First off, thank you to everyone who voted on the PTWA Student Blog. Overall 116 people voted!!! 31% of the students stated that the current state of manipulation would effect their decision to stay in WA upon graduation. This is a big number considering the focus of the Spring PTWA conference was on the shortage of physical therapists in WA state.
This information was presented to all members at the conference during a panel discussion. I got several remarks from people who were very amazed at these statistics and had never thought about this issue affecting the shortage. So thank you to everyone for helping to increase awareness and support for manipulation in WA state.
Secondly, PTWA held a fundraiser dinner for two of our legislators, Dawn Morrell and Eileen Cody last friday, both whom have been large supporters of PT issues/legislation. Jeremy Angaran, co-lead of the manipulation task force got to chat with Dawn about the issue of manipulation. Jeremy increased her awareness that manipulation is a skill that PTs are trained in. He also presented to her that this issue is very important to our newly graduating students and that if we don't remove the ambiguity from our current laws, many students will leave our state. So thank you again to all who voted and to Jeremy for spreading the student voice. As a united student front we will be heard and we will affect change! Lets keep it up.
Viva la Revolution!
Brett Neilson
PTWA Student Liaison
what is the exact law and how is it enforced?
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