Purpose: Physiotherapy in private practice differs from physiotherapy practised in a public
setting in several ways, the most evident of which is the for-profit nature of private …

Purpose: The recent introduction of master's level curricula for Occupational Therapy (OT)
and Physiotherapy (PT) training programs in Canada raises both challenges and …

Background Shared decision making (SDM) reduces the asymmetrical power between the
therapist and the patient. Patient involvement improves patient satisfaction, adherence, and …

Background Increasing challenges to health care systems and the prominence of patient-
centered care and evidence-based practice have fostered the application of qualitative …

Physical therapist practice has a distinct focus that is holistic (ie, patient centered) and at the
same time connected to a range of other providers within health care systems. Although …

Physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) confront ethical decisions
everyday. The difficulty of such decisions range from situations of simply abiding by …

This study identified and described ethical problems encountered by physiotherapists in
their practice and physiotherapists' moral sensitivity in ethical situations. A questionnaire …

The purpose of this article is to discuss the theoretical concept of moral distress in the
context of current physical therapy practice and ethics knowledge and differentiate it from …

Background: An important aspect of physiotherapy professional autonomy is the ethical
code of the profession, both collectively and for the individual member of the profession. The …

In the past, several researchers in the field of physiotherapy have asserted that
physiotherapy clinicians rarely use ethical knowledge to solve ethical issues raised by their …