It is almost 40 years since I became an occupational therapist. I was a student in Liverpool and then a clinician, first in a large university teaching hospital in Oxford, then in a regional rehabilitation centre in Saskatchewan, Canada, and subsequently in a rural area of Saskatchewan. After some years in this role I decided to upgrade my education, so returned to the UK, and the University of Southampton, to undertake an MSc in Rehabilitation Studies. It was here that I met the work of critical disability theorists, such as Oliver and Barnes, whose work resonated so strongly with my own experiences of living and working with disabled people that I can recall sitting up in bed, reading … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 24 – Karen Whalley Hammell
30DoS 2018 Day 23 – Thomas Abrams
I’ve never taken things particularly seriously, either academically or living with muscular dystrophy. Having stumbled into physio—literally, I kept falling over, so they made me go—I started thinking sociologically while in the waiting room. I found that I could do two things at once, picking apart my personal experience of disability while poking holes in the Serious Science of Physical Therapy. Why all this goal setting, why all this paperwork? I had been reading a lot of critical theory, you know, Foucault, Heidegger, and the like, without a place to make sense of it. Though I had never really thought of myself as a disabled person, as I started going through the disability … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 23 – Thomas Abrams
30DoS 2018 Day 22 – Lester Jones
Hi everyone. My name is Lester Jones and I am a pain physiotherapist and educator. I have spent a long time at university and in the clinic exploring human health and behaviour including 4 years of psychology and a Masters degree in pain. If I had been driven in a different way, I would have spent that time doing a PhD - thankfully I wasn't - but now I find myself back at university doing just that with the amazing research group at Judith Lumley Centre. In my research, I am interested in the multiple dimensions of pain and how we can work with the complexity in different contexts. I was the inaugural chair of the APA National Pain Group and currently, I am on the committee for the … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 22 – Lester Jones
CPN Digest #5
Something for the weekend: First World War rehabilitation (eBook) A favorite anecdote about the origins of the vibrator is probably a myth (magazine) Neurological illness, loss and disruption (article) Digital Subjectivity and Mediated Intimacy (event) To fix higher education, we also need to fix vocational (magazine) The Commission on Social Determinants of Health: Ten years on (article) Impact from critical research: what might it look like and what support is required? (blog) Human-machine reconfigurations (book review) The Place of Post-Traumatic Amnesia in the Assessment of Blunt Head Trauma 1920–40 (article) Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #5
30DoS 2018 Day 21 – Anna Rajala
I have a background in dancing which was my original reason to study physiotherapy. I graduated in 2008 after which I found a new inspiration in geriatric physiotherapy. I had a very inspiring philosophy teacher at secondary school (or lukio in Finnish) and ever since I’ve had a fascination with philosophical thinking (fun fact: every Finnish lukio student has to take at least one philosophy course). The fascination has proved incurable, at least ever since I met my philosophical “enabler” and revolutionary soul mate who introduced me to dialectics from Hegel to Adorno. In 2011 we packed our belongings (mostly books) in a cheap van a moved from Finland to the UK, where I have finally been … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 21 – Anna Rajala
30DoS 2018 Day 20 – Guillaume Christe
I am is a physiotherapist specialized in musculoskeletal disorders and I work at the Department of Physiotherapy, Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud (HESAV) in Switzerland and in private practice. In 2010, I did a specialization in Manual Therapy and finished an MSc in Physiotherapy at Brighton University in 2015. I am currently doing a PhD on the association between spinal motor behaviour and psychological factors in CLBP patients. I am also doing research examining beliefs about back pain in Switzerland. As an educator, I am particularly interested in helping students to be better critical thinkers, and I love challenge their beliefs about physiotherapy. Particularly, I try to shift their focus … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 20 – Guillaume Christe
Submit your work to the new Critical Research and Perspectives section of the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation
This message comes from CPN members Barbara Gibson and Jenny Setchell - co-editors of the new Critical Research and Perspectives section of the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation. Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please consider submitting an article to the new section on Critical Research and Perspectives in the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation. For those of you who don’t know the journal, it is an online, open access, no fee, multimedia platform for research, scholarship, art, literature, and narrative that bring the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences to all things rehabilitation. The Critical section is devoted to research and ‘perspectives’ that draw … [Read more...] about Submit your work to the new Critical Research and Perspectives section of the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation