Jim Meadows, BScPT, MCPA, FCAMPT
Physiotherapist & Manual Therapy Educator
Jim Meadows is a physiotherapist and manual therapy educator with extensive experience in post-graduate orthopaedic physiotherapy education across Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manual and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapists (FCAMPT) and served as chair of the Canadian Orthopaedic Division’s Education and Specialization Committees for 12 years. He was also a past Examiner and Instructor with the Canadian Orthopaedic Division.
Jim founded Swodeam, an online repository of clinical essays on manual therapy and musculoskeletal physiotherapy. His essays are being preserved on Physical Therapy Web with his permission.
Credentials & Background
- BScPT — Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy
- FCAMPT — Fellow, Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapy
- MCPA — Member, Canadian Physiotherapy Association
- Chair, Canadian Orthopaedic Division Education and Specialization Committees (12 years)
- Past Examiner and Instructor, Canadian Orthopaedic Division
Books by Jim Meadows
Articles on Physical Therapy Web
- Measuring Pain
- VBI and the “5 Ds”: Dim, Dopey, Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest
- Vertebrobasilar Anatomy for Physical Therapists
- VBI and Dizziness: Clinical Guide for Physical Therapists
- Script Focused Deduction: Reasoning Like an Expert Clinician
- Clinical Reasoning: Methods and Tools
- Heuristics and Axioms in Clinical Reasoning for PTs
- Methods of Clinical Reasoning
- The Pathhoanatomical Diagnosis
- Locking and Specificity in Spinal Manipulation