Every year since 2014 we've run a month-long blog campaign called 30 Days of September (30DoS). The idea is to post something on the blog each day for the entire month around a particular theme. In 2014 the theme was things that you thought the new CPN organisation ought to do. In 2015 we published 30 different ways for physiotherapists to think differently. In a few days we'll start our 2016 campaign with a project that brings together 30 CPN members from around the world, talking about the ideas and people that have inspired their work. Each day we'll a different CPN member will post a short piece about their inspiration and give you links so that you can follow up on ideas … [Read more...] about 30 Days of September 2016
Is it time for new critical physiotherapy journal?
In April, a new journal called Applied Mobilities was launched by Taylor and Francis. Given physiotherapy's interest in anything to do with mobility, you might be mistaken for believing that this was a new journal for us. But it isn't. Well it could be, but physiotherapy is currently only interested in quite specific kinds of mobility - the kind involving the biomechanical body - and isn't particularly interested in material semiotics or the day-to-day movements of Chinese migrant women in Sydney. So the journal joins the ranks of other journals like Body and Society, Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences and Medical Humanities as journals that physiotherapists probably ought to … [Read more...] about Is it time for new critical physiotherapy journal?
Interesting outcome
A quick quiz... What do these outcomes measures have in common? The Step Activity Monitor (SAM) Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) Fatigue Scale The Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke (PASS) And the Hierarchical Assessment of Balance and Mobility (HABAM) Yes, they do all suffer from the same urge to give every outcomes measure an acronyms. (Although it has to be said that the people who invented the Physiotherapy Functional Mobility Profile Questionnaire (PFMP-Q), had no desire to give their outcome measure a memorable name or acronym). But that's not the right answer. The answer is that they are all outcome measures developed in the last 20 years that are widely … [Read more...] about Interesting outcome