Thanks to everyone who sent me comments and thoughts on the Connectivity writing project. Over the next few days I'll post up some of the feedback and thoughts that these pieces. Remember to send comments on these things too and I'll pull them all together. This post came from Barbara Gibson - Associate Professor, in the Department of Physical Therapy at University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist at Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto. I am hoping that as a critical group we can use this as a point of departure to delve a little more into the philosophical approach(es) that underpin these ideas. In particular, drawing out the … [Read more...] about Connectivity – Contributions from the Network #4 – Barbara Gibson
Report on 1st meeting of the Critical Physio Network Organising Committee
We had the first meeting of the Critical Physiotherapy Network Organising Committee (neatly abbreviated to CPN-OC). You'll remember we had six fabulously enthusiastic volunteers: Barbara Gibson (Canada), Jenny Setchell (Australia), Nicky Wilson & Gwyn Owen (UK), Simon Kirkegaard (Denmark), with me - Dave Nicholls (New Zealand) - in the Chair. The plan for the first meeting was to get the video conferencing software to work (why is it that the technology is always the biggest stress!), and to meet each other. I thought that if we could just achieve that, we would have achieved something quite momentous. I'm pleased to say we did achieve our objective, but with only minutes to … [Read more...] about Report on 1st meeting of the Critical Physio Network Organising Committee
Confirmation bias, physiotherapy and the highlighter pen – a blog post by Alan Taylor
If you get a chance, take a look at this new blog post by CPN member Alan Taylor. http://alteredhaemodynamics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/confirmation-bias-physiotherapy-and.html … [Read more...] about Confirmation bias, physiotherapy and the highlighter pen – a blog post by Alan Taylor