WPTA Fall Conference
This past week I attended the WPTA fall conference in Wisconsin Dells, WI. The conference was great--and not even because it held at an awesome hotel/water park! I had the opportunity to not only get to know my classmates better, but also other PTs, PTAs and students from all over Wisconsin.
It was nice to see so many people gathering to further their education and enhance their professional development. I had the opportunity to learn something that I had never even heard of before called retlouping (http://retlouping.blogspot.com/). Please check it out. It was amazing to see this actually work, and I know it wasn't staged because two of my classmates were used!
I also had the opportunity to sit in on an issues forum. Here they discussed a lot of topics that are both directly and indirectly affecting physical therapists, such as how massage therapist are seeking licensure and how the ATCs in Wisconsin are trying to change their practice act and the states who have achieved doing so.
Before going I actually thought I would be bored out of my mind, but after sitting in on it I found some of the topics to be quite interesting and enlightening. Overall I was very happy that I attended the conference, and even though only one is required, I'm considering attending the conference in the spring as well.