by Arthur Desachy | Apr 6, 2020 | Students in EPT
À l’heure d’une prise de conscience populaire des modifications climatiques et de l’impact humain sur notre environnement, il est temps de proposer des actions concrètes pour réduire notre impact sur le climat. Pour rappel, selon l’IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on...
by Filip Maric | Mar 26, 2020 | Clinical Practice, Events
Having started in march 2007 in Sydney, Australia, Earth Hour has become one of the world’s largest grassroots movements for the environment. And though we find ourselves in a peculiar moment in human history amidst the COVID-19 crisis, which puts a particular...
by Filip Maric | Mar 19, 2020 | Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Human-Animal Relations
I remain unsure how to start this blogpost. The only thing that seems fairly clear is that I am trying to make sense of the current COVID-19 pandemic and I suspect that the same is true for many others. Because of my recent preoccupation with the implicit and explicit...
by Olivia Stone | Mar 11, 2020 | Clinic Design, Physiotherapy Education
The move towards an environmentally sustainable teaching facility for clinical physiotherapy practice or even a private community practice is a challenging task. We asked our staff and students what they would like to see changed. The younger staff and students, who...
by Filip Maric | Mar 2, 2020 | Physiotherapy Education, SDGs, Students in EPT
Over the last 3 months, the EPA exec and a group of EPA members have steadily been working on our biggest project yet and we are beyond excited to finally launch it today: The Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2023 The Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2023 (EPT...
by Marion Kennedy | Feb 10, 2020 | Clinical Practice, Events
On 26 of November 2019, a group of members of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA) came together in a live-streamed online roundtable to talk about what environmental physiotherapy is, could and should be. This group had come together as our profession...
by David Nicholls | Jan 31, 2020 | Environmental Philosophies
“The ploughing’s done. The seed is spread. The weather is reminding me that, rain or shine, the earth abides, the land endures, the soil will persevere forever and a day. Its smell is pungent and high-seasoned. This is happiness.” Jim Crace, The...
by Evan Thomas | Jan 27, 2020 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice
After launching the EPA a few months ago, it quickly became clear that one of the topics that had huge interest behind them was about what physiotherapy clinicians, clinic owners and teams could do to be more environmentally responsible in their day-to-day clinical...
by Hannah Krappmann | Jan 24, 2020 | Events
New EPA member Hannah Krappmann is grabing the bull by its horns and will be presenting her thoughts on sustainability in physiotherapy at the TheraPro Fair and Congress in Stuttgart Germany between 07.-09.02.2020. Hannah also serves as a current board member in the...
by Alma Viviana Silva | Jan 20, 2020 | Environmental Philosophies, Events
Toward the end of last year, an incredibly inspiring and creative meeting took place amongst physiotherapists in Latin America. Though it was the first Latin-American meeting of the Critical Physiotherapy Network (CPN), it was a place and occasion that explored the...
by Filip Maric | Jan 6, 2020 | Clinical Practice, Physiotherapy Education, Physiotherapy Research, SDGs
The beginning of this New Year also marks the beginning of a new decade that is widely considered crucial for the future of human health and flourishing. With that in mind, it seems pertinent that we begin the year with a topic that we haven’t covered very...
by Filip Maric | Dec 22, 2019 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Philosophies
Fitting the time of reflection that is this time of the year, over the last few weeks I’ve been reflecting a lot on what it is that actually brought me to thinking about environmental physiotherapy. In many ways, these reflections were actually inspired by the...
by Filip Maric | Dec 4, 2019 | Clinical Practice, Communication
A few weeks ago the inaugural Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA) executive committee met for the first ever online meeting to get to know each other, get an understanding of the status quo of the association 3 months after it’s official launch and...
by David Nicholls | Nov 28, 2019 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Philosophies
As a physio, I’ve always been drawn to lung disease, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say I’m drawn to people who are suffering with lung diseases. But then that’s not exactly right either, because I’m really fascinated by how the lungs work (did you know that...
by Filip Maric | Nov 19, 2019 | Events
On Tuesday 26 November 2019 a group of members of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA) will be coming together in an online roundtable to talk about what environmental physiotherapy is, could, and should be going forward. The event will be live-streamed...
by Filip Maric | Oct 30, 2019 | Clinical Practice
As we embark on the journey of developing and practising an environmentally responsible physiotherapy, it seems of paramount importance to recognise that we are not setting out in a vacuum. There is a considerable number of quite readily available approaches for...
by Issie Long | Oct 24, 2019 | Clinical Practice, Physiotherapy Education, Students in EPT
Since the launch of the EPA physiotherapy students from around the world continue to join the association. Their enthusiasm for the subject field is evident in the comments, thoughts, concerns and energy they bring as they join, and, just like in the ongoing worldwide...
