by Berta Paz Lourido | Nov 25, 2025 | Advocacy, Global warming, Planetary Health, Policy development
On 15 May 2025, the World Health Assembly (WHO) adopted the inaugural Global Action Plan on Climate Change and Health (2025–2028) during the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78). The plan aligns with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and...
by Srishti Banerjee | Nov 28, 2024 | Environmental Sustainability, Global warming, Physiotherapy Education, Physiotherapy Research
In the recent years as awareness of climate change and environmental degradation has heightened, so too has the scrutiny on human activities and their ecological footprints. Research and education are not exempt from their own environmental impacts. Laboratories hum...
by Sibyl Edward | Oct 25, 2024 | Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Physiotherapy, Global warming
How often have you heard a patient say, “This weather… oh, my arthritic knees”! Some patients say that with such conviction, but is there a correlation between weather changes and arthritic pain? Osteoarthritis (OA) is characterized by synovial inflammation, articular...
by Amanda Maddern | Jul 3, 2024 | Biodiversity, EcoHealth, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Physiotherapy, Environmental Sustainability, Global warming, Greenspace Exposure, Planetary Health, SDGs
Between the dates of the October 6-8 2023, Brisbane, Australia became home of the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s national conference, IGNITE 2023. I was fortunate enough to attend this conference and was excited and inspired by the keynote presentation titled,...
by Matt erb | Jun 12, 2024 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Global warming, Mental Health, Mindfulness
While the physiotherapy profession continues to grapple with how to address an entrenched split between mind and body in health care, we are facing an even larger challenge: a disconnect from the natural world. The concept of integrative health as applied to...
by Monica Roe | May 2, 2023 | Clinical Practice, Disability, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Physiotherapy, Global warming
There used to be a runway made of ice. Every winter, when the wild Bering Sea solidified between the tiny village of Little Diomede and the military outpost at nearby Big Diomede, the United States and Russia was temporarily connected by a thick, two-mile stretch....
