Mangalore: Three-day 48th Annual Conference of IPA Inaugurated
 
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (RS/SP)
 
Mangalore, Jan 22: The three-day 48th annual conference of the Indian Association of Physiotherapists (IPA) was inaugurated on Friday January 22 at the TMA Pai Convention Centre in the city, by Prof H S Ballal, pro chancellor of Manipal University.
 
Speaking on the occasion, Prof H S Ballal said that physiotherapy has become part of the medical service and also has strongly emerged as an important section in health sciences. Physiotherapy’s acceptance and popularity have grown with its adoption of advanced methods of treating the patients, he added.

Physiotherapy, backed by the record of curing several major diseases, has reached the common man also, and it has got added importance with its special feature of taking care of the patients in a distinct way, he said. 
 
Prof Meg Elayne Morris from Australia, who presented the key note address of the conference, said that the conference will focus more on the development of physiotherapy professionals in their future and also on the advanced methods of treatments.
 
Dr S Ramananda Shetty, vice chancellor of Rajiv Gandi University of Health Sciences, presided over the inaugural programme. Dr Ali Irani, president of IPA, Dr M Rajagopal Shetty, ex-syndicate member of RGUHS, MLA, U T Khader, and conference organizing Secretary, Prof U T Ifthikar Ali, and others were present.
 
The conference with nearly 4000 delegates from India and abroad, will also feature paper presentations from experts in the field of physiotherapy from abroad.