Highlighting the Future of our Profession

The Student Rep. Committee will work closely with the Orthopaedic Division to continue to highlight the achievements of various students in MPT programs across Canada. Check out this months Student Profile for the full story. Read on for a sneak peak!

Born and raised in Japan, Kazunori Kikuchi’s path towards the study of physiotherapy at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) has been exciting and worldly. In addition to accepting the challenges of returning to school at the age of 34 with an active home life (with his wife and two young children), Kikuchi’s passion for physiotherapy has also started him on a personal initiative to fill a gap which he holds dear to his heart.

Reflecting on his years playing competitive soccer in Japan, Kikuchi comments on the differences in perspectives regarding physiotherapy across the globe. “I had multiple major injuries but I didn’t go to physiotherapy in Japan because I didn’t know about physiotherapy as a profession and simply there were no physiotherapy clinics available.” Kikuchi notes that the seminars, workshops and evidence-based research studies which fashioned his appreciation for physiotherapy were only exposed to him in his adult years while living in English-speaking communities. After learning English at the age of 20, Kikuchi is motivated to tackle the language barrier which prevents accessibility of these resources to Japanese therapists.

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