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GEOFFREY MAITLAND IN MEMORIAN<br />
Australian Physiotherapy Association<br />
President, Pat Maher has<br />
expressed his great sympathy to<br />
the family of Geoffrey Maitland<br />
M.B.E.<br />
“Mr Maitland was an outstanding<br />
beacon for physiotherapy<br />
in Australia and internationally<br />
and his news of passing is met<br />
with deep sadness in the global<br />
physiotherapy community.”<br />
Born in South Australia, Mr<br />
Maitland pioneered manual therapy<br />
in Australia. He trained<br />
as a physiotherapist at the University<br />
of Adelaide and later became<br />
a clinical tutor at the South<br />
Australian physiotherapy school.<br />
Around this time he began to<br />
develop a special interest in the<br />
treatment of musculoskeletal<br />
disorders of the spine, and over<br />
time he became an international<br />
authority on the subject. He<br />
studied and travelled widely, and<br />
compiled knowledge from a wide<br />
variety of sources. He also made<br />
numerous first-hand clinical observations.<br />
As a result of all this<br />
he devised his own ‘Maitland’<br />
approach to manipulation which<br />
was subsequently adopted across<br />
the profession. Geoff Maitland<br />
became a substantial contributor<br />
to the “Australian Journal<br />
of Physiotherapy” as well as to<br />
other medical and physiotherapy<br />
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journals world wide. He was one<br />
of the cofounders, in 1974, of the<br />
International Federation of Orthopedic<br />
Manipulative Physical<br />
Therapists (IFOMPT), a bransch<br />
of the World Confederation of<br />
Physiotherapy (WCPT).<br />
Mr Maher said “The vast majority<br />
of Australians who have seen<br />
a physiotherapist for back pain in<br />
the last forty years will have been<br />
treated with a technique developed<br />
by Geoffrey Maitland. His<br />
commitment to our profession,<br />
innovation, professional and academic<br />
success have all become<br />
cornerstones of modern physiotherapy<br />
practice.”<br />
Mr Maitland passed away on peacefully<br />
on Friday January 22nd<br />
<strong>2010</strong> aged 86.<br />
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