by Ton Gevers | May 8, 2024 | Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
Is changing our perspective of patients the place to start? At the first-ever Environmental Physiotherapy Festival 2023, I led a session on redefining the concept of the patient in physiotherapy, summarising key points from my October blog on Moving Earth (Gevers,...
by Ton Gevers | Oct 12, 2023 | Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
Have you ever wondered who or what the patient truly is? In medicine, the patient is defined as “a person who is ill or undergoing treatment for a disease.” (Dictionary, 2023) Yet, in my opinion, this definition paints a narrow, one-dimensional portrait of the patient...