A Person-Centred and Collaborative Model for Understanding Chronic Pain Perspectives from a Pain Patient, a Practitioner, and a Philosopher Christine Price, Matthew Low, Rani Lill Anjum The practice of physiotherapy does not happen in a philosophical vacuum. While the idea of an ‘evidence-based’ healthcare might have immediate appeal, what this means in practice relies heavily on what we think of as causal evidence. Within the evidence-based framework, ‘evidence’ largely refers to statistical evidence, preferably from randomized controlled trials, linking one type of intervention to a therapeutic effect. What works on group level, however, does not easily transfer to the individual. … [Read more...] about The 2nd free online Critical Physiotherapy Course is in 2 weeks
Details of all the upcoming Critical Physiotherapy Courses for 2020
18th June, 9am (CET) - Christine Price, Matt Low and Rani Lill Anjum 16th July, 8pm (CET) - Dave Nicholls and Jon Nicholls 13th August, 8pm (CET) - Patty Thille, Tobba Sudmann, and Arthur Frank 10th September, 9pm (CET) - Viviana Silva and Wendy Lowe 15th October, 9am (CET) - Karen Synne Groven and Tone Dahl-Michelsen More information will follow two weeks before the session. Sign up to be a CPN member if you'd like email notifications. To convert to your local time, click here. … [Read more...] about Details of all the upcoming Critical Physiotherapy Courses for 2020
Is all movement ‘good’ movement?
How do you judge if one movement is good and another bad? Many claim that movement is the core of physiotherapy 1, 2, 3. But how far is the profession prepared to go to justify its claim to be experts in movement? Presumably, no-one would dispute that the improved diffusion of oxygen through the pulmonary interstitial space of a COVID-19 sufferer is good. And we can celebrate those that made that possible. But what about the movement of air in a black man’s throat, or the movement of the knee of the police officer that killed him? What about the lack of movement of the people who stood around and watched him die? Is the movement of a thousand protesters good movement, even … [Read more...] about Is all movement ‘good’ movement?
CPN Digest #90
Something for the weekend: CfP: OpenPhysio: Towards a new normal in physiotherapy educationThe Physiotherapy and Refugees Education Project Feedback for learning projectThe healing power of gardensParticipatory training in disability and migration: mobilizing community capacities for advocacyShow but don’t tell: why silent Zooms are golden for focusing the mindPopulist and Democratic Biopolitics in Times of COVID-19Walking as transgenerational methodologyNo One Disagrees With Rebecca SolnitProgress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3Roy Porter on Science, Medicine and the ‘Decline of Magic’Trans-species health: An aesthetic responsibilityLife as Experienced Within and Through the Body … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #90
CPN Digest #89
Something for the weekend: Fitness 101: Our Guide to Working Out From HomeA Brief Criminal History of the MaskAmericans tend to see disease as a personal failure. That’s a terrible way of thinking about it.Digital technology and race equityA Brain Implant Restored This Man's Motion and Sense of TouchMedicine: A Graphic HistoryGoogle’s medical AI was super accurate in a lab. Real life was a different story.Truth, trust and research in health and social careThe market and ‘the making’: the economics of the first workers’ associations in nineteenth-century SwedenUsing Foucault: Genealogy, Governmentality and the Problem of Chronic IllnessGymnasiumThe Politics of Nature, Left and Right: … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #89
Watch last week’s Critical Physiotherapy Course in full (+resources)
We're very excited to be able to share the full video and resources from last weeks free, online Critical Physiotherapy Course. We had 80 people online for the talk, and it generated a lot of thought-provoking conversation. There are two videos below: An introduction and the talk from Anne Langaas and Anne-Lise Middelton (40 mins)The follow-up Q+A (40 mins) Below the videos, we've also attached a pdf of the slides, and an excerpt from the chapter the talk is based upon. … [Read more...] about Watch last week’s Critical Physiotherapy Course in full (+resources)
Follow up to 1st Critical Physiotherapy Course for 2020
We had a fantastic opening session in this year's Critical Physiotherapy Course late last week. Just over 80 people tuned in to hear Anne Lagaas and Anne-Lise Middelthon talk about their chapter in our upcoming book Mobilizing knowledge. Anne and Anne-Lise talked about the ways that we learn to move our bodies as physiotherapists through our work with clients/patients. There is almost no research on this in the physiotherapy literature. But we all instinctively know that so much of our practice is embodied in skilled, tacit ways of moving and being. So their work is really groundbreaking. Imagine how we could help our students (and ourselves?) to become better practitioners if we … [Read more...] about Follow up to 1st Critical Physiotherapy Course for 2020