Én helse, bærekraft og fysioterapi med hest

by Tobba Sudmann | Jan 26, 2022 | Animals in PT, Environmental Sustainability, Human-Animal Relations, One Health, SDGs

I en nylig publisert podcast diskuterer Professor Tobba Sudmann folkehelse og bærekraft. Sudmann er fysioterapeut, så bærekraft og fysioterapi bli tatt opp med jevne mellomrom.  Hun er opptatt av sammenhengen mellom hvordan vi lever, hva vi gjør og hvordan vi tenker...

New Physioplus course on sustainable healthcare and environmental physiotherapy

by Srishti Banerjee | Jan 18, 2022 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Physiotherapy, Environmental Sustainability, SDGs

Climate change and sustainability are at the forefront of current events. According to the United Nations, we are experiencing accelerated global warming due to human activities and it will take a united effort to slow this trend. Hypothetically if global health care...

How physiotherapists can contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in low- and middle-income countries

by Woyram Kofi-Bediako | Oct 24, 2021 | Clinical Practice, SDGs

The global economic recession following the COVID-19 pandemic, along with changes in climate patterns has magnified already existing global challenges that numerous countries are facing. The urgency to achieve the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has...

The Environmental Physiotherapy Association joins the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

by Filip Maric | Aug 6, 2021 | SDGs

These are exciting times for environmental physiotherapy! Nearly exactly two years since the inception of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA), we are proud and delighted to say that we have become a member of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions...

A call to include a perspective of sustainable development in physical therapy research

by Annie Palstam | Apr 22, 2021 | Environmental Sustainability, Physiotherapy Research, SDGs

It is about time physiotherapists realize our potential as a profession that could make vital contributions to sustainable development, in healthcare and in society as a whole. Global environmental changes, such as climate change and loss of biodiversity, greatly...

Physiotherapy and the Sustainable Development Goals – A students perspective

by Jordan Spencer | Mar 4, 2021 | SDGs, Students in EPT

Now more than ever it feels necessary to, at a very minimum, encourage deliberation on the importance of adopting more sustainable practices in physiotherapy. Major fields such as engineering and fashion have already begun the process of teaching students about...