Introduction Welcome to January 2022 GPA Evidence Updates, bringing you latest evidence updates on physiotherapy interventions in some common conditions seen within the Ghanaian physiotherapy context. In this and subsequent editions, we bring you updates on Cerebral palsy, Low back, Stroke and Parkinson’s disease. We look forward to…
The attention of the Ghana Physiotherapy Association has been drawn to a publication circulating on social media regarding an alleged ‘health practitioner’ rendering ‘’physiotherapy services’’ at Nature’s Hand Therapeutic Centre, Gbawe. The Ghana Physiotherapy Association (GPA) wishes to state clearly that the said man in question, Jonathan Ohene…
The Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH) has called on the public to regularly exercise to help prevent lifestyle-related illnesses and COVID-19. A Senior Physiotherapist at the hospital, Mr Amos Badu, said regular exercises had become more necessary in recent times due to lifestyle changes and its associated diseases. …
Happy World Physiotherapy Day! Kudos to all Physiotherapists in Ghana.
WCPT is privileged to inform the members of the Ghana Physiotherapy Association that two of its members, Alberta Amissah Rockson and Mercy Ama Awuah Agtuahene have helped last year (2019) in reviewing the Early Rehabilitation in Conflicts and Disasters Field Handbook and E-Learning training modules. The resource was…
We are pleased to inform the Ghana Physiotherapy Association that one of its members, Beatrice E.A. Sankah, has been selected as a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Development Group for Osteoarthritis, tasked with working on the development of the WHO’s Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation. The…
The Ghana Physiotherapy Association (GPA) is the umbrella Professional Body of Physiotherapy Practitioners in Ghana. One of its core objectives is promoting public safety by ensuring that Physiotherapists uphold high standards of professionalism and moral ethics in their practice. The attention of the Association has been drawn to…
A physical therapist from Ghana will be among the main speaker at the profession’s largest and most important international gathering, the WCPT Congress 2019, to be held in next year in Geneva on 10th -13th MAY. The Ghanaian physical therapist taking part is profiled in the attached sheet. He will…
GHANA PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATION PRESENT, THE FOURTH BIENNIAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE, 2018 The Scientific Sub-committee of the 4th Biennial GPA’s Scientific Conference wishes to invite abstract for Oral and Poster Presentations towards the three-day conference in March, 2018. The details of the Scientific Conference are as follows: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS THEME OF CONFERENCE: Evidence Based…