What does physical therapy look like beyond the U.S. healthcare system?
In this episode, Jimmy talks with Sidy Dieye, CEO of World Physiotherapy (https://world.physio/) , about how the global PT profession is evolving — and why U.S. clinicians should care.
World Physiotherapy represents 129 member organizations and over 600,000 physiotherapists worldwide.
Sidy shares:
• Why global collaboration is the profession’s greatest strength
• The workforce crisis in countries with only one trained physio per 10 million people
• How AI should be regulated and used as a tool — not feared as a replacement
• What “direct access” means in different healthcare systems
• Why the 2027 Congress in Guadalajara is more than a conference
• The 75th anniversary celebration honoring 75 transformative physios
This episode reinforces a powerful idea:
World Physiotherapy doesn’t belong to leadership — it belongs to the profession.
