1. Fue directora de la línea de investigación kinesiología del desarrollo en la Universidad Nacional. ¿Podrías decirnos como nació el interés en este tema y como tu (experiencia o tu educación o ...) influencio tu investigación? y como influencio tu interés en el manejo de pacientes con demencia? Mi interés por la línea de investigación y profundización en kinesiología del desarrollo, surgió en relación con la oportunidad que tuve de estar vinculada como docente en la UN, durante un período (1986-2006) marcado por la necesidad de reformar el programa curricular de la carrera de manera tal que se favoreciera la formación de fisioterapeutas más comprometidos con la mejora de la … [Read more...] about Gloria Teresa Zapata – Fisioterapeuta
Profile: Karen K. Yoshida
While recently in Toronto, Canada, I was lucky enough to meet and interview Karen Yoshida, one of the first physiotherapists to engage in critical disability studies. Karen has been a CPN member since its inception. Karen K. Yoshida PhD is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science Institute, Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Social and Behavioural Science Division), Mentor, Collaborative Graduate Program in Women’s Health, University of Toronto You have had a very interesting career in physiotherapy, could you discuss the time when your work started to be ‘critical’? A number of events during the early 1980’s, when I was training as a physical … [Read more...] about Profile: Karen K. Yoshida
Critical physiotherapy podcast
Late last year I spent a very nice hour with CPN member and passionate physiotherapy-reformer Paul Lagerman, otherwise known as The Naked Physio (link). Paul's website has been using blogging, social media and podcasting as a way to debate our profession for a while now, and he has just published a conversation we had about the past, present and future of the profession and the role that people in the Critical Physiotherapy Network are playing in transforming the profession. You can hear the entirety of the podcast here or through Paul's site. … [Read more...] about Critical physiotherapy podcast
Member Profile: Pia Kontos
From time to time we profile a member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network to find out more about them and their work. In this profile we talk to Pia Kontos who is a Senior Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, at the University of Toronto, Canada. Pia is one of our non-physiotherapist members whose work closely aligns with the goals of the CPN. She is a prolific and creative researcher who uses critical social theory and arts-based approaches to examine and address the norms and assumptions underpinning care practices in long-term care and rehabilitation settings. We asked Pia to tell us more about her … [Read more...] about Member Profile: Pia Kontos
Interview with Wenche Bjorbækmo
Every so often we profile a member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network to find out a bit more about them and their work. In this 'interview' we asked Wenche Bjorbækmo about the inspiration behind her research. Wenche works in the Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. Wenche's work centres on qualitative research, phenomenology, physiotherapy, movement, experience, exercise, disability and (re)habilitation (you can see a link to her interests, research, teaching and publications here). Wenche has been a member of the CPN almost from its inception, and many of us had the pleasure of meeting her and hearing her present at the In Sickness and In Health … [Read more...] about Interview with Wenche Bjorbækmo
Critical physiotherapy research update
Depression embodied: an ambiguous striving against fading Louise Danielsson and Susanne Rosberg Although depression is associated to physical discomfort, meanings of the body in depression are rarely addressed in clinical research. Drawing on the concept of the lived body, this study explores depression as an embodied phenomenon. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, the analysis of narrative-based interviews with 11 depressed adults discloses a thematic structure of an embodied process of an ambiguous striving against fading. Five subthemes elicit different dimensions of this process, interpreted as disabling or enabling: feeling estranged, feeling confined, feeling … [Read more...] about Critical physiotherapy research update
Interview with Tobba Therkildsen Sudmann
As part of our 'interview' series with people in the Critical Physiotherapy Network, I asked Tobba Therkildsen Sudmann some questions about her approach to physiotherapy, research and life in general. Tobba is the Head of the Masters programme in Community Work at Bergen University College in Bergen, Norway. Your thesis ‘(En)gendering body politics: Physiotherapy as a window on health and illness’ explored your interest in contemporary social theory and critical hermeneutics and talks about physiotherapy as a precarious social encounter (see link to thesis here). Can you talk more about where your interest in these subjects comes from and how your background has influenced your … [Read more...] about Interview with Tobba Therkildsen Sudmann