A Person-Centred and Collaborative Model for Understanding Chronic Pain Perspectives from a Pain Patient, a Practitioner, and a Philosopher Christine Price, Matthew Low, Rani Lill Anjum The practice of physiotherapy does not happen in a philosophical vacuum. While the idea of an ‘evidence-based’ healthcare might have immediate appeal, what this means in practice relies heavily on what we think of as causal evidence. Within the evidence-based framework, ‘evidence’ largely refers to statistical evidence, preferably from randomized controlled trials, linking one type of intervention to a therapeutic effect. What works on group level, however, does not easily transfer to the individual. … [Read more...] about The 2nd free online Critical Physiotherapy Course is in 2 weeks
Details of all the upcoming Critical Physiotherapy Courses for 2020
18th June, 9am (CET) - Christine Price, Matt Low and Rani Lill Anjum 16th July, 8pm (CET) - Dave Nicholls and Jon Nicholls 13th August, 8pm (CET) - Patty Thille, Tobba Sudmann, and Arthur Frank 10th September, 9pm (CET) - Viviana Silva and Wendy Lowe 15th October, 9am (CET) - Karen Synne Groven and Tone Dahl-Michelsen More information will follow two weeks before the session. Sign up to be a CPN member if you'd like email notifications. To convert to your local time, click here. … [Read more...] about Details of all the upcoming Critical Physiotherapy Courses for 2020
Watch last week’s Critical Physiotherapy Course in full (+resources)
We're very excited to be able to share the full video and resources from last weeks free, online Critical Physiotherapy Course. We had 80 people online for the talk, and it generated a lot of thought-provoking conversation. There are two videos below: An introduction and the talk from Anne Langaas and Anne-Lise Middelton (40 mins)The follow-up Q+A (40 mins) Below the videos, we've also attached a pdf of the slides, and an excerpt from the chapter the talk is based upon. … [Read more...] about Watch last week’s Critical Physiotherapy Course in full (+resources)
Follow up to 1st Critical Physiotherapy Course for 2020
We had a fantastic opening session in this year's Critical Physiotherapy Course late last week. Just over 80 people tuned in to hear Anne Lagaas and Anne-Lise Middelthon talk about their chapter in our upcoming book Mobilizing knowledge. Anne and Anne-Lise talked about the ways that we learn to move our bodies as physiotherapists through our work with clients/patients. There is almost no research on this in the physiotherapy literature. But we all instinctively know that so much of our practice is embodied in skilled, tacit ways of moving and being. So their work is really groundbreaking. Imagine how we could help our students (and ourselves?) to become better practitioners if we … [Read more...] about Follow up to 1st Critical Physiotherapy Course for 2020
The Critical Physiotherapy Course 2020
The first free, online Critical Physiotherapy Course for 2020 returns on 14/15 May Anne Langaas & Anne-Lise Middelthon - Bodily ways of knowing This session will dig deep into Anne and Anne-Lise's chapter for the upcoming book Mobilizing knowledge, due out at the end of the year. Here is the abstract for the book. The introduction to the book is also attached below. This chapter explores how students of physiotherapy learn about and through a myriad of bodies. We propose that there is such a thing as a competent physiotherapeutic body and that there are distinctive ways of acquiring this body. We consider elements of physiotherapy education that, despite … [Read more...] about The Critical Physiotherapy Course 2020
The 2nd fully free and open Critical Physiotherapy Course is back for 2020!
The course was your biggest priority for 2020 in last year's 30DoS campaign, so here it is.And this year is going to be particularly special.We're tying the course to the publication of the 2nd international book of critical physiotherapy thinking - Mobilising knowledge- which will be out at the end of the year.You'll get to read some of the chapters from the book in advance and hear the authors talk about some of the most innovative work currently going on in physiotherapy.We have six sessions running from May to October, each covering a different chapter from the book: 14th May 8pm (CET) - Bodily ways of knowing: How students learn about and through bodies … [Read more...] about The 2nd fully free and open Critical Physiotherapy Course is back for 2020!
What kind of Critical Physiotherapy Course do you want next?
We held the end-of-course review meeting for the Critical Physiotherapy Course a few days ago. At the meeting we discussed the course format for next year. Three suggestions were put forward. Can you let us know which of these appeals the most please? We can then use your feedback to start making our plans. Thanks folks. … [Read more...] about What kind of Critical Physiotherapy Course do you want next?