by Samuel Krogh Pedersen | Oct 3, 2025 | Clinic Design, Environmental Physiotherapy, Nature-based interventions
Like many others, I started out in traditional physiotherapy settings with white clinic rooms, adjustable treatment tables and a gym. But over time, I began to feel increasingly disconnected from the people I was trying to help. Patients come into our world with their...
by Dana Tostenson | Sep 11, 2024 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice, Environmental Physiotherapy
In physiotherapy, where the focus is on the patient’s pain, and restoring optimal function, there is a tendency for a myopic view of rehabilitation. While the greatest attention should be given on providing a quality assessment and intervention, the environment where...
by Lotta Lundmark Alfredsson | Oct 4, 2023 | Clinic Design, Environmental Physiotherapy, Greenspace Exposure
Unicare Bakke is a rehabilitation centre that is beautifully located on the countryside, south of Halden in Norway. I started working there as a physiotherapist in 2000 and over the years I recognized that we didn´t use the beautiful outdoors and surroundings as much...
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 David Duindam | Oct 25, 2022 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice, Environmental Sustainability
Climate change is the largest threat to human health and wellbeing globally (WHO, 2021). The healthcare industry itself currently contributes to fuelling the climate crisis with its emissions and material consumption (Karliner et al., 2020). There has been much...
by Jessica Stanhope | Feb 3, 2022 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice, Greenspace Exposure
For many of us, COVID-19 has meant restrictions on what we do and where we go. These restrictions may include lockdowns, which prevent us from leaving our homes, through to supervised quarantine, often in hotels. These restrictions have been criticised because of the...
