Without wanting to sound too dramatic, my first experience of hosting yesterday's @physiotalk tweet chat felt like running with the bulls at Pamplona! It certainly was exhilarating. And what it also threw up were some thoughts about how physios currently relate to philosophy. Just to recap, I was asked to run a Physiotalk tweet chat last week on the subject of philosophy and physiotherapy. I prepared some pre-reading and some questions to prompt discussion (you can see these here), and then logged on at the appointed time to facilitate the discussion. Tweets fly in thick and fast and it's quite a job to keep on top of everything that's going on, but the hour flew by and a lot of … [Read more...] about Philosophy and physiotherapy – reflections on @physiotalk tweet chat
Embodiment, pain and disability – the latest edition of Qualitative Inquiry
Hot on the heels of yesterday's @physiotalk Tweet-chat about philosophy and physiotherapy, comes the latest edition of Qualitative Inquiry. For those of you who don't know it, QI has a strong focus on innovative and experimental qualitative material (follow this link to visit the journal's website). This month's edition focuses on the life and work of Laurel Richardson - a major force in areas like autoethnography (where the researcher's experience becomes the data) and creative writing as a research process. The papers are all about embodiment, pain and disability and have real application to physiotherapy practice. Ronald J. Berger, Carla Corroto and Julie White (2014). … [Read more...] about Embodiment, pain and disability – the latest edition of Qualitative Inquiry
Connectivity – new book
Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age - A Manifesto Networkologies is the first text to develop an entire new philosophy based upon networks. While many contemporary texts on networks have presented critiques or analyses of network formations in our world, this book is the first to develop an entirely new worldview based on the structure of networks themselves. From global capitalism to artificial minds, evolutionary biology to quantum physics, networks are our future. Networkologies presents us with a new image of thought for our hyperconnected age. More information here. c/0 Filip Maric. … [Read more...] about Connectivity – new book
Connectivity – Contributions from the Network #4 – Barbara Gibson
Thanks to everyone who sent me comments and thoughts on the Connectivity writing project. Over the next few days I'll post up some of the feedback and thoughts that these pieces. Remember to send comments on these things too and I'll pull them all together. This post came from Barbara Gibson - Associate Professor, in the Department of Physical Therapy at University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist at Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto. I am hoping that as a critical group we can use this as a point of departure to delve a little more into the philosophical approach(es) that underpin these ideas. In particular, drawing out the … [Read more...] about Connectivity – Contributions from the Network #4 – Barbara Gibson
Report on 1st meeting of the Critical Physio Network Organising Committee
We had the first meeting of the Critical Physiotherapy Network Organising Committee (neatly abbreviated to CPN-OC). You'll remember we had six fabulously enthusiastic volunteers: Barbara Gibson (Canada), Jenny Setchell (Australia), Nicky Wilson & Gwyn Owen (UK), Simon Kirkegaard (Denmark), with me - Dave Nicholls (New Zealand) - in the Chair. The plan for the first meeting was to get the video conferencing software to work (why is it that the technology is always the biggest stress!), and to meet each other. I thought that if we could just achieve that, we would have achieved something quite momentous. I'm pleased to say we did achieve our objective, but with only minutes to … [Read more...] about Report on 1st meeting of the Critical Physio Network Organising Committee
Confirmation bias, physiotherapy and the highlighter pen – a blog post by Alan Taylor
If you get a chance, take a look at this new blog post by CPN member Alan Taylor. http://alteredhaemodynamics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/confirmation-bias-physiotherapy-and.html … [Read more...] about Confirmation bias, physiotherapy and the highlighter pen – a blog post by Alan Taylor
Connectivity – Contributions from the Network #3 – Andreas Bjerregaard
Today's post comes from Andreas Bjerregaard who is a physiotherapist and personal trainer in Copenhagen. As well as running his own clinic and being a FIFA 11+ instructor, Andreas volunteers his physio skills for the Homeless World Cup. Andreas blogs about his work here. I work on how people can change the lives of homeless people through football. Right now the tournament (www.homelessworldcup.org) is being hosted in Santiago, Chile. I am part of a physiotherapy team from Denmark and Norway who are treating players from all over the world. On busy day we would have 150-200 treatments with all kinds of injuries: dislocated fingers and shoulders, broken bones, major acute ligaments … [Read more...] about Connectivity – Contributions from the Network #3 – Andreas Bjerregaard