by Andrea Ribeiro | Mar 2, 2026 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Events, Policy development
At the recent 7ª Conferência Campus Sustentável (CCS2025), a Sustainability Congress held in Coimbra, Portugal, I was pleased to share two initiatives reflecting EPA’s mission: integrating environmental and planetary health across physiotherapy education and...
by Freya Mizen | Feb 20, 2026 | Art and Planetary Health, Environmental Physiotherapy
Artists and scientists both observe and interpret the world, but they do so through different epistemologies. While these disciplines are distinct, encounters between them can generate new forms of understanding (Zhu & Goyal, 2018). Edwards (2009), a Harvard...
by Eric Robertson | Feb 12, 2026 | Art and Planetary Health, Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
Reconciliation in my art didn’t arrive as a grand revelation. It came as a slow, uncomfortable noticing that I was being pulled in opposite directions and still choosing to stand in the middle. On one side is my clinical life: evidence hierarchies, risk–benefit...
by Eric Robertson | Feb 9, 2026 | Art and Planetary Health, Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
In science, we use large datasets to learn things. Single-case studies are placed low on the pyramid of evidence and are valuable, but are nevertheless overlooked in critical decisions, such as when to approve a new medication or develop clinical practice guidelines....
by Eric Robertson | Feb 2, 2026 | Art and Planetary Health, Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
My artwork is a product of intuition. I am unable to preconceive of an image and make art reliably. It has to come from a place I cannot speak to directly. It has to come in its own time. This facet of my work comes from somewhere different than the part of my brain I...
by Daigo Hashimoto | Jan 14, 2026 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Events, Japan, Regions
～気候危機がもたらす臨床の変化と、リハビリテーション専門職の新たな役割～ 2025年11月20日（木）、環境理学療法協会（Environmental Physiotherapy Association: EPA）が主催する「EPA regions roundtables in Japan」がオンラインにて開催されました。本イベントは、EPAが世界各地で同日に開催するグローバルイベントの一環であり、日本国内のみならず海外在住の理学療法士も含め、16名が集まりました。 開催の背景と基調講演 ...
