The inexorable March: Climate Change, Disability, and a Growing Urgency

by Monica Roe | May 2, 2023 | Clinical Practice, Disability, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Physiotherapy, Global warming

There used to be a runway made of ice. Every winter, when the wild Bering Sea solidified between the tiny village of Little Diomede and the military outpost at nearby Big Diomede, the United States and Russia was temporarily connected by a thick, two-mile stretch....

Allied Health Professionals as agents for change: Chief Sustainability Officer’s Clinical Fellow

by Jessie Frost | Apr 13, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Environmental Sustainability

Over the last 10 years or more, many of us have been gradually moving towards more sustainable choices in our personal lives. Choosing greener modes of transport, making more plant-based food choices, embracing pre-loved clothing and shopping more locally. There is a...

Planetare Gesundheit in ErgoLogoPhysio – Welche Rolle spielen wir in der Klimakrise?

by Jennifer Linkmeyer | Apr 12, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Events, Planetary Health

Die Health for Future Arbeitsgruppe ErgoLogoPhysio (ELP) lädt zusammen mit der Planetary Health Academy der Deutschen Allianz Klimawandel und Gesundheit e.V. (KLUG) zu einer kostenlosen, interaktiven Online-Veranstaltungsreihe zum Thema „Planetare Gesundheit in...

Measures for improving the environmental sustainability of Norwegian physiotherapy services

by Hanna Gronvold | Apr 4, 2023 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Physiotherapy, Environmental Sustainability

It does not take a lot to understand that climate change is a problem too big for anybody to solve on their own. Truthfully, it can be overwhelming and demotivating, feeling that you are fighting on your own against the world. I recently wrote my bachelor’s...

Developing environmental physiotherapy in a community effort on Physiopedia

by Srishti Banerjee | Mar 28, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy

Thanks to the passion and ongoing efforts of our members, the Environmental Physiotherapy Association continues to advance environmental awareness and responsibility through a wide variety of ongoing projects. One such example is our Environmental Physiotherapy...

Why preventative healthcare is critical to sustainable healthcare and how physiotherapy supports this

by David Duindam | Mar 3, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy, SDGs

Although the healthcare sector is a critical service provider in every country, it possesses a significant environmental footprint (Malik, Lenzen, McAlister, & McGain, 2018). Without intervention, emissions from the healthcare sector are predicted to rise due to a...