I completed my BPhty Hons at The National University of Colombia in 2000. My interest in the arts, especially dance, inspired me to modify the LABAN Dance Program (MODERN EDUCATIONAL DANCE) and use it as a tool for motor development in children between the ages of 7-9 years which became my honours project. Implemented in one of the poorest and most violent areas of Bogota, Colombia, one of the world’s largest mega-slums called Ciudad Bolivar, this project was able to improve not only the motor development but also improve both cognitive and social skills of the children living there. With its success, I wanted to take the program further and implement it on a larger scale, however, after … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 8 – Alma Viviana Silva Guerrero
30DoS 2018 Day 7 – Filip Maric
Being equally passionate about eastern and western philosophy, physiotherapy, other healthcare traditions, martial arts, and a lot more, my interests in critical physiotherapy are quite varied. They do however all converge on my interest in exploring and leading a good, happy and healthy life, and supporting others in doing so. In my personal and professional research and practice over the last few years, I have focused on how a number of philosophies and practices can contribute to this. In particular, these are the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Hadot’s philosophy as a way of life and its philosophical practices, Zen, Buddhism and other eastern spiritual traditions, the … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 7 – Filip Maric
CPN Digest #3
Something for the weekend: Trees are made of human breath (link) How women led the rise of professional work in Australia (link) Why is it important to refuse the idea of treating students like customers? (link) Standing at a Critical Nexus in the Evolution of Physiotherapy (link) Should nurses fill the hole in future primary care (link)? The brain as an agentic system (link) Going beyond RCTs in Cochrane's vision of health care (link) A €5,000 prize for best essay on the topic of 'Interdisciplinarity: the new orthodoxy?' (link) 4th Qualitative Health Research Network (QHRN) Conference| 21-22 March 2019| London, UK (link) Why are chronic illnesses increasing … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #3
30DoS 2018 Day 6 – Jenny Wickford
I am Swedish by passport, but my heart is nomadic. This state of being has defined my professional journey. I have been working in the physiotherapy field since 2003, in Sweden, Afghanistan, and the United Arab Emirates, in private and public contexts, with humanitarian work and in universities. My interest clinically is pain, in particular, pelvic/abdominal pain and dysfunction, women's pelvic health and global health. I am also interested in other aspects that relate to this in various ways. I am fascinated by how people interact and work together, especially interculturally. I love teaching and inspiring others to think about their work from different angles. I have had the opportunity … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 6 – Jenny Wickford
30DoS 2018 Day 5 – Irena Paiuk
My current fields of interest are medical education, somaesthetics, the importance of self and body awareness in the professional development of physiotherapy students, developing interpersonal sensitivity & empathy & non-verbal communication through the practice of contact-improvisation classes during physiotherapy education. In my clinical practice, I am interested in the field of breathing pattern disorders and their relationship to movement dysfunction, movement qualities, and chronic pain conditions. I am deeply interested in implementing LBMS (Laban Bartenieff Movement Studies) and Contact - Improvisation in Physical Therapy, with the purpose of enhancing communicational … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 5 – Irena Paiuk
30DoS 2018 Day 4 – Bhanu Ramaswamy
I am an Independent Physiotherapy Consultant based in Sheffield, a northern city in the United Kingdom. I have also held an honorary role as a Visiting Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University since 2010. My career until that point had been heavily biased toward clinical practice, and then standard setting since qualifying in 1988. It was the undertaking and completion of a Doctorate and involvement in research that started turning my interests towards a more shared understanding between the ‘patient’ and myself as a clinician. My areas of specialism are in elder rehabilitation and neurology, particularly working with people affected by Parkinson's. Co-producing my doctoral project with others … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 4 – Bhanu Ramaswamy
30DoS 2018 Day 3 – Anne Marit Mengshoel
My name is Anne Marit Mengshoel. I am educated as a physiotherapist with a speciality in manual therapy. For about ten years, I was working in a private physiotherapy institute in primary health care, and then afterwards about 15 years in a hospital specialized in rheumatology as a teacher for physiotherapy students, PhD student and leader of developmental work within physiotherapy. Since, the year 2000 I have been working in the Department of Health Sciences at the Medical Faculty of the University of Oslo, Norway – the last 15 years as a Professor. My research is inspired by my clinical work experiences as a manual therapist in primary health care and as a physiotherapist in a … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 3 – Anne Marit Mengshoel