International Maitland Teachers Association - Question

[Matias]

Hallo!
I have question about maitland concept and certificate validity after this course over the world.
In almost all Europe we have IMTA, International maitland teachers association, and its very comfortable, you can start course for example in Spain and finish it in Hungary, because the schedule of studies is the same and they are part of IMTA. How about other countries? if somebody wants to work for example in US, New Zeland or Australia, does the course finished in Europe is still valid?

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[gcoe]

Hi Matias

In the Western countries courses run by bodies such as the International Maitland Teachers Association may have some respect as examples of continuing professional development. Often the manual therapy special interest groups of the professional associations run their own continuing professional development courses and some may prefer you to have completed these.

However none of these courses are considered a substitute for a post graduate degree (usually a masters degree) in orthopaedic manipulative physiotherapy - these types of courses run by university programmes are really the gold standard of expertise. A physio holding one of these qualifications will do better financially and have higher status. And I am sure that Geoffrey Maitland would agree with this as he was the first to offer such a postgraduate degree. as Uni of South Australia