Thanks to everyone who messaged about the glitch we discovered with the first two polls. That's been fixed now so it should all work perfectly. Don't forget to log in too if you want to add comments. We'd love to hear your thoughts about some of the questions we're asking. If you have any problems logging in, just email Jo Bloggs, our site administrator, admin@criticalphysio.net, and we'll sort it out. So, here's today's poll question: … [Read more...] about 30DoS – Day 3
30DoS – Day 2
Thank you to everyone who voted in our first poll. The poll will stay open until a week after September, so you can go back and vote on earlier polls if you want to. Today's question is: Don't forget to add a comment below if there's more you'd like to say... … [Read more...] about 30DoS – Day 2
Welcome to this year’s 30 Days of September campaign
Five years ago, as the CPN was just getting started, we ran our first 30 Days of September campaign asking you what you wanted the CPN to do. The responses shaped how we got the Network started and I'm pleased to say that we did many of the things you asked for. We had meetings, wrote journal articles and a book, set up this website and blog, and have now run our first critical physiotherapy course. So it seems high time we came back to you to ask for our direction for the next five years. Over the course of the month we'll ask one question a day. They are all yes/no answers, so will only take a moment. There's a comments box below each poll if you want to start a … [Read more...] about Welcome to this year’s 30 Days of September campaign
Our annual 30 Days of September campaign is back next week
Every year for the last five years we have run a month-long campaign called 30 Days of September. Each day of the month we post up something around a common theme. In the past we've made desktop wallpaper with our favourite quotes on and featured members of the CPN, but this year we're returning to where it all began. Five years ago, at the birth of the Association, we asked you, our loyal readers and members, what you'd like our business to focus on. And, as best we could, that's what we did. So five years on, we're going to repeat the exercise, and we need your help. Every day during September we'll post up a poll asking you whether you think we should do something or not. … [Read more...] about Our annual 30 Days of September campaign is back next week
30DoS 2018 – the final list
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this year's 30DoS campaign. It takes a big collective effort to run the blog during the month, but hopefully you'll now have a better idea of some of the wonderfully innovative and interesting work that people within the CPN are doing. The CPN now has over 600 members in more than 40 countries, and in the years to come we'll be looking for new ways to be a positive voice for an otherwise physiotherapy. In the meantime, you could do worse than look at the work that some of these people are doing, and consider ways that they are pushing the boundaries of how it's possible to think and practice physiotherapy. If you missed any of the individual … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 – the final list
30DoS 2018 Day 29 – Catherine Sykes
I have never not been a physiotherapist in a long and eclectic career that has seen me living and working on three continents and both within the profession (as a clinician, service manager, academic and researcher) and outside (in national disability policy, disability data development and as a non-government organisation advisor). Throughout my career, the education at Addenbrooke’s Hospital School of Physiotherapy in the 1970s has been a sound foundation for lifelong education; both formal and informal. I started a degree in Psychology (Unfinished due to meeting my husband and migrating to Australia.) which led to a better understanding of the relationship between body and mind. An MSc … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 29 – Catherine Sykes
30DoS 2018 Day 28 – Naomi Eisenberg
In our everyday practice, we often operate on the assumptions we have about our patients, our professions and the medical systems we work in. I do a lot of work with medical students and resident trainees, and I love the challenge of scratching at the underbelly of these assumptions within my positivistic environment. Email address: Naomi.Eisenberg@uhn.ca Location (city/town, country): Toronto, ON, Canada Current position(s): Vascular Database Manager/Research Assistant, Vascular Surgery Relevant critical publications: Eisenberg NR. Post-structural conceptualizations of power relationships in physiotherapy. Physiother Theory Pract 2012 Aug; (6):439-446. … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 28 – Naomi Eisenberg