Something for the weekend: The treadmill's dark and twisted past A Qualitative Study Exploring Physical Therapists’ Attitudes Toward Their Roles in Weight Management for People With Knee Osteoarthritis A qualitative study of long-term users’ experiences of physiotherapy in primary health care When Bodies Think: Panpsychism, Pluralism, Biopolitics The science of how we sense ourselves from within Framing citizenship: from assumptions to possibilities in health and physical education The perils of the human imagination Risk and the Spectral Politics of Disability Understanding Physiotherapists’ Intention to Counsel Clients with Chronic Pain on Exercise A critical habermasian … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #42

Something for the weekend: Here is where I walk Soaking up the rays Normality, a critical genealogy The End of Physiotherapy now in paperback (and a lot cheaper) I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche …and also here Pelvic floor exercises with imaginary eels How the dualism of Descartes ruined our mental health Call for poor and disabled to be given NHS fitness trackers 8th Ethnography and qualitative research conference call 25 ways to increase your chances at publication Relinquishing control in focus groups Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation Bodies Beyond Borders: Moving Anatomies 1750–1950 Vital bodies: Living with illness … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #36

Interrogating Medicine: A podcast on humanities and pain Physical Therapy at Bath War Hospital: Rehabilitation and Its Links to WW1 Triathlon Bodies in Motion: Reconceptualizing Feelings of Pain, Nausea and Disgust in the Ironman Triathlon Governing Homelessness through Running Machines with Faces: Robot Bodies and the Problem of Cruelty Reconsidering the ‘self’ in self‐management of chronic illness: Lessons from relational autonomy Disabled in grad school Learning to write through an awareness of breath Moving Around: A Lifetime of Wandering What does resistance mean for Foucault and Agamben? Henri Bergson, celebrity Learning to be a co-author Modernity, faith and Martin … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #35

Something for the weekend: Hiking with Nietzsche Challenging assumptions about ‘normal’ development in children’s rehabilitation Tensions living out professional values for physical therapists treating injured workers On Critical Theories and Digital Media Experiencing physical activity across the life-course: The case of injured rugby players The digital subject: People as data as persons The impact of healthcare spending on health outcomes Industrial fatigue and the productive body Americans sitting more than ever and this How WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia Stop depicting technology as redeeming disabled people … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #33

Something for the Easter weekend: The European Network of Physiotherapy in Higher Education Spring Newsletter ICF: A Hands-on Approach for Clinicians and Families Cheer* in Health Care Practice: What It Excludes and Why It Matters Hospital develops AI to identify patients likely to skip appointments Technology Ethics in Qualitative Research: How to Be The role of AHPs in developing digital capabilities The self-care paradox Home/work for women workers Do you compute? Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Knowledge Production and Social Transformation. A palpating robot Clinical educators’ skills and qualities in allied health: a systematic … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #32

Something for the weekend: Therapeutic mobilities "Why is it acceptable care if the physical therapist doesn’t come every day but not acceptable care if antibiotics are not given daily?" What about recovery Do PTs recognize people who are addicted to exercise? Governing homelessness through running The painless woman Animal gaits Why hasn't evolution dealt with the inefficiency of ageing? An alternative to digital detox "[A] smart and complex exploration of what it means to be in a body in the world" The (historical) body in pain There's a better way than just building more hospitals A sociology of public responses to hospital change and closure … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #31