This post follows a blogpost on a brief history of the 1st WCPT Congress in London in 1953.  You can access this post here. Catherine Worthingham from the USA - who would later give her name to prestigious APTA Fellowships - gave a talk on Trends in physical therapy education that is worth briefly quoting from: Although physical therapy is one of the oldest forms of patient care, it is a relative newcomer to the constellation of medical and medical auxiliary professions.  This fact is both a handicap and an advantage.  A handicap, because recognition and appropriate support for a new field of professional effort is hard to obtain.  An advantage, in that as a new profession we are not … [Read more...] about Catherine Worthington’s notes from the 1st WCPT Congress in 1953