by Tibo Uyttersprot | May 23, 2023 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Sustainability
The Environmental Physiotherapy Association and Health Care Without Harm Europe are excited to announce a new strategic partnership to advance the sustainable healthcare movement. Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Europe exists to create a sustainable healthcare sector....
by Monica Roe | May 2, 2023 | Clinical Practice, Disability, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Physiotherapy, Global warming
There used to be a runway made of ice. Every winter, when the wild Bering Sea solidified between the tiny village of Little Diomede and the military outpost at nearby Big Diomede, the United States and Russia was temporarily connected by a thick, two-mile stretch....
by Sarah Schwab | Oct 4, 2022 | Disability, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
A complete, humanized description of disability requires consideration of context (e.g., physical environment, social interactions, background life), and the factors contributing to function and disability should be sought at the interface of an individual and their...
by Tibo Uyttersprot | Aug 4, 2022 | Disaster relief and humanitarian emergenciess, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Physiotherapy
Studying physiotherapy sparked my passion for what we call the ‘health care system’, and more specifically primary healthcare. I decided to follow up on this passion and pursue an advanced Master degree in Global Health, where I had the opportunity to dive deeper in...
by Filip Maric | May 3, 2022 | Aquatic PT and bluespace exposure, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Philosophies, Physiotherapy Research, SDGs
A little over one year ago, one of our first-year physiotherapy students at UiT The Arctic University of Norway wrote a fictional account of a future in which multidisciplinary teams of natural scientists, physiotherapists and many others were tasked to sail to the...
by Martina Borg | Mar 9, 2022 | Aquatic PT and bluespace exposure, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts
I was born and raised in Malta, a small island found in the middle of the Mediterranean that is hit with extreme currents from the North (coming from Greece and Italy) and South (from Libya and Tunis). Experiencing an island life, I always felt very close to the sea,...
