How do you judge if one movement is good and another bad? Many claim that movement is the core of physiotherapy 1, 2, 3. But how far is the profession prepared to go to justify its claim to be experts in movement? Presumably, no-one would dispute that the improved diffusion of oxygen through the pulmonary interstitial space of a COVID-19 sufferer is good. And we can celebrate those that made that possible. But what about the movement of air in a black man’s throat, or the movement of the knee of the police officer that killed him? What about the lack of movement of the people who stood around and watched him die? Is the movement of a thousand protesters good movement, even … [Read more...] about Is all movement ‘good’ movement?
CPN Digest #90
Something for the weekend: CfP: OpenPhysio: Towards a new normal in physiotherapy educationThe Physiotherapy and Refugees Education Project Feedback for learning projectThe healing power of gardensParticipatory training in disability and migration: mobilizing community capacities for advocacyShow but don’t tell: why silent Zooms are golden for focusing the mindPopulist and Democratic Biopolitics in Times of COVID-19Walking as transgenerational methodologyNo One Disagrees With Rebecca SolnitProgress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3Roy Porter on Science, Medicine and the ‘Decline of Magic’Trans-species health: An aesthetic responsibilityLife as Experienced Within and Through the Body … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #90
CPN Digest #89
Something for the weekend: Fitness 101: Our Guide to Working Out From HomeA Brief Criminal History of the MaskAmericans tend to see disease as a personal failure. That’s a terrible way of thinking about it.Digital technology and race equityA Brain Implant Restored This Man's Motion and Sense of TouchMedicine: A Graphic HistoryGoogle’s medical AI was super accurate in a lab. Real life was a different story.Truth, trust and research in health and social careThe market and ‘the making’: the economics of the first workers’ associations in nineteenth-century SwedenUsing Foucault: Genealogy, Governmentality and the Problem of Chronic IllnessGymnasiumThe Politics of Nature, Left and Right: … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #89