New video and podcast on environmental physiotherapy education
My brain is still buzzing with thoughts and ideas after two back-to-back conferences that featured contributions on environmental physiotherapy...
The EPA joins the Planetary Health Alliance
We are excited to have joined the Planetary Health Alliance, a consortium of over 200 universities, non-governmental organizations, research...
A voice for our education – Student’s perspectives on the EPT Agenda 2023
It’s 2020. The threat of climate change is ever increasing and we now have a greater understanding than ever of how the environment impacts our...
The EPA celebrates it’s first anniversary
I am finding it really hard to believe, but it is one year to the day since we have launched the Environmental Physiotherapy Association and so much...
Moving physiotherapy outdoors
Lancashire and North West England. The wettest part of a wet country. So, maybe not the first place one would think of when developing a business...
Environmental physiotherapy education at the In Beta Unconference 2020
In Beta is a virtual community of physiotherapy educators who experiment with different approaches to teaching and learning, make podcasts, publish...
Can greenspace exposure improve pain outcomes?
Have you ever told a patient to spend more time in greenspaces to help reduce their pain? I haven’t, but this simple intervention may improve pain...
Physiotherapie + Studium + Nachhaltigkeit = Zukunft
Vor wenigen Wochen wurde ich mit der EPA und ihrem Thema der Verknüpfung von Physiotherapie und Umwelt konfrontiert. Wenige Tage später...
Living well with pain, by the sea
Living with persistent pain can be difficult! Pain permeates every part of my life and is my constant companion. In this blog I hope to show how...
Unless someone like… me! – A personal reflection on this World Environment Day 2020
It was around this time of year, 20 years ago, that I sold my last car. Ingrid and I were heading to London to live and so the sale was necessary....
Reconnecting with nature helped me reconnect with myself and the world
During the worst years of my pain I became withdrawn and isolated, disconnected from the people, places, and experiences that mattered to me. My...
COVID-19 and physiotherapy through the lens of climate change adaptation and mitigation
After writing my recent blogpost on COVID-19, healthcare and the environment I've continued updating it for a pretty substantial reading, viewing...
Restoring harmony – How pacific indigenous knowledge can help physiotherapists navigate environmental responsibility
It is a privilege to contribute to the conversation of how the physiotherapy profession could, and should, embark on critically evaluating its...
EPA joins the Physiotherapy and Refugees Education Project (PREP)
Today we are excited to announce that the EPA has joined the Physiotherapy and Refugees Education Project (PREP) as associate partner. PREP is an...
Pourquoi il est temps de s’engager collectivement pour une Kinésithérapie écologique?
À l’heure d’une prise de conscience populaire des modifications climatiques et de l’impact humain sur notre environnement, il est temps de proposer...
Earth Hour 2020 – Raise your voice for nature
Having started in march 2007 in Sydney, Australia, Earth Hour has become one of the world's largest grassroots movements for the environment. And...
COVID-19, healthcare and the environment (the long read)
I remain unsure how to start this blogpost. The only thing that seems fairly clear is that I am trying to make sense of the current COVID-19...
How to move a mountain with a biodegradable spoon
The move towards an environmentally sustainable teaching facility for clinical physiotherapy practice or even a private community practice is a...
Launching the Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2023
Over the last 3 months, the EPA exec and a group of EPA members have steadily been working on our biggest project yet and we are beyond excited to...
Reflections on the first Environmental Physiotherapy Roundtable
On 26 of November 2019, a group of members of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA) came together in a live-streamed online roundtable...
This is happiness
"The ploughing's done. The seed is spread. The weather is reminding me that, rain or shine, the earth abides, the land endures, the soil will...
A physiotherapy clinic on Vancouver Island blazes a trail in eco-friendly clinic design: Dockside Physiotherapy
After launching the EPA a few months ago, it quickly became clear that one of the topics that had huge interest behind them was about what...
Nachhaltigkeit im Praxisalltag und der Physiotherapie im Allgemeinen – Präsentation auf der TheraPro 2020 in Stuttgart
New EPA member Hannah Krappmann is grabing the bull by its horns and will be presenting her thoughts on sustainability in physiotherapy at the...
Environmental physiotherapy meets critical physiotherapy meets Latin America
Toward the end of last year, an incredibly inspiring and creative meeting took place amongst physiotherapists in Latin America. Though it was the...
The UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The beginning of this New Year also marks the beginning of a new decade that is widely considered crucial for the future of human health and...
From the body as physical therapy to environmental physiotherapy
Fitting the time of reflection that is this time of the year, over the last few weeks I've been reflecting a lot on what it is that actually brought...
The personal connection: Reflections on communication in environmental physiotherapy
A few weeks ago the inaugural Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA) executive committee met for the first ever online meeting to get to know...
A new way to think about physiotherapy
As a physio, I’ve always been drawn to lung disease, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say I’m drawn to people who are suffering with lung...
The Environmental Physiotherapy Roundtable: A live-streaming event
On Tuesday 26 November 2019 a group of members of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA) will be coming together in an online roundtable...
The X-files: Animals in physiotherapy
The relationship between animals and physiotherapy is not a widely explored arena, though one that should get significantly more attention in light...
15 ways to practise environmental physiotherapy
As we embark on the journey of developing and practising an environmentally responsible physiotherapy, it seems of paramount importance to recognise...
Shaping the future of physiotherapy: A blogpost by EPA student representatives Issie Long and Thies Bundtzen
Since the launch of the EPA physiotherapy students from around the world continue to join the association. Their enthusiasm for the subject field is...
Members voices: Why physiotherapists are joining the EPA and what they are already thinking and doing about environmental physiotherapy
The Environmental Physiotherapy Assocation (EPA) continues to grow by the day. Members are pouring in from all corners of the world and all areas of...
You are already practicing environmental physiotherapy: whenever you recommend physical activity (and here is how)
Recommending physical activity is all the rage in physiotherapy at the moment, and for good reasons. Yet what we haven't thought about very much so...
Free online courses and resources on climate and health
Starting to learn about today's environmental crises and their relation to human health can be quite overwhelming given the exponentially increasing...
More ways than one
There is every reason to be seriously concerned and even frightened about the future of life and health on the world today. Soil erosion and...
Environmental Physiotherapy at the WCPT Congress 2021
The Environmental Physiotherapy Association was formed only a week ago and we could not have asked for a better start. The quickly growing...
Launching the Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA)
Physiotherapy has needed an international association dedicated to the environment for some time, and not only because we now have social media that...