by Emmanuelle Opsommer | Oct 28, 2026 | Environmental Sustainability, Muskuloskeletal Health
Current guidelines for chronic spinal pain mainly recommend conservative, non-pharmacological care. Yet one dimension is largely missing: the environmental impact of how this care is delivered. Our international modified Delphi study asked physiotherapists from...
by Polina Boiko | Apr 7, 2026 | Environmental Sustainability
A few years ago, I shared here my decision to pursue a master’s degree in environmental sciences (Boiko, 2021). Today I’m excited to give an important update: my master’s thesis was recently published in a peer-reviewed journal, presenting what appears to be the first...
by Jessica Stanhope | Mar 25, 2026 | Environmental Sustainability, Nature-based interventions
The original green prescriptions Green prescriptions are prescriptions to spend time in green space, right? Not necessarily. A “green prescription” was a term first coined in New Zealand in the 1990s to describe a written prescriptions for physical activity made by a...
by Fanny Poget | Aug 19, 2025 | Active Transport, Advocacy, Clinical Practice, Disaster relief and humanitarian emergenciess, Environmental Physiotherapy, Environmental Sustainability
Face à l’urgence climatique et aux inégalités sociales croissantes, les professionnel·les de la santé et du social se retrouvent à un carrefour décisif : comment soigner les populations humaines tout en prenant soin de la planète, qui elle-même influence notre santé ?...
by Lia Evans | Feb 20, 2025 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Environmental Sustainability
I was initially drawn to the environmental aspect of the GB Row Challenge, I thought that collecting environmental DNA and microplastic data from the UK coastline was a genius way of giving reason and justification to the trip of a lifetime. I was unable to finish the...
by Caitlyn Socwell | Feb 3, 2025 | Circular Economy, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Physiotherapy, Environmental Sustainability, Transdisciplinarity
In 2018, my life was changed forever. My sustainable lightbulb moment happened whilst on a camping trip to regional Victoria, Australia in the Yarra Valley. My small group of friends and I sat on the bank of the Goulburn River at the back of a cherry tree farm –...
