The idea that most grabbed people's attention during last week's 1st critical physiotherapy course was slow physiotherapy (you can listen back to the full talk here). Slow physiotherapy - like the slow food and slow TV movements - would be a reaction to the hyperkinetic life that we're now all leading. But more than that, it would force us to focus more on exactly how pervasive questions of time and speed are in physiotherapy today. Paul Virilio - the philosopher we looked at last week - coined the term dromology to refer to the study of speed and time and, especially, how speeded up our lives increasingly feel. Virilio was concerned with the way technology had collapsed the time … [Read more...] about Slow physiotherapy
CPN Digest #24
Something for the weekend: Self-regulated learning in physical therapy education (article) New emojis including a wheelchair user, bionic arm and guide dog (magazine) Normality: A Critical Genealogy (book review) Creating ‘automatic subjects’: Corporate wellness and self-tracking (article) Individualising difference, negotiating culture: Intersections of culture and care (article) The body language of place: A new method for mapping intergenerational “geographies of embodiment” in place-health research (article) Motivation for movement: Influences for walking event participation (article) The digital academic: Critical perspectives on digital technologies in higher … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #24
Listen back to the 1st seminar in the Critical Physiotherapy Course
Thanks to everyone who participated today. Here's a recording of the 1st seminar in the Critical Physiotherapy Course presented by Dave Nicholls on The Architecture of Movement. Audio recording And here are the full The architecture of movement annotated notes from the talk. The 2nd talk in this year's series will be given by Anna Rajala at 20:00 GMT on 21 March and is titled What's "critical" about critical physiotherapy? Max Horkheimer and the idea of Critical Theory. Anna is one of the rising stars of critical physiotherapy, so this is going to be a talk not to be missed. See you all in a month's time. … [Read more...] about Listen back to the 1st seminar in the Critical Physiotherapy Course
This week – The 1st of our 2019 Critical Physiotherapy Course series
This week brings us the first of this year's inaugural Critical Physiotherapy Courses. You can find the details of the course content and times here. The link to attend the course is here. Simply paste this link into your web browser at the right time and you'll be able to join us. The course is free and can be used for your continuing professional development. The course will be recorded and available on this site in full the next day if you can't attend 'in person'. Looking forward to seeing you at the end of the week. A/Prof Dave Nicholls … [Read more...] about This week – The 1st of our 2019 Critical Physiotherapy Course series
CPN Digest #23
Something for the weekend: Managing the (In)visibility of Chronic Illness at Work (article) My job as a doctor in today's NHS is draining me of humanity (magazine) Listening to Patients’ Voices: Workarounds Patients Use to Construct Pain Intensity Ratings (article) The invigorating strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche (magazine) Facilitation of a Person-Centered Approach in Health Assessment of patients with chronic pain (article) Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation (book review) Heideggerian Phenomenology, Practical Ontologies and the Link Between Experience and Practices (article) The Lives of Michel Foucault republished by Verso, with a new … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #23
Can you teach physiotherapists to be empathic?
There has been a lot of talk in recent years about the capabilities that health professionals will need in the future. This is partly because the sheer economics of future healthcare will mean that other ways of delivering routine tasks - those that once required extensive training and expensively employed specialists to deliver them - will be given managed by smart machines, wearables, robotics and AI. A friend of mine was saying the other day that she recently sat with her elderly mother in hospital for two weeks during a bout of illness, and during that time only two of the nurses actually took time to build a relationship with them. The others just came in to do things to her: … [Read more...] about Can you teach physiotherapists to be empathic?
CPN Digest #22
Something for the weekend: Public dissection was a gruesome spectacle (magazine) Bodies Beyond Borders. Moving Anatomies 1750-1950 (book review) Galvani's voltaic pile c.1800 (image) Michel Foucault: The Order of Things (hagiography) How Should We Read the Totalitarian Philosophers? (blog) Medical Cadaver Dissection, Power, and Inequality in the United States (blog) Remembering Gary Gutting (blog) Heideggerian Phenomenology, Practical Ontologies and the Link Between Experience and Practices (article) Five warning signs of overdiagnosis (magazine) Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation (article) Health Check: do we really need to take 10,000 … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #22