Hello! My name is Amy Hiller, I am an Australian musculoskeletal physiotherapist and qualitative researcher. Currently, I am on 'maternity leave', having recently completed my PhD titled 'Toward relationship-centred care: patient-physiotherapist interaction in private practice' at the University of Melbourne. The CPN became a valued support network during my PhD studies as I particularly enjoy meeting other physiotherapists who are interested in sociological and qualitative aspects of practice, particularly those relating to patient-physiotherapist interaction. A highlight of my involvement thus far was being part of an inaugural critical physiotherapy forum at the Australian … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 2 – Amy Hiller
30DoS 2018 Day 1 – Bruce Greenfield
Bruce Greenfield Greetings to all members of the CPN. My name is Bruce Greenfield and I am currently a Professor in Physical Therapy and Senior Fellow in the Center for Ethics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I was born and raised in New York but moved to Atlanta in 1972. I have been married for 35 years and have 3 children and 4 grandchildren ( yes I am getting old!). I am an avid reader (for anyone who can recommend a good book) and a not so avid runner, but I do my best. I graduated from physical therapy school at Emory University way back in 1981. I have a master’s degree in medical science and bioethics, and a PhD in Higher Education. For the first 15 years of my … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 1 – Bruce Greenfield
CPN Digest #2
Something for the weekend: A curated list of treasures from this week around the Internet, for the physio with an inquiring mind. How women led the rise of professional work in the Australian economy (link) The horror of WWI transformed the way we think about art, and that changed everything (link) Education’s latest secret trend: Networking (link) A very detailed bibliography of writings on and by Foucault relating to education (link) Beyond skills: Preparing College Students for Life and Work (link) Learning from nature: A humming, complex, clockwork machine (link) Is the Internet making you dumb? Have you lost the "cognitive patience" for big ideas? (link) How … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #2
30 Days of September is back, and starts tomorrow
Every year that the CPN has been in existence, we've run a month-long campaign called 30 Days of September (or 30DoS for short). The idea of the campaign is to promote the Network and to engage our members. We've run some really fun campaigns in the past, posting a poll each day in 2014, asking members what the new CPN should focus on. That led us to writing our first collaborative article (link), our first CPN gathering in Mallorca, and a set of objectives for the group translated into more than a dozen languages. Our campaign in 2015 focused on 30 new ways to think about physiotherapy, and 2016's showed you some of the great thinkers that had influenced our CPN members. Last … [Read more...] about 30 Days of September is back, and starts tomorrow
Something for the weekend – a new CPN Digest
This is a bit of a new venture. During the week I come across long-form articles and pieces that are too long or interesting to warrant a brief post on Twitter or Facebook but would be too numerous to blog about. So, following Nursing Clio's Sunday Morning Medicine weekly post, I'm going to trial a weekly post with readings that you might enjoy over the weekend. The posts will all relate in some way to critical physiotherapy, so if you come across material that you think would be good to add to the list, drop me a line (david.nicholls@aut.ac.nz). Here's this week's list: Carol Collins Cole's recollections of working with polio in the 1950s and 60s (link) Think you know what … [Read more...] about Something for the weekend – a new CPN Digest
Stating the obvious
I teach on a postgraduate paper that gets students from all sorts of health disciplines to think about themselves as health professionals, their professions, and the ‘others’ that they work with. We use a lot of activities to get the students to reflect on their practice and some of these activities can be really challenging. Students do photo essays, write letters of appreciation, design practice models, and explore critical incidents, but perhaps the most interesting activity involves them taking something every day and obvious and making it strange. We ask the students to identify something about their practice that might otherwise be taken-for-granted, and get them to tell us … [Read more...] about Stating the obvious
The first ever Free Critical Physiotherapy Online Course is coming
We've been planning to run a free online course on thinking critically about physiotherapy for some years, but now we are happy to announce that it has finally come to fruition. A team of CPN members have been thinking about the kind of course that we would want for months now, and we have taken our time to try to develop a program that we think you will find interesting and exciting. The course is grounded in practical, everyday physiotherapy challenges, but uses the experience of physiotherapists who have a deep knowledge of theory and philosophy to expand on the ways we currently think about these situations and issues. Is autonomy really a good thing for physiotherapists? … [Read more...] about The first ever Free Critical Physiotherapy Online Course is coming