by Joost van Wijchen | Apr 23, 2025 | Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy, Equity, Nederlands
De klimaat- en biodiversiteitscrisis stelt ons als fysiotherapeuten niet alleen voor praktische vragen, maar ook voor fundamentele uitdagingen in hoe wij als fysiotherapeuten gezondheid, zorg en verantwoordelijkheid begrijpen en vormgeven. Deze uitdagingen brengen ons...
by Matt Low | Apr 3, 2025 | Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy, Practice
Chronic musculoskeletal pain presents a significant challenge for healthcare professionals and patients alike. Traditional approaches, often rooted in the biomedical model, have focused on locating pain within damaged tissues and repairing the “broken” body. While...
by Jessica Williams | Jun 19, 2024 | Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
As physiotherapists, we recognize that one of our primary concerns lies in the support of well-being, a concept that is typically viewed through an anthropocentric lens. As underscored by Ton Gevers in his EPA blog post on Actor-network theory, anthropocentrism places...
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 Takuzo Kimura | Mar 13, 2024 | Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
At the first-ever Environmental Physiotherapy Festival 2023 I held a presentation beginning with a brief introduction on complex adaptive systems- a unifying area of study that encompasses information, evolution, neuroscience, and systems theories to shed light on an...
by David Nicholls | Nov 29, 2023 | Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
Given that the word therapy makes up half of our profession’s name, you might think physiotherapists would have developed a thorough understanding of the concept. But this is not the case. In fact, within the physiotherapy literature, there has been almost no...