The EPA Student Assembly

by Margit Nikoline Langballe | Dec 4, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Students in EPT

Students have been a critical part of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association since day one. The unquestionable passion of physiotherapy students wishing to learn how they can contribute to doing something positive for their environment as part of the profession...

Is it time to rethink what we mean by ‘therapy’? Prof David Nicholls keynote from the EPT Festival 2023

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...

Mindfulness, Emotions, & the Climate Crisis: Background and Opportunity for Reflection

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...

The struggle for the decolonisation of both people and nature

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...

Have we ever treated patients yet? Actor-network theory and the changing patient in a changing world

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...

Outdoor environments for health and wellbeing

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...