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 congress in 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 since 2019.
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
2025 Tokyo, Japan
2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Congress report 2023 - participants: view the infographic
- Congress report 2023 - exhibitors: view the infographic
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
- World Physiotherapy outstanding poster presentation awardee from the Europe region
2019 Geneva, Switzerland
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
