by Joletta Belton | May 25, 2020 | Clinical Practice, Patient perspectives
During the worst years of my pain I became withdrawn and isolated, disconnected from the people, places, and experiences that mattered to me. My sole focus was pain and being rid of it so I could get on with my life and get back to being me. Back then, sitting was my...
by Filip Maric | May 13, 2020 | Clinical Practice, Physiotherapy Education
After writing my recent blogpost on COVID-19, healthcare and the environment I’ve continued updating it for a pretty substantial reading, viewing and listening list. Together, I believe that these resources paint a pretty broad picture of what we are going...
by Oka Sanerivi | May 1, 2020 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Philosophies, Indigenous perspectives
It is a privilege to contribute to the conversation of how the physiotherapy profession could, and should, embark on critically evaluating its relationship with the natural environment. In doing this, I draw on the knowledge of my forbears, particularly in Samoa, to...
by Filip Maric | Mar 26, 2020 | Clinical Practice, Events
Having started in march 2007 in Sydney, Australia, Earth Hour has become one of the world’s largest grassroots movements for the environment. And though we find ourselves in a peculiar moment in human history amidst the COVID-19 crisis, which puts a particular...
by Marion Kennedy | Feb 10, 2020 | Clinical Practice, Events
On 26 of November 2019, a group of members of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA) came together in a live-streamed online roundtable to talk about what environmental physiotherapy is, could and should be. This group had come together as our profession...
by Evan Thomas | Jan 27, 2020 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice
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 physiotherapy clinicians, clinic owners and teams could do to be more environmentally responsible in their day-to-day clinical...
