The idea that most grabbed people's attention during last week's 1st critical physiotherapy course was slow physiotherapy (you can listen back to the full talk here). Slow physiotherapy - like the slow food and slow TV movements - would be a reaction to the hyperkinetic life that we're now all leading. But more than that, it would force us to focus more on exactly how pervasive questions of time and speed are in physiotherapy today. Paul Virilio - the philosopher we looked at last week - coined the term dromology to refer to the study of speed and time and, especially, how speeded up our lives increasingly feel. Virilio was concerned with the way technology had collapsed the time … [Read more...] about Slow physiotherapy
Listen back to the 1st seminar in the Critical Physiotherapy Course
Thanks to everyone who participated today. Here's a recording of the 1st seminar in the Critical Physiotherapy Course presented by Dave Nicholls on The Architecture of Movement. Audio recording And here are the full The architecture of movement annotated notes from the talk. The 2nd talk in this year's series will be given by Anna Rajala at 20:00 GMT on 21 March and is titled What's "critical" about critical physiotherapy? Max Horkheimer and the idea of Critical Theory. Anna is one of the rising stars of critical physiotherapy, so this is going to be a talk not to be missed. See you all in a month's time. … [Read more...] about Listen back to the 1st seminar in the Critical Physiotherapy Course
The first Critical Physiotherapy Course session starts in 2 weeks
The first of our Critical Physiotherapy Course sessions titled The architecture of Movement will be running in just 2 weeks time. The times for various locations around the world are listed below. Location Local Time Time Zone UTC Offset Auckland (New Zealand - Auckland) Thursday, 21 February 2019 at 8:00:00 a.m. NZDT UTC+13 hours London (United Kingdom - England) Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 7:00:00 p.m. GMT UTC New York (USA - New York) Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 2:00:00 p.m. EST UTC-5 hours Los Angeles (USA - California) Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 11:00:00 a.m. PST UTC-8 hours Berlin (Germany - Berlin) Wednesday, 20 February … [Read more...] about The first Critical Physiotherapy Course session starts in 2 weeks
Gloria Teresa Zapata – Fisioterapeuta
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
Resources from Critical Physiotherapy Course 1st Dress Rehearsal
We had a wonderful first dress rehearsal yesterday, and huge thanks go to A/Prof Tobba Sudmann who offered a perfect example of what the course strives to do. It was innovative, thought-provoking and moving, in every sense of the word. A full audio-recording of Tobba's talk and the following discussion is here, along with a pdf of her slides (with additional prompt questions). Our 2nd and final dress rehearsal for the course will be on 21/22 November and will be led by Hazel Horobin. More information about the event will come out closer to the time. Being walked slides pdf file … [Read more...] about Resources from Critical Physiotherapy Course 1st Dress Rehearsal
Critical Physiotherapy Course – 1st dress rehearsal *tomorrow*
Only 12 hours to go until the first ever free Critical Physiotherapy Course (1st dress rehearsal) featuring A/Prof Tobba Sudmann talking about 'Being moved: On foot or on horseback'. There is no registration, just log into this link at the times below, and be part of the revolution. Location Local Time Time Zone UTC Offset Auckland (New Zealand - Auckland) Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 6:00:00 a.m. NZDT UTC+13 hours New York (USA - New York) Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 1:00:00 p.m. EDT UTC-4 hours Los Angeles (USA - California) Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 10:00:00 a.m. PDT UTC-7 hours Sydney (Australia - New South Wales) Thursday, 18 October … [Read more...] about Critical Physiotherapy Course – 1st dress rehearsal *tomorrow*
Reading personality into people’s movements
David Armstrong described in his brilliant book A New History of Identity how exercise and specifically posture had been utilised as tools of social engineering in the late 19th century (Armstrong 2002). When we think of a person's attitude today, we often think of it as being about their response to authority, but it was originally a term used to describe a child's standing posture. Towards the end of the 1800s governments throughout Europe and North America grew increasingly concerned about the fitness and strength of its citizens and began to think about ways to discipline children before they became slovenly. Military-style drilling and massed social calisthenics were encouraged, … [Read more...] about Reading personality into people’s movements