The Roots
Physical therapy as a profession actually originated during this global event in response to the need created when soldiers were injured in war.
What is World War I?
The first recognized specialty certification in physical therapy in 1985
What is cardiopulmonary?
This is the licensing body of Physiotherapist in The Bahamas
What is the Health Professions Council (HPC)?
What the "S" in SOAP stands for.
What is Subjective?
This term means you are perspiring.
What is disphoretic?
The title given to the first physical therapists during World War I.
What are “reconstruction aides”?
The sole international voice for physical therapy
What is the World Confederation for Physical Therapy?
This group of Bahamian physios add some "pop" to the community promoting global awareness for physical therapy.
Who are the Pop Up Physios?
These two professions complete the Rehabilitation Team
Occupational Therapy and Speech & Language Pathology
The use of ultrasound with a medication gel
What is phonophoresis?
In response to the Poliomyelitis outbreak in the 1920's and '30's, physical therapists decided to form this professional organization.
The American Women’s Physical Therapeutic Association.
The WCPT region that the BAPT membership belongs to.
What is the North America Caribbean Region (NACR)?
The number of PTs registered with the HPC.
What is 72?
Abbreviation is DME
What is Durable Medical Equipment?
Tennis Elbow
What is "lateral epicondylitis"?
The first president of the American Women’s Physical Therapy Association.
Who is Mary McMillan?
The year the first PTA program has graduates
What is 1969?
The first president of the Bahamas Association of Physical Therapists (BAPT)?
Who is Rhoda Hanna?
The year the first DPT program began
What is 1992?
Knock-kneed
What is Genu valgum?
As the 1930s ended the profession changed its name from the American Women’s Physical Therapy Association to this, before it once again changed its name to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) which it remains named to this day.
What is the American Physiotherapy Association?
The only accreditation agency recognized by the US Dept. of Education to accredit PT and PTA education programs in the US?
What is Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE)?
Month and year the BAPT was founded
May 2000
A medical doctor who specializes in physical medicine, rehabilitation, and pain medicine.
Who is a Physiatrist?
An impaired ability to perform rapid, alternating movements
What is dysdiadochokinesia?