Filip Maric will be talking about The fundamental violence of physiotherapy The session is free to join, just use this link at the time shown above: https://aut.zoom.us/j/622770935 Abstract This online session builds on the eponymous article and will discuss ‘The fundamental violence of physiotherapy: Emmanuel Levinas’s critique of ontology and its implications for physiotherapy theory and practice’ (Maric & Nicholls, in review). Ontology and epistemology are generally thought to be the fundamental building blocks of any theory and practice. Levinas’s critique acutely highlights a significant problem that underpins both of these areas of philosophical inquiry and their … [Read more...] about The 7th and final Critical Physiotherapy Course of the year is THIS WEEK
The 5th critical physiotherapy course is next week: Tobba Sudmann on ‘How to understand disability’
The 5th in our 2019 series of Critical Physiotherapy Courses will be led by Tobba Sudmann, Physiotherapist and Professor of Public Health at the Centre for Care Research, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. The session is titled 'How to understand disability? On the making of disability though discourse, materiality and practice'. As always, the session is free, all you need to do is click on the link below at the time of the meeting to listen in. Zoom link: https://aut.zoom.us/j/408228596 Abstract This session will show how the phenomenon ‘disability’ is created through our modern history and our ways or ordering and doing ability and disability. The online … [Read more...] about The 5th critical physiotherapy course is next week: Tobba Sudmann on ‘How to understand disability’
Notes from 2nd Critical Physiotherapy Course – What’s “critical” about critical physiotherapy? with Anna Rajala
Huge thanks to Anna for a fabulous 2nd Critical Physiotherapy Course talk. Here you can find the abstract, PowerPoint slides, audio and chat feed from the talk. Abstract | Link to audio file | PowerPoint presentation | Chat Our next session will be just before the Easter Holidays at 20:00 GMT on Thursday 18th April. It will be led by Gail Teachman and titled The End of Inclusion? Thinking beyond 'inclusion' with Bourdieu. A link to the talk and more information will follow a couple of weeks ahead of the event. … [Read more...] about Notes from 2nd Critical Physiotherapy Course – What’s “critical” about critical physiotherapy? with Anna Rajala
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
The first ever Free Critical Physiotherapy Online Course is coming
We've been planning to run a free online course on thinking critically about physiotherapy for some years, but now we are happy to announce that it has finally come to fruition. A team of CPN members have been thinking about the kind of course that we would want for months now, and we have taken our time to try to develop a program that we think you will find interesting and exciting. The course is grounded in practical, everyday physiotherapy challenges, but uses the experience of physiotherapists who have a deep knowledge of theory and philosophy to expand on the ways we currently think about these situations and issues. Is autonomy really a good thing for physiotherapists? … [Read more...] about The first ever Free Critical Physiotherapy Online Course is coming
Transforming physiotherapy
Ben Cormack wrote a post on Facebook yesterday that touched on an important point about innovation and creativity in physiotherapy. The post read: Therapeutic exercise can often literally suck out all the motivation to do it. It can be so meaningless & monotonous. We exercise because it makes us feel good or we want to look good. We play sport because we enjoy the social engagement or the game. We engage in meaningful activities that use our bodies because we can switch off from the world or they provide fulfilment. We need to tap into the things that inspire people to move rather than just tell them to exercise (link). Notice how in each case Ben argues that we do … [Read more...] about Transforming physiotherapy
What should critical physiotherapy do for you?
There have been a few occasions over the last few months when people within the Critical Physiotherapy Network have been asked to do more for physiotherapy. The first time happened after our CPN Salon in Cape Town last year. Our esteemed colleague Professor Dina Brooks began the discussion by asking the CPN to do more to help mainstream physiotherapists make complex theories and philosophies more accessible. In her Reflections of a quantitative researcher on the CPN Salon, posted in July last year, Dina argued that the CPN risked functioning like a 'club' that excluded those who didn't subscribe to its principles. One of Dina's arguments at the time was that the CPN should build … [Read more...] about What should critical physiotherapy do for you?