Disruptive and undetermined events continue to give a new outlook to industries including that of healthcare, failure to continuously renew and standardize approaches among organized professions in healthcare like Physiotherapy will continue to give more power to alternative health market places, widen the knowledge practice gap, reduce professional prestige and policy protection, slow down innovation, expand inter and intra-professional conflicts, and increase health system inefficiencies. In the light of these challenges, it is becoming clear that physiotherapists need to as well engage in a critically informed discussion to match the present practice of physiotherapy to that of the future thereby transcending boundaries through creative thinking. Providing road map to building the future physiotherapist, this paper will therefore attempt to address critical avenues like that of professionalism/corporate culture, alternative health market places, ever-changing health policies (including commercialization), knowledge practice gap, professional prestige, technological advancements, inter and intra-professional conflicts, rising patients expectations, perception of the health system as inefficient, also threat and benefit from an increasingly aging population.

Keywords: professions, physiotherapy, creative thinking