MAKING CALIFORNIA A BETTER PLACE TO PRACTICE MANUAL THERAPY
Welcome to the official website of the California Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy Special Interest Group (COMPTSIG). We are a special interest group of the California Physical Therapy Association (CPTA www.ccapta.org). Our special interest is providing the best in orthopedic musculoskeletal care for healthcare consumers in California through the use of manual therapy, exercise, and education.
Our mission is to serve our members and healthcare consumers in California by elevating the quality of practice and enriching the body of knowledge of orthopedic manual physical therapy through fellowship, education, research, legislation and collaboration.
If you are an orthopedic physical therapist that uses manual therapy daily in the clinic or a physical therapist simply with an interest in manual therapy, then please join us. We would love to have your insights, input, expertise and viewpoints in our forums and at our meetings and we need your support for our on-going legislative challenges. We have much to offer our members. Beyond the warm fuzzy feeling of being part of an organization dedicated to improving clinical excellence in patient care throughout California, we offer our members the following:
- we continuously fight proactively for your rights to practice manual therapy in all of its forms
- a manual therapy forum that allows any member to pose a question with master clinicians available to answer all inquiries
- a clinical pearls section for members to post interesting insights and helpful hints relating to manual therapy in the clinic
- a research pearls section for members to post helpful hints and advice related to all aspects of research
- reviews of clinically relevant manual therapy research articles
- a connection to like-minded physical therapists in California
- a reduced hourly rate for attorney fees for physical therapy related issues
- a quarterly newsletter to help keep you abreast of recent developments in OMPT
- discounts on COMPTSIG courses (recover your membership fee at your first course!)
We thank you for your interest in COMPTSIG and we hope that you see the value in joining other physical therapists in California who share your passion for orthopedic manual physical therapy.
John Gray, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT
Chair, COMPTSIG
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Congratulations to Rob Landel!
 Congratulations to our immediate past COMPTSIG chair, Rob Landel, PT, DPT, OCS, FAPTA, who has been selected as a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (FAPTA). This is the highest honor bestowed on an individual physical therapist in the physical therapy profession in the US. He has made outstanding contributions to the profession in education, research, and clinical care. He will be formally presented the award at the APTA's Annual Meeting in June 2012 in Tampa, Florida.
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Leg Day March 20th, 2012 was a success!
Ten (10) COMPTSIG members attended Leg Day in March this year.
If you are a COMPTSIG member who attended, send an email to kayamada@usc.edu.
Read this for more information: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9294946.htm
Thank you all for your support!
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New Website features for our COMPTSIG members:
- In the Members Only Section:
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- Continuing Education handouts
- Clinical Pearls
- Master Clinician Q&A forum
- Member Directory
- OMPT Forum (LinkedIn)
- Research Pearls
- Sponsor-a-Student program
- In the COMPTSIG News Section:
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Please read this new article:
A Comparison of Health Care Use for Physician-Referred and Self-Referred Episodes of Outpatient Physical Therapy, Health Services Research, 2011
Abstract link here.
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CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS 2012
THE CARDON REHABILITATION GRANT
up to $3,000
ELIGIBILITY: The principal investigator must be a member in good standing with the CPTA .
PURPOSE: To fund research efforts that relate to the science and/or practice of orthopedic manual physical therapy (OMPT).
DEADLINE: Four copies (three masked) of the proposal must be postmarked no later than August 1st, 2012.
Click here for application details.
On behalf of all of the members of the COMPTSIG, we would like to recognize CARDON REHABILITATION for their generosity
and commitment in support of research in orthopaedic manual physical therapy.
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John Gray, treasurer of COMPTSIG, receiving a check for $2,000 from Mardig Sevadjian, president of CARDON REHABILITATION. We are all deeply grateful for the generous support that we continue to get from CARDON REHABILITATION.
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Rob Landel, PT, DPT, OCS, Chair of COMPTSIG, thanks Robert Rowe, PT, DPT, DMT, MHS, President of AAOMPT, for the Academy’s generous donation of $5,000 to the COMPTSIG Practice Affairs Fund.
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09 Jun 2012 • Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, 1798 N. Garey Avenue, Pomona, CA 91767
30 Jun 2012 • California Rehabilitation and Sports Therapy, 2101 E 4th Street, Ste 170B, Santa Ana, CA 92705
30 Sep 2012 • Santa Clara, CA
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Thank you to our Sponsors:
“I have utilized Cardon manual therapy treatment tables in my private practice for 25 years. These treatment tables are reliable, easily adjustable, durable and a very important component of my manual therapy armamentarium. Cardon manual therapy tables are historically utilized by manual therapist throughout the world and are the only tables that I use in my clinic.”
JOE FARRELL, PT, M App Sc, DPT, GDMT, FFAAOMPT
Co-owner and co-founder of Redwood Orthopaedic Physical Therapy, Inc.
Senior Faculty of Kaiser Hayward Physical Therapy Fellowship Program in OMPT
First president and founding member of the American
Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists
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