Moving Earth
– The Environmental Physiotherapy Association Blog –
Regular news, events and ideas on all things environmental physiotherapy.
Please use our contact form if you are interested in contributing to Moving Earth: The Environmental Physiotherapy Association Blog. Contributions in any language and any format on all potentially related topics welcome! Please see our contribution guidelines at the bottom of this page. We appreciate your help in developing and advancing an environmentally aware and responsible physiotherapy profession across research, education and clinical practice.
The contributions presented in this blog do not necessarily represent the opinions and values of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association as such. Rather, they represent the thoughts and work of contributing authors and through these, an open and ongoing discussion of what an environmentally aware and responsible is, could and should be.
A collaborative approach towards physical activity promotion
Observing the national statistics of physical inactivity in the UK and acknowledging the difficulty of changing a habit, there is a need to explore...
A call to include a perspective of sustainable development in physical therapy research
It is about time physiotherapists realize our potential as a profession that could make vital contributions to sustainable development, in...
Omhelzende natuur – een reflectie van een student op verbondenheid in de pandemie
Mezelf aanpassen aan de anderhalvemetermaatschappij, met daarin weinig tot geen lichamelijk contact: het is een flinke opgave en ik blijf het stug...
Environmental physiotherapy is now on Physiopedia and Physioplus
Ever since we have launched the Environmental Physiotherapy Association it has been our aim to advance the exploration and development of the...
Centering (climate?) justice in physiotherapy
In the two decades that I have been a member of this profession, I cannot recall an instance when justice was a central topic for physiotherapists....
World Physiotherapy Congress 2021 – The inofficial environmental physiotherapy stream
Shortly after the launch of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association in the middle of 2019 I put out what felt like a wish to the universe (in...
Physiotherapy and the Sustainable Development Goals – A students perspective
Now more than ever it feels necessary to, at a very minimum, encourage deliberation on the importance of adopting more sustainable practices in...
Natur Mensch Künstliche Intelligenz und Kultur
Wie eine deutsche Physiotherapie-Zeitschrift (1) im Juli 2020 veröffentlichte, sind in der Forschung Therapiemethoden in der Erprobung, die eine...
Active Transport: Ideas to improve the health of patients and planet
How many of your patients arrived to their physio appointments last week by car? For me, it was 100% of those not opting for telehealth. An empty...
Online environmental physiotherapy workshops at the 9th International week HAN University Nijmegen
This years HAN University of Applied Sciences 9th International Week - Connecting localism to globalism: Critical perspectives on allied health...
Environmental Physiotherapy Education Podcast
Environmental Physiotherapy on youtube
Moving Earth – Soft contribution guidelines for blogposts:
Text, video, audio, image and other types of contributions in any language are all welcome.
If you contribute a text, we will need the following:
- max 1000 words
- 3-5 jpg images (landscape format, high resolution, either from your private collection or licensed as ‘free to share and use’, sent as email attachments)
- use of references possible, but not mandatory (always depends on your topic). If you do use references, please do so using a consistent format, preferably APA6th
Regardless of contribution type, for the author info box, please also send us:
- profile picture of yourself
- your current title and role
- max 50 word (2-3 sentences) text about yourself (check existing blogposts for some examples)
- your twitter and Linkedin links (depending on which you have)
We appreciate your effort and support in developing and advancing environmental physiotherapy in all of its facets, and look forward to reviewing your draft contribution!