While recently in Toronto, Canada, I was lucky enough to meet and interview Karen Yoshida, one of the first physiotherapists to engage in critical disability studies. Karen has been a CPN member since its inception. Karen K. Yoshida PhD is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science Institute, Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Social and Behavioural Science Division), Mentor, Collaborative Graduate Program in Women’s Health, University of Toronto You have had a very interesting career in physiotherapy, could you discuss the time when your work started to be ‘critical’? A number of events during the early 1980’s, when I was training as a physical … [Read more...] about Profile: Karen K. Yoshida
Entrevista: Amy Hiller
(Traduccion por Viviana Silva Guerrera - muchas gracias!) Amy Hiller ha sido miembro del CPN desde sus inicios y recientemente se presento en el foro crítico fisioterapia de la conferencia de la Asociación de Fisioterapia de Australia. Ella es fisioterapeuta musculoesquelética, investigadora cualitativa educadora. Amy es actualmente estudiante de doctorado de la Universidad de Melbourne, donde investiga la comunicación en fisioterapia. La entrevisté sobre su trabajo de doctorado. Como se interesó en explorar las interacciones paciente-fisioterapeuta para empezar? Siempre me ha gustado escuchar las historias de la gente y tratar de entender cada individuo y sus circunstancias únicas … [Read more...] about Entrevista: Amy Hiller
Interview: Amy Hiller
Amy Hiller has been a member of the CPN from its inception and she recently presented at the Critical Physiotherapy Forum at the Australian Physiotherapy Association conference. She is a musculoskeletal physiotherapist, a qualitative researcher and an educator. Amy is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne where she investigates communication in physiotherapy. I interviewed her about her PhD work. What got you interested in exploring patient-physiotherapist interactions to start with? I have always enjoyed listening to people’s stories and trying to understand each individual and their unique circumstances through my clinical work. It was, however, after my year … [Read more...] about Interview: Amy Hiller
El resquebrajamiento de la division discapacidad/normalidad
un blog escrito por A/Prof Barbara Gibson traduccion por Viviana Silva Guerrera (muchas gracias!!) Mi nuevo libro Rehabilitation: A post-critical approach (Rehabilitación: Un enfoque post-crítico) fue escrito para ayudar a los estudiantes de rehabilitación y practicantes a hacer vínculos entre la investigación crítica y lo que podría significar para la práctica. Un capítulo clave en el libro explora la forma como sociedad pensamos en "normalidad" como un estado preferido del ser, y cómo esto lo llevamos encima en nuestras prácticas de rehabilitación. Aquí proporciono una visión general de esta discusión. La normalización de las prácticas en la rehabilitación ayudan a sostener las … [Read more...] about El resquebrajamiento de la division discapacidad/normalidad
Disrupting the Disabled/Normal Divide
blog post by A/Prof Barbara Gibson My new book Rehabilitation: A Post-critical Approach was written to help rehabilitation students and practitioners make the links between the critical scholarship and what it might mean for practice. A key chapter in the book explores how as a society we think about ‘normal’ as a preferred state of being, and how this is carried over into our rehabilitation practices. Here I provide an overview of this discussion. Normalizing practices in rehabilitation help sustain negative attitudes towards disabled people and deny the richness of human diversity. In making this somewhat provocative statement my purpose is not to suggest that all rehabilitation … [Read more...] about Disrupting the Disabled/Normal Divide
Critical conferences and decolonising physiotherapy
A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to attend a critical health conference in South Africa. The group that runs the conference is the called International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP). Similar to our organisation, ISCHP “provides a forum for scrutinising, challenging and questioning what is said and done in the purported pursuit of promoting and improving ‘health’ by health psychologists and others”. ISCHP has a membership of around 800 people and its main activity as a society is to organise bi-annual conferences (the first was in 1999) and to moderate an active email list. The email list provides members with information about relevant employment, publishing, … [Read more...] about Critical conferences and decolonising physiotherapy
Physiotherapy, HIV and Stigma
David Nicholl’s recent blog posts on the awkward relationship between sex and physiotherapy made me think about another aspect of physiotherapy that may be affected by this issue. To work with me on this I contacted colleagues from the WCPT HIV/AIDS special interest group within the Network for HIV/AIDS, Oncology and Palliative Care. Physiotherapy, HIV and Stigma by Darren Brown (UK), Hellen Myezwa (South Africa), and Jenny Setchell (Australia) The purpose of this post is to highlight the stigma associated with HIV and its relevance in physiotherapy. This post also offers some resources for physiotherapists to increase their understanding of HIV and discusses possible ways forward for … [Read more...] about Physiotherapy, HIV and Stigma