To build an environment in which physiotherapists and other interested professionals (and experts) can interact to promote and enhance physical and educational cardiopulmonary care for acute and chronic conditions within specific boundaries in order to stimulate growth in its members to be leaders in the cardiopulmonary rehabilitation field.

We strive to:

• Establish a reliable evidence-based knowledge base for cardiopulmonary patient assessment and care.
• Stay abreast of changes (based on research) in the cardiopulmonary care field and update documents as needed.
• Evaluate the scientific merit of research published as well as ethical issues relating to cardiopulmonary physiotherapy patient care on a regular basis.
• Promote learning in our members through discussion evenings, lectures, and interaction with other professions, establishing/maintaining national and international relationships with other individuals and organisations with similar interests.
• Act in the best interest of:
  • Patients that receive physiotherapy for cardiopulmonary conditions
  • Members of the CPRG at all times
  • Physiotherapy as a profession
• Act in financially sustainable ways.
• Complying with the regulations of the SASP and the HPCSA.
  

  Best practice guidelines for the use of manual chest clearance techniques During recent years there has been increasing debate and confusion about the use of manual chest therapy clearance techniques amongst South African physiotherapists. Some omit this treatment modality altogether even in instances where cardiopulmonary patients could have benefited clinically. Others use manual chest therapy techniques for all cardiopulmonary patients disregarding the fact that it may be detrimental to some of their patients. The Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Group of the South African Society of Physiotherapy therefore decided to review the available literature on manual chest therapy clearance techniques and to draw up this best practice guideline in an attempt to clarify some of the above issues. A literature search was done on PubMed to identify articles pertaining to cardiopulmonary physiotherapy. In addition, reference lists of identified articles were reviewed and textbooks written by cardiopulmonary physiotherapy experts were consulted.

 For more information, look under Latest Articles / Documents on the home page, the title of the document is "CPRG Guidelines".