About World Physical Therapy Day World Physical Therapy Day is held every year on 8th September, the day WCPT was founded in 1951.
It is a day when physical therapists can promote the profession, its work and:
• showcase the significant role the profession makes to the health and wellbeing of the global population
• raise the profile of the profession
• campaign on behalf of the profession and its patients/
clients to governments and policy makers. The day marks the unity and solidarity of the physical therapy community around the world. It is an opportunity to recognize the work that physical therapists do for their patients and community.
WCPT aims to support its member organizations and individual physical therapists in their efforts to promote the profession and advance global health, using World Physical Therapy Day as the focus.
