Physiotherapy conference
About 120 physiotherapists from throughout New Zealand and some from Australia are attending the twenty-first national biennial conference of the New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists in Christchurch this week.
The conference will be officially opened this morning by the Dean of the Clinical School of Medicine (Profes- ! sor G. R. Rolleston) and will include such subjects as the management of coronary 1 patients trends in psychiatry, limb deformities in cerebral palsy, the handling of cereI bral palsy children, a history ■ of lumbar surgery, and other related topics. The guest speaker at the conference will. be Miss E. C. Minnigh, instructor in the Chicago allied health division of the Central Y.M.C.A. Community College. She will speak on the means of recording progress in patients, in particular in the treatment of those witfi Parkinson’s disease. Professor W. R. Catton, professor of sociology at the university of Canterbury, will 1 be the guest speaker at the conference dinner this evening. The conference will end on ! Friday.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32860, 8 March 1972, Page 11
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