A couple of weeks ago, I posted the first of a series of short critical summaries of the biomedical model. The biomedical model is perhaps one of the most important theories underpinning physiotherapy, and yet it is rarely taught overtly in the physiotherapy curriculum. Clinicians don’t see it hiding behind their assessments and diagnoses. They don’t see it underpinning most of the treatments. And they don’t recognise it as a key driver of the kind of knowledge we accept to be true and false. So having a better understanding of how the biomedical model works would seem like a good idea. In the first post of the series, I briefly wrote about specific aetiology and the idea that one of … [Read more...] about What is the biomedical model #2
Hannah Vitelson – Pippi gets critical – 30DoS #28
In this post, physiotherapist Hanni Vitelson writes about how a classic children's story became the inspiration for some critical thinking. An advertisement for an anti-freckle cream catches the attention of 9-years old Pippi Langstrump. The sign says: DO YOU SUFFER FROM FRECKLES? Pippi goes straight to the selling lady and says: 'NO!! I don’t suffer from freckles!!' 'But, my dear child, your whole face is covered with freckles!’ says the seller. ‘I know that,’ says Pippi, ‘but I don’t suffer from them. I love them. Good morning.’ This episode appears only in the fuller versions of the book, originally published in Sweden in 1945 by Astrid Lindgren. This ever-fresh 70-years old … [Read more...] about Hannah Vitelson – Pippi gets critical – 30DoS #28