Physiotherapists are well known for confident physicality.  A friend of mine used to say that you could always tell the physiotherapy students at university because they'd be the ones walking around with hardly any clothes on.  Happy are we it seems, to betray our confidence in our understanding of the body and how to 'work' it, taking every opportunity to thrust our bodily ideals on others. Often, physiotherapists' projections of the idealised normal and able body cause little offense, but their approach can also cause a great deal of hurt and frustration in the very people they claim to be helping. It would be nice to think that physiotherapists would be united in their opposition to … [Read more...] about Work for it – fitness, female and fascism