Latest news

While physios need to look at how they provide equality in the services they offer, that doesn't mean all people should be treated as equal, Jonathon Kruger, recently appointed chief executive at the World Confederation for Physical Therapy, told delegates.

Physios and other health care professionals need to go one step further than just using new technology for their patients. They also need to change patterns of working to reflect the possibilities for healthcare delivery that such innovations offer.

Brian Caulfield, dean of physiotherapy at University College Dublin, warned physiotherapists to be extremely cautious about including activity sensors into their practice.

Healthcare professionals must agitate for government action to tackle obesity, a symposium on population health issues heard.

Physiotherapists can help address the scandal of premature mortality among people with mental illness, said Brendon Stubbs, head of physiotherapy at South London and the Maudsley NHS Trust.

A mental health physio has completed one of the toughest desert marathons in the world in which more than a third of competitors did not finish.

Do physical therapists have a shared understanding of what patient-centred care really means?

Physical therapists need to develop new skills and evolve to meet the challenges of a changing world.

Physical therapists will increasingly need to tackle the ‘complex phenomenon’ of frailty, according to the work of leading researchers from across Europe.

Physiotherapists need to start thinking about frailty as a long-term condition, and should be collecting evidence to prove they can help.