Previous congresses

Our first congress was held in 1953 in London, UK. Subsequent congresses were held approximately every four years to coincide with our general meeting.

Since 2017 we have held the congress every two years.

Our congresses have won major international awards. The World Physiotherapy Congress 2015 was recognised for excellence at the 2016 Singapore Tourism awards and the 2017 congress in Cape Town won an Incredible Impacts award.

Congress archive

Search our congress archive to find content from our congresses in 2019 and 2022.

The congress archive includes recordings of sessions and presentations, videos of opening and closing sessions, ePosters, abstract presentations - and more.

You can search the congress archive by topic, session type, presenter, congress year, key words.

Previous congresses

2021 online

Take a look at some of the sessions from our first online congress:

• Discussion session on Long COVID 
• World Physiotherapy outstanding platform presentation awardee
  • Edward James Gorgon: Redesigning care for spinal pain in an Australian hospital setting: a service evaluation to identify need for change (PL-01157)
• World Physiotherapy outstanding poster presentation awardee from the Europe region 
  • Christos Karagiannis, from Cyprus: Upper limbs exercise training and muscle strength in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review (PO-00610)

2019  Geneva, Switzerland

• Access the 2019 congress proceedings and view the programme

2017  Cape Town, South Africa

Watch video highlights of our first congress in Africa:

2015  Singapore
2011  Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007  Vancouver, Canada
2003  Barcelona, Spain
1999  Yokohama, Japan
1995  Washington DC, US
1991  London, UK
1987  Sydney, Australia
1982  Stockholm, Sweden
1978  Tel Aviv, Israel
1974  Montreal, Canada
1970  Amsterdam, Netherlands
1967  Melbourne, Australia
1963  Copenhagen, Denmark
1959  Paris, France
1956  New York, US
1953  London, UK