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Physical Therapy profession has been tied for years with “natural therapy” because physical therapy uses mainly physical elements as therapeutic means i.e. heat, cold, movement, massage etc… Further more and over the years, the profession has been enriched with new therapeutic methods and techniques that aimed at decreasing and controlling pain as well as at rehabilitating patient’s physical capacities by minimizing side effects of trauma and handicaps, allowing patients reach optimal individual independence. Despite the advantages of this scientific improvement, lots of questions have been raised and can be summarized with the following: 1- Are innovation and development of new therapeutic methods have entered the physical therapy profession in a kind of chaos and made way for its commercialization? 2- Is it true that some of the recently developed therapeutic methods have raised lots of professional contradictions? 3- What is the truth behind the incompatibility between the new techniques and evidence-based practice? Are the newly developed methods of treatment based on scientific evidence? 4- Is it true that physical therapy has moved away from its roots? 5- What are the benefits of linking education, research, management, marketing and prevention with therapy? 6- What is the role of “aesthetic physical therapy”? Did it help decrease the seriousness and professionalism of the profession? 7- Are the “traditional” therapeutic methods safer and more efficient than the new ones? 8- Is electrotherapy really beneficial despite the fact that clinical guidelines raised doubt about its therapeutic efficiency because evidence is still not available and strong in this field? All these questions and many others will be discussed and answered during the forth coming international meeting organized by the Order of Physical Therapists in Beirut, Lebanon, for the period of September 26- 27, 2009, and entitled:
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