by Susan Czyzo | Nov 10, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Mental Health, Mindfulness
As healthcare professionals, we’re intricately involved within a system that both grapples with the consequences, and contributes to the climate crisis problem. Whether we’re working in primary care, rehabilitation, education, policy, or other areas, we’re all...
by Oka Sanerivi | Oct 26, 2023 | Environmental Justice, Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy, Indigenous perspectives
In Aotearoa New Zealand (hereafter Aotearoa), upon the meeting of strangers with Māori (the Indigenous people of Aotearoa), oftentimes you’ll hear the question “Ko wai koe?”, meaning “Who are you?”. The word ‘wai’ also translates to mean ‘water’. Thus for Māori, the...
by Ton Gevers | Oct 12, 2023 | Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
Have you ever wondered who or what the patient truly is? In medicine, the patient is defined as “a person who is ill or undergoing treatment for a disease.” (Dictionary, 2023) Yet, in my opinion, this definition paints a narrow, one-dimensional portrait of the patient...
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 Karime Mescouto | Sep 19, 2023 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
If you are a healthcare professional like me, I am sure you have heard about the biopsychosocial model of health. This model was proposed by George Engel in 1977 to challenge the prevailing biomedical approach in psychiatry, as well as medicine, more broadly (Engel,...
by Filip Maric | Jul 19, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Events
Environmental physiotherapy has gone through an incredible evolution over the last four years. The EPA will soon have over 1000 members, planetary health, environmental and sustainability education is entering physiotherapy curricula everywhere around the world, new...
