13/03/2025                                                                            
                                    
                                                                            
                                            In this   interview, Cheryl Koehn, ACE’s Founder and President, speaks with Ms. Julie Herrington, an Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner with ACPAC (Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Arthritis Care) training working with the pediatric and young adult rheumatology teams at McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. 
In her discussion with Cheryl, she shares highlights from her two posters. The first poster looked at an advanced physiotherapist practitioner’s level of safety performing juvenile idiopathic arthritis care. They compared quality and standards of care, safety, and performance indicators between patients receiving advanced physiotherapist practitioner care with those in the PR-COIN Registry. PR-COIN is a collaborative community where patients, parents, clinicians, and researchers work together to improve the health and care of children and youth with rheumatic conditions. The study found that those in the first group received very similar level of care than those in the second group – this would hopefully help alleviate the stress on healthcare team members in rheumatology care.  
The second poster highlights parents and teens’ feedback about their satisfaction with the advanced physiotherapist practitioner model of care in pediatric rheumatology. The study found that satisfaction level is high. The parents and teens felt that appointments were thorough and valuable. 
Watch now: https://youtu.be/Y29L37IzrJI 
               
Canadian Physiotherapy Association/Association canadienne de physiothérapie 
Arthritis Society Canada 
Arthritis Consumer Experts 
Cassie + Friends Society 
Take a Pain Check 
McMaster University 
University of Toronto