I have not checked the record books, but my hunch is this July-September issue within volume 26 of the Journal of Hand Therapy (JHT) has more scholarly papers between its covers than any of the previous 25 volumes. This reflects our continued growth, and a new level of professional maturity within our hand rehabilitation specialty. Over the previous decades we have become a seasoned specialty by embracing our historical roots, applying a regular evidence-based fertilizer, and nourishing the science with clinical anecdotes that are readily digested.The seasoned international leaders in hand therapy creatively manifested this high level of maturity in their planning and implementing of the 9th Triennial Congress of the IFSHT held in New Delhi this past March via the theme of "knowledge translation." The meeting was successful in moving evidence into practice and practice into research. The host nation, India, was well represented. Regrettably, I was unable to attend, though I was lucky enough to be in contact with one of the leaders in hand therapy in India, Nandgaonkar Hemant, MSc (OT-Hand), who shared his impressions of the meeting, along with his perceptions of how hand therapy across the globe can be both similar and different. His response to my questions, transcribed below, punctuate for me the notion that those fortunate enough to have experienced our professional maturation over the years are the conduit through which knowledge translation must flow.
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