Once a year the Home Care Advisory Committee (HCAC) and the Hospital Advisory Committee (HAC) are fortunate to join forces and collaborate on past and present issues. This fall, on October 28, we met and had a guest speaker from the 519 who presented on LGBTQ health and physiotherapy, and creating positive spaces. The [...]
Like many other professional development opportunities, the PHC Connect event taught me new skills to use immediately in my practice, drew on recent research, and provided a forum for participants to exchange ideas. The PHC Connect event, however, went a step further and helped each of us to reflect on how we consciously shape [...]
OPA recently launched a New to Practice community exclusively for OPA members in their first five years of practice, or new to practicing in Canada and for those who are in their final year of study in their program. The group is hosted on ignitephysio.ca, a free communications platform developed in Alberta for physiotherapists. [...]
Two 2017 OPA Award Winners share their experiences of winning OPA Awards. David White, 2017 PTA Leadership Award Winner: It was a regular workday at Hotel Dieu-Grace Healthcare when I was approached by my colleague, Amy Doiron, who is the OPA Windsor District President. She told me I was being nominated for the PTA [...]
Following a 7-week, 12,000 km coast-to-coast tour of physiotherapy in Canada, Dr. David Walton PT PhD and his research team from Western University are nearing the completion of the first phase of the Physio Moves Canada project with four more visits with unique and innovative physiotherapy practices and two more community clinician focus sessions. The [...]
At least it should be before you and your company sign up to exhibit. The first presumption is that you deal with the people who will be attending the exhibits. If the attendees are in your target market then exhibiting should be a no-brainer. The way that I see it is as follows: By [...]
In 2017 we sunset a successful strategic plan that achieved major goals including the integration of physiotherapists in primary care and year round marketing initiatives promoting the profession. As we look to the future we are pleased to announce the engagement of The Potential Group as strategic planning consultants to work with OPA to [...]
On Wednesday May 31 the Kitchener-Waterloo (KW) District was fortunate to host Susan Safadi, who is a physiotherapist at Meridian Spine and Joint Physiotherapy in London Ontario. Susan holds a PhD in Biochemistry, is a New Balance fit specialist, and an avid short and long distance runner. Susan travelled to the KW District to [...]
The Ontario Physiotherapy Association (OPA), with help from second year student representatives, organized PNE information sessions in May and June. For more than five years now, OPA has organized the sessions at each of the five Ontario universities with physiotherapy programs to help second year students prepare for the clinical component of the national [...]
May is National Physiotherapy Month and physiotherapists, physiotherapist assistants and physiotherapy students across Canada celebrate their profession and show how #PhysioHelpsLives in so many ways. With events across the province and the country, National Physiotherapy Month (NPM) is a time to share about the value of physiotherapy and how physiotherapists and physiotherapist assistants are [...]
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