About PTDOS

The PTDOS Story

PT Day of Service started with a simple question “What if?”

In February of 2012 while serving as a health volunteer in Peru, PT Day of Service (PTDOS) Co-Founder, Efosa Guobadia, had this bold and inspirational idea “What if, on the same day, clinicians, students and associated staff of the Physical Therapy profession volunteered in different communities around the world?” Efosa then sought out his colleague, Josh D’Angelo (PTDOS Co-Founder), who describes his immediate response to this initiative. “I had a visceral response, one that told me this is something we not only should do, but something we need to do; a chance for the profession to show what we can do when we all work together.”

Click here to read the full background on PTD OS the Co-Founders themselves.

Since its inception PTDOS has grown exponential with service projects occurring each year in countries all over the world, and in all 50 states across the United States. To our knowledge, PTDOS is the first global Day of Service coordinated by a whole profession. It gives us the chance to lead and serve at the same time.

Alongside the growth of PTDOS has been the development our parent non-profit organization, Move Together. Move Together’s mission is to increase access to quality rehabilitation medicine around the corner and around the world. Move Together aims to achieve this by increasing the quality and quantity of physical therapy clinics worldwide, empowering clinicians, and catalyzing servant leaders. PT Day of Service directly contributes to Move Togethers goals by empowering leaders with a platform to serve, providing mentorship to those interested in creating sustainable service projects in their area, and providing the opportunity to financially contribute through sponsorships.

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Our story of PTDOS now lives within the experiences of our participants and ambassador’s service projects and the impact upon those whom they serve. Check out some amazing past PT Day of Service projects below.

Mayangone, Myanmar

Myanmar Physiotherapy Development Foundation joined PTDOS for the third time to promote physical activity, evidence based and ethical physiotherapy services.

South Carolina, USA

GroupHab offered a wellness clinic with balance and fitness screening, posture and stretching clinic, chair yoga, and education for their community in Simpsonville, South Carolina.

Leogane, Haiti

Faculté des Sciences de Réhabilitation de Leogane held a pro-bono clinic for PTDOS 2018. It was a full day of physiotherapy assessment and treatment for the people of Leogane, Haiti.

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