In this blogpost, Dr Mario Elia talks about the reasons he supports referral to physiotherapy. I’ve re-blogged it here not because he waves a flag for physiotherapy – which is all well and good – but that he portrays physiotherapy as a safe pair of hands: consistent, predictable and reliable.
“When I refer a patient to physiotherapy, for the most part I know exactly what my patients are getting into.”
While this might be the fantasy of our regulatory bodies, part of me wonders if being so conservative is such a great thing in the 21st century. Is there something about the embodied, sensual nature of health and illness that is elided when you have a strong, dependable professional identity? Is there space for a form of physiotherapy practice that is more fluid and less ‘foundational,’ more passionate and less constrained; more about desire and less about discipline?
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