Informativo World Physiotherapy janeiro 2021

January 2021   Texto original em inglês World Physiotherapy gains three new member organisations Membership of World Physiotherapy for the three new member organisations took effect from 1 January 2021. The total number of World Physiotherapy member organisations is now 125, representing more than 660,000 physiotherapists around the world. The new member organisations are: Dominican Association of Physical Therapists (Asociación Dominicana de Terapeutas Físicos) Palestinian General Syndicate for Physical Therapy Vietnam Physical Therapy Association (Hội Vật lý trị liệu Việt Nam) Find out more

World Physiotherapy pays tribute to Sandra Mercer-Moore Last week World Physiotherapy learned of the death of Sandra Mercer-Moore, a world leader in physiotherapy who helped lay the foundations for the growth in our membership and our regions. Sandra was president of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (now known as World Physiotherapy) from 1999-2007. Under her presidency, the organisation launched its first website in 2001 and membership reached 100 member organisations. She was a member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association for 57 years and the association’s national president from 1991-1992. She was awarded Member of the Order of Australia for services to physiotherapy. Read World Physiotherapy's tribute to Sandra Mercer-Moore Registration launches for World Physiotherapy Congress 2021 online  Save up to 20% and book your registration before the early bird deadline on 11 February. For the first time the World Physiotherapy congress will be held entirely online giving participants around the world a unique opportunity to attend with reduced fees and no travel or accommodation costs. Make the most of this unique opportunity and register now. Bursary programme: if you are a physiotherapist from a World Physiotherapy member organisation in a low or lower middle income country/territory, you may qualify for a bursary place. The deadline for for bursary applications is 5 February 2021.  Book your place before the early bird deadline WHPA calls for support and action for health professionals in video message The World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) has called for continued support and real action to support health professionals and other health and care workers in 2021. The presidents of the five organisations that make up the WHPA, representing 34 million health professionals globally, marked the start of the Year of the Health and Care Workers with a call for concrete action to help safeguard underfunded, COVID-affected health systems. The WHPA call was issued as a video message from the five presidents when the 148th WHO executive board met on 18 January 2021. Find out more and watch the video NEW from PEDro, the physiotherapy evidence database

PEDro adds three new languages to website The PEDro website is now available in Polish, Romanian, and Ukrainian. This enhancement means PEDro has 16 language sections: Arabic, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, and Ukrainian. bit.ly/2YfaWyj Visit the PEDro website 'You Ask #PEDroAnswers' campaign The 'You Ask #PEDroAnswers' campaign is designed to encourage physiotherapists to develop their searching skills and perform more database searches to find high-quality research to inform practice. This campaign will help you improve your searching skills using the PEDro Advanced Search. bit.ly/36akDCw Watch the video

NEW webinar on physiotherapist entry level education A new World Physiotherapy webinar, Reimagining physiotherapist entry level education – learning from COVID-19, will be held on Monday 22 February 2021 at 14:00 UTC. This fifth webinar in the series will discuss what changes are taking place in practice due to COVID-19 and the implications for the future of physiotherapist education. Find out more and register for the webinar APTA celebrates 100th anniversary The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) celebrated its 100th anniversary this month. Founded in 1921, it opened its new national headquarters to mark the occasion on Friday 15 January 2021. The APTA was one of the 11 national physiotherapy associations to found the World Confederation for Physical Therapy, now known as World Physiotherapy. Find out more Updated WHO guideline on COVID-19 management The World Health Organization (WHO) has published an updated guideline titled 'Clinical management of COVID-19: living guidance'. It provides recommendations that can be applied when caring for patients during the COVID-19 care pathway, and now also also includes Best Practice Statement on caring for COVID-19 patients after their acute illness, along with five new recommendations. Find out more and download the guideline