MOVING EARTH
The Environmental Physiotherapy Association Blog features regular news, events and ideas on all things Environmental Physiotherapy.
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.
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.
Sinai University Holds Its First Environmental Physiotherapy Session
This October, Sinai University officially joined the Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda, becoming the first university in Egypt to do so. With the...
When knowledge begins to move: Teaching planetary health advocacy in physiotherapy education
In my role as a lecturer in the physiotherapy programme at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, I have spent some years working at the intersection of...
From Soil to Soul – Nature-based learning at Qatar University
In the spring 2025 semester, Qatar University (QU) Department of Rehabilitation Sciences (DRS) Physiotherapy students (class of 2026) engaged in a...
Environmental Physiotherapy at the Philippine Physical Therapy Association National Convention 2025
Environmental physiotherapy was featured for the first time ever in a focussed symposium at the Philippine Physical Therapy Asssociation National...
Advancing Environmental Physiotherapy at the Sustainability Congress in Coimbra Polytechnic Institute
At the recent 7ª Conferência Campus Sustentável (CCS2025), a Sustainability Congress held in Coimbra, Portugal, I was pleased to share two...
Potential Benefits and Challenges of Art–Science Integration in Planetary Health and Environmental Physiotherapy
Artists and scientists both observe and interpret the world, but they do so through different epistemologies. While these disciplines are distinct,...
The Posthuman Walking Project
The Posthuman Walking Project is a transdisciplinary collaboration of physiotherapy and visual arts academics and persons with experience of living...
Seeing as caring part three: Reconcile
Reconciliation in my art didn’t arrive as a grand revelation. It came as a slow, uncomfortable noticing that I was being pulled in opposite...
Seeing as caring part two: Deliberate
In science, we use large datasets to learn things. Single-case studies are placed low on the pyramid of evidence and are valuable, but are...
Seeing as Caring part one: Witness
My artwork is a product of intuition. I am unable to preconceive of an image and make art reliably. It has to come from a place I cannot speak to...
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