In the 2nd in this series of occasional posts looking back on the last six years of CPN blogposts we return to the thorny issue of the biopsychosocial model. Thorny because the BPS remains a touchstone for physiotherapists who claim to offer a more holistic therapy. All of these posts take a different view. Hopefully you'll still find returning to these arguments challenging and inspiring. The first post comes from October 2016 and asked whether the biopsychosocial model was all it was cracked up to be. The post focused on the claims of the BPS model to be holistic and pondered ' how the model has saturated people's thinking at the exclusion of other ways of being 'holistic'.This post … [Read more...] about Looking back on the biopsychosocial model
CPN Digest #82
Something for the weekend: Graphic illustration of impairment: science fiction, Transmetropolitan and the social model of disability¼ of climate change tweets are from botsWhy do corporations speak the way they do?Look inside transparent organsDon’t blame neoliberalism for postmodern conservatismThe evidence for evidence-based therapy is not as clear as we thoughtA place of silenceJacques Rancière: The crisis of democracy“A Sovereign Remedy”: Grimault & Co’s Asthma Cigarette EmpireEverything you know about obesity is wrongSoreness is good and scales are pointless: the 10 biggest myths in fitnessMax Weber invented the crisis of the humanitiesWhen was the last time you were touched? … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #82
Physiotherapy in a time of pandemic – an addendum
Earlier this week I wrote a post on the history of physiotherapy in times of pandemic for the history.physio site (link here). I've been thinking a lot about this recently and wanted to add a couple of more philosophical reflections that I hoped might be therapeutic for readers. The first thought ties in nicely with the history piece, and it is that we should remember that for almost the entire span of human history, humans have lived with the threat of illness and death, and it is only in the last half-century that some have enjoyed stable economies and secure employment, access to immediate, low-cost, advanced healthcare, good food and safe living conditions. I say 'some' because, … [Read more...] about Physiotherapy in a time of pandemic – an addendum