International Speakers At Physiotherapy Conference
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International Speakers At Physiotherapy Conference
International and New Zealand speakers are
presenting state-of-the-art research on health topics with
potential for impact on many New Zealanders, at the
scientific conference of the New Zealand Society of
Physiotherapists in Dunedin 18-20 April.
Some of the research has exciting and far-reaching implications. Sometimes the effects will be on big groups of the population, like those who suffer from bad backs at some stage in their lives; sometimes on groups with particular problems children with cerebral palsy and women with incontinence problems, for example.
Noteworthy for his success, his life and his opinions is one of the keynote speakers, Dr Stanley Paris. Stanley is an expatriate New Zealander who founded and owns a flourishing university in Florida. At age 70 he is training five hours a day to swim the English Channel for the third time, aiming to raise a million dollars for charity and set a record with the Guinness Book of Records in the process. Stanley has been described as an innovator, a risk-taker, a leader, and a visionary. In his professional life he has achieved the highest possible recognition, and in his private life he has performed extraordinary feats
Some of the topics to be
covered at the conference are:
* Maori and
rehabilitation;
* Exciting possibilities for children
with cerebral palsy;
* Waging war to avert 36 million
deaths from chronic diseases;
* Breathing is not so
simple after all;
* Danger of injuries in child
athletes;
* "I just fell over" helping adults with
intellectual disabilities not to fall;
* Physiotherapy
may slow progress of knee osteoarthritis;
* Best advice
and treatment for bad backs;
* Physiotherapy engagement
in a dramatically changing environment;
* Improving the
lives of people with disabilities;
* Walking in the
community after a stroke;
* An age-old problem that just
won't go away sleep apnoea;
* Improving continence
without surgery or drugs;
* Helping rural workers avoid
back injuries;
* Delivering the health care rural people
want.
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