| | From the President and Secretary General September is an important month for WCPT, for two reasons. First, World Physical Therapy Day falls on 8th September, a date when we always encourage physical therapists around the world to celebrate and publicise the contribution of the profession. Second, because there is a major United Nations summit on non-communicable diseases taking place in New York on 19th and 20th September. Today we are issuing a press release that we hope you will use to promote World Physical Therapy Day. Very soon, the World Health Professions Alliance, of which WCPT is a part, will also be producing educational materials for the public and professionals to coincide with the summit. We hope this will help make the voice of health professionals heard on non-communicable diseases and be an opportunity for everyone to move forward the global role of the profession in preventing and treating non-communicable conditions. Kind regards,
Marilyn Moffat and Brenda J Myers If you would like to use all or part of this e-letter for your own newsletters/websites then please feel free. We need your assistance to reach the profession around the world, so please send this e-update to your members. World Physical Therapy Day With only a few days to go we hope that you are planning activities for World Physical Therapy Day on the 8th September. Participation in the celebrations is growing each year and we have started receiving reports of events around the world that are going to take place next week. The new materials we are providing this year focusing on physical therapy and non-communicable disease include: Don't miss this yearly event to put physical therapy in the spotlight! For ideas on activities go to the WCPT website at www.wcpt.org/wptday and read about last year's events. Take a look at the toolkit and download the resources we have made available. Don't miss this opportunity and start planning now! During the recent WCPT 60th anniversary gala dinner in Amsterdam, the 2011 awards were presented. Photographs of the recipients receiving their awards and their citations may now be viewed on the WCPT website at www.wcpt.org/awards2011. WHO has recently released a publication highlighting practical solutions to burn prevention. Burns are a serious global public health problem, and fire-related burns alone result in more than 195,000 deaths per year. The publication focuses on practical, affordable, and sustainable solutions and shows clearly that much can be done to prevent burns and provide better care for them when they do occur. By reviewing and presenting the latest evidence on burn prevention in one place, the publication also seeks to catalyse increased burn prevention activities globally. The publication also covers advances in care which can reduce mortality, disability and suffering among those who are burned. Burn prevention: success stories, lessons learned and other related publications and factsheets may be downloaded at www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/publications/other_injury/en/  This month's free peer-reviewed articles from Educata, a WCPT partner providing online continuing education, include:
Spinal manipulation and mobilisation for back and neck pain: a blinded review. By: Koes BW, Assendelft WJ, van der Heijden GJ, Bouter LM, Knipschild PG. Made available by PubMed. BMJ. 1991 Nov 23;303(6813):1298-303. The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of spinal manipulation for patients with back or neck pain. Electromyographic shoulder activity in men and women professional golfers. By: Jobe, FW, Perry J, Pink M. Am J Sports Med. 1989;17(6):782-7. This study compares the electromyographic firing patterns of normal shoulder musculature in men and women professional golfers. To download these articles go to the WCPT website at www.wcpt.org/node/29540. Concerned that the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represents a significant threat to human health and social and economic development, the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) is launching an advocacy and awareness raising campaign. A key component being the WHPA Health Improvement Card (to be launched on 12th September 2011). This is a simple, universal educational tool for adults to assess and record their status related to common risk factors. It encourages individuals and their health professional to take a proactive approach in preventing NCDs and associated disability. Counterfeit medical products campaign workshop As part of the WHPA counterfeit medical products campaign a fourth regional workshop on combating counterfeit medicines is being organised in Prague, Czech Republic, on 21st-22nd November, 2011. This follows on from workshops in Nigeria, Costa Rica and Taiwan over the past year. Representatives from member organisations in Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia will be invited to attend the Prague event. The Czech Chamber of Pharmacists will be the host organisation of the workshop. INFORMATIONIf you are unable to access our website using the links within this email, you may need to copy and paste the hyperlinks directly into your internet browser. If you have problems reading this email please follow the link below for help. www.wcpt.org/eupdate | | | CONTENTS | | | | | | CONGRESS |  16th International WCPT Congress 20-23 June 2011 Amsterdam, Holland | | |
