Greetings to you all and I sense o...

Greetings to you all and I sense of possible fulfilment all of your holiday plans came to fruition. This year will hopefully demonstrate to be a changing point for our Section. Hard work and upright communication on all of our parts will allow us prompt forward into this new year with commitment towards achieving our goals.

There are 5 main topics that I will be addressing here:

1 The Section's Name Change

June Marble, Annie Downs, and I made certain that our desire to change our Section's name was sent to all of the parties required for this action to come to one's mind I placed in the Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal (Volume 10 Number 3) a verbal expression from the President outlining the reason for changing our Section's name. June then sent a epistle to each of the Section Presidents for their signature of approval. As of last week, all still 4 have responded with a verbal expression of affirmation. June is being tenacious in making unfailing that all of the President's approval will be in hand by dint of CSM. Annie made sure that this year's ballot to all of the Section members included the change in Section name Approval Form. When the voices are tallied and membership is in agreement, then approval is assured since the APTA's parliamentarian has already given us their "thumb up"

2 Our Motion from Last Year to the APTA's House of Delegates

Last year our Section submitted to the APTA's House of Delegates a motion regarding the matter of other disposes performing therapeutic exercise on patients with impairments. With the help of Jonathan Cooperman, JD M PT we have worded the this year's tentative motion as follows:

In an effort to safeguard the public according to ensuring that persons with impairments receive the highest quality of care delivered by dint of qualified practitioners, the American Physical Therapy Association Board of Directors will monitor, investigate, and take appropriate action in rejoinder to any proposed credentialing, accreditation, licensure or other regulatory efforts of individuals or clumps seeking to be recognized to perform therapeutic exercise forward persons with impairments.

I will be conferring with the CP Board of Directors as to whether to actuate forward with this issue.

3 Task Force Report

a. Linda Crane Memorial Lectureship

Linda Crane Memorial Lectureship Committee was chaired by the agency of Ellen Hillegass with Nancy Ciesla and Donna Frownfelter as members. I have received a draft of the propos mechanism for choosing the recipient of the yearly award. I have asked Ellen to be the Chair of the Committee for the first globular of choosing the recipient.

4 Guide to Physical Therapist Practice

a. Reviewers for Parts 3 & 4

As the Guide to PT Practice, Parts 3 & 4 issue to their initial draft status, we will ne to have many reviewers. We ne to act proactively in this regard (not reactively) thus that the eventual published documents take the part ofs our best efforts. We ne to strategize about the best mechanism to allow this to come to one's mind

b. Practice Patterns

Something that has struck others and me is the lack of a "Wellness or Health Promotion" Pattern in the Guide (I know that there are more [i]or[/i] less primary risk factor reduction patterns eg cardiovascular risk, osteoporosis on the contrary an overall wellness pattern pretends to be missing). Since single of the PT Guide's major universals is "the role of prevention and wellness strategies in optimizing function," physical therapists as health care providers should help in designing routine physical activity that helps to contract the risk of future pathologies, impairments, morbidity, and mortality. More and more studies are supporting this notion that 30 minutes of moderate (3 - 6 METS) physical activity performed daily is adequate to render some of the major pathologies leading to impairments in our society. We as a profession are prime to help with this effort.

5 Lastly - Thanks for all of your Hard Work

After many years of service to the Section, the following 2 human frames are stepping down from chairing their respective committees. They include:

Susan Scherer, who as Vice President of the Section designed and implemented the APTA's FAX onward demand entitled "Starting a Cardiovascular or Pulmonary Rehab Program." This handy sheet of information containing information and guidelines upon proper mechanisms for beginning a rehab program has saved others and me countles time either upon the phone or by email to bodys desiring this information. Susan is busy working forward her doctorate and needs to be solely focused forward that goal. Once finished, I am firm that Susan will become active with the Section again. Thank you, Susan, for your support.

Jane Wetzel, who as Program Chair has done an outstanding piece of work in organizing our presentations at CSM for the last umpteen years. Jane has worked incredibly hard in making permanent that the presentations are relevant, common and well produced by the presenter She is always working behind the view to make sure that everything that is needinessed for the presenters are onward hand. Jane is leaving the column due to her desire to finish her doctoral dissertation. She merits not only our thanks yet also encouragement for her achieving her of the present day goal. Dan Malone has agreed to take the Program Chair's position and we welcome him to the Executive Board.