, we had more than 30 people register for Physio North 2019. Our theme was Maximizing Our Potential. Traditionally, we are a profession that constantly tries to maximize our clients' [...]
This year OPA once again exhibited at the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario (AFHTO) conference: Health System Integration Built on The Foundation of Team-Based Primary Health Care, which took place September 19-20, 2019. This was the fifth year in a row that OPA exhibited at this particular conference. I had the pleasure [...]
I am a registered physiotherapist and I have been working in long-term care (LTC) and geriatric rehabilitation for 13 years. Working with a fragile geriatric population means that at any one time a significant number of my patients have open wounds. I have had many patients whose course in rehab has been greatly affected [...]
By Alison Bonnyman, Secretary, OPA Board of Directors I was very pleased to be a part of the CPA Forum on Promoting Healthy Aging. Admittedly, it took some family persuasion to be away on the July long weekend, but it was worth it. Healthy Aging is a very timely topic both professionally, as we [...]
#WCPT2019: The thoughts of a Rookie Presenter & WCPT Delegate By Tracy Blake, PT, PhD What happens when 4500 physiotherapists from over 100 World Confederation for Physical Therapists (WCPT) member organizations descend on Geneva, Switzerland? Magic. Opening ceremonies was an incredible experience- I hadn’t truly understood the breadth of the physiotherapy community until I [...]
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