General meeting

The IFOMPT general meeting, 3 July 2024, was attended by 85 people.

Activities at the meeting included:

• discussion of progress on IFOMPT’s strategic plan
• executive committee elections
• name change
• new IFOMPT member organisations

The following people were elected to serve on the executive committee:

• president: Paolo Sanzo
• vice president: Nathan Hutting
• Pierre Roscher
• Bart Vanthillo
• Dusty Quinn

A majority of participants at the meeting voted to change the specialty group’s name from International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists to International Federation of Manual and Musculoskeletal Physical Therapists. 

Conference

Almost 1,700 people attended the IFOMPT conference, 4-6 July 2024.

The theme for the conference was crossing bridges – between research, clinical practice, education,
patients’ perspectives and the needs of society, and the future of musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy and IFOMPT’s role in tackling the global MSK burden. 

Courtsey: https://world.physio/news/ifompt-marks-50th-anniversary-general-meeting-and-conference