Something for the weekend: Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate ChangeMerleau-Ponty: Beauty, Phenomenology, and the ‘Theological Turn’Feeling the Real: The Non-Nomadic Subject of FeminismCfP: Dis-abling Spaces and Cultures in Times of CrisisTheorising rehabilitation: Actors and parameters shaping normality, liminality and depersonalisation in a UK hospitalPhysiotherapists’ attitudes and beliefs about low back pain influence their clinical decisions and adviceUnlearning to Be Human? The Pedagogical Implications of 21st-Century Postanthropocentrism“Kicking and Screaming” or “Gracefully Conceding”: Creative Nonfiction Stories of Aging With Multiple SclerosisTo Care as we Would Like … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #141
The active future for the passive therapist (draft)
I've been asked by a few people this week if I can share a copy of the comment piece I've just written for JOSPT on the recent Editorial Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy After COVID-19: Time for a New “Normal”. Obviously the print version is covered by copyright, but here is a pre-print working version of the brief paper. Traditionally ‘passive’ physiotherapy modalities like spinal traction, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, massage, tissue mobilisation and manipulation, have all been subject to critique for some years now. Most recently, these approaches have been labeled low-value care, because, it is claimed, they provide little or no benefit to the patient, and their risks … [Read more...] about The active future for the passive therapist (draft)
This year’s 30 Days of September campaign is about you!
Those of you who have been with the CPN since it began in 7 BC (Before COVID) will know that one of our earlies 30DoS campaigns featured a handful of our lovely CPN members.Having brief profiles of some of our colleagues and friends really helped us to grow as a network and feel like a family, so we thought, given how fractured we all are right now, it was time we did it again. So our plan is to feature one person in the Network every day for 30 days.We want to profile members new and old, students, new graduates and experienced practitioners, teachers and researchers, the deeply critical and those of you who are just getting started. To make it manageable for us, we've drafted five … [Read more...] about This year’s 30 Days of September campaign is about you!