Physiotherapists were very well represented at this year's In Sickness and In Health conference in Mallorca. Over the three days of the conference, 12 members of the CPN presented, and the standard of the work was as high as anything offered internationally. There were strong presentations on the application of phenomenology to practice, non-medical prescribing, professional competencies and embodied knowledge, discourses of cure and care, personal narratives in weight loss surgery advertising, practice regulation, the construction of fat bodies, artisanal practice, family-based care, post-structural analyses of movement, theories of health policy, and notions of inclusion for disabled … [Read more...] about Critical physios represented at ISIH conference in Mallorca
The architecture of movement
The Filling – a blogpost on emotion and pain
This extract comes from a post by CPN member Kyle Ridgeway. Kyle's work concentrates on opening up physical therapy to a more diverse range of positions, including the influence of areas previously beyond the scope of most therapists' thinking - engineering, mathematics and philosophy. This post looks at experiential dimensions of pain experience, referencing the all too common experience of going to the dentist. Some people utterly despise going to the dentist. I get it. The face and mouth are a locus of sensory innervation, and a dentist’s tools don’t exactly exude comfort. The grinding, the drilling, the scraping. Someone else’s hands in your mouth. Bleeding gums. Mouth held open, … [Read more...] about The Filling – a blogpost on emotion and pain