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...

Roots and Relations – Garden to Connect, Rwanda

by Betina Ringby | Feb 15, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Greenspace Exposure, Nature-based interventions, Urban Design and Sustainable Communities

What is the relation between growing plants, reused plastic pipes and physiotherapy? I have often been asked this, since I have engaged in urban gardening in Rwanda and Denmark. My personal path to connect the dots contains two meetings and an opportunity, which I...

A walking-based program to address the physical, mental and social aspects of low back pain: A single-case study

by Kyan Rytzell | Feb 1, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Students in EPT, Urban Design and Sustainable Communities

Last sprint in this Bachelor of Physiotherapy. Our bachelor thesis needs to be innovative! Looking for a partnership with a technology company to use micro sensors to assess the gait quality of patients. A professor comes with another great idea: prove that a...

Implementing environmental physiotherapy learning outcomes in the new UK MSK Advanced Practice Standards

by Kenneth Chance-Larsen | Jan 12, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy Education, Policy development

We have all come across learning outcomes (LOs) that form the backbone of accredited physiotherapy programmes and standards of practice. Physiotherapy academics spend hours developing LOs, a task where you try to find the balance between Oracle-of-Delphi-ambiguity and...

Books that have guided my transformative change towards planetary justice

by Noriko Yamaguchi | Jan 6, 2023 | Environmental Justice, Environmental Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy Education, Planetary Health

I recently chatted with a colleague about books that have changed our lives (1). It was literally a 2-minute conversation, but the idea of the impact of books still lingers in my mind. Counterintuitively, the readings that have had the most positive impact on my...

Healthpunk Vol 2: Healthcare + Fiction + You

by Filip Maric | Dec 13, 2022 | EcoHealth, Environmental Physiotherapy, Human-Animal Relations, Indigenous perspectives

‘Tis the season to imagine new ways forward for more ecologically and socially responsible healthcare futures! One year after the publication of Physiopunk Vol 1, we are happy to share Healthpunk Vol 2: Fiction + Healthcare + You: A collection boasting 10...