Journal of Novel Physiotherapies
Open Access

Abstract

Technological, social and cultural innovations of the last 150 years provided Western society with new and in number expanding generations: those of the old and the very old. These demographic developments demonstrate immense societal success that can be attributed among others to mostly top down organized politics and policies and their focus on urbanization, technical industrialization and education of the population, combined with improvement of prevention-, care- and cureconcepts. The dynamics of this world wide innovation-process continue in a more bottom up fashion and gradually results in new health and health-related paradigms for the next generations, aligned seeking for new success. Physiotherapy is ever since part of the aforementioned process and contributed greatly to this success. Likewise, the profession may play its role in the emerging new paradigms and concepts. Consequently it is time to compliment the profession on the base of several scientific examples and, at the same time, to start an international movement to operate hand in hand in a global fashion to not just seek new success, but truly find and grasp it. Thereby striving for societal, economic and scientific impact for those in need, while battling the endemic problem of physical activity and sedentary behaviors of the public, at large is of great concern.

Biography

Email: nico.vanmeeteren@tno.nl