Bermudian Physio Chairs meeting In Barbados

Bermudian physiotherapist Andrea Cann recently chaired the annual accepted meeting for the North the usa Caribbean place [NACR] of the realm Confederation for physical therapy [WCPT] in Bridgetown, Barbados.

The meeting, held on April 28 and April 29, become attended via 21 physiotherapists representing 11 of the 14 member businesses inside the location, which included the Chair of the Bermuda Physiotherapy association, Tanaeya Burch.

Tanaeya Burch, Chair of the Bermuda Physiotherapy association, & Andrea Cann, Chair of the North the us Caribbean place for physical remedy:

also in attendance became the vice chairman of the WCPT, Dr. Margot Skinner. The NACR includes Member companies from The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Curaçao, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the USA.

Haiti was represented as an observer country working to join the WCPT.

this is the 2nd time that a physiotherapist from Bermuda has been the Chair of the NACR seeing that its formation in 1991.

Mrs. Burch and Ms. Cann in Barbados with Lareto, one of the WCPT mascots for the 2017 WCPT Scientific Congress in South Africa:

Its desires consist of representing the Physiotherapy profession within the region; advocating for more desirable attention of the profession all through the location; and promotion and aiding within the construction and renovation of high requisites in physiotherapy practice, training, management, and analysis.

additional goals include fostering communique and sharing of tips among nations of the NACR; taking part with other like-minded regional and national companies; and facilitating policy building inside governmental and regional groups.

Delegates of the 2016 NACR commonplace meeting in Barbados:

Ms. Cann referred to, "The imaginative and prescient of the North the united states Caribbean place is that physiotherapists might be independent practitioners who are educated at the publish-baccalaureate level and guided with the aid of ethics, values, concepts of professionalism, lifelong getting to know and facts-based follow for the prognosis of, interventions for, and prevention of impairments, practical boundaries, and disabilities related to move, feature and health; and who are leaders in health and social development sectors."

The NACR meets yearly to discuss and collaborate on the enterprise and concerns in the region. The WCPT holds its standard meetings every 4 years with a scientific congress each 2 years. The remaining well-known assembly and Congress became remaining yr in Singapore and the subsequent congress may be in July 2017 in Cape city, South Africa.

For greater advice in regards to the WCPT visit the site. Bermuda is slated to host the 2021 NACR conventional assembly.

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