CPN Guest Digest #208

Something for the weekend compiled by Clair Hebron:

Clair Hebron is based in the UK and is a physiotherapist and academic.

The theoretical, cultural, political, and environmental landscapes in which we work are powerful as illuminated in the links below, but are we aware of them?

1. Physiotherapists Both Reproduce and Resist Biomedical Dominance when Working With People With Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Study Towards New Praxis

2. Mâmawi-atoskêwin, “working together in partnership” – challenging Eurocentric physical therapy practice guided by Indigenous Métis worldview and knowledge

3. Physiotherapy as a disciplinary institution in modern society – a Foucauldian perspective on physiotherapy in Danish private practice — The disciplinary power of physiotherapy elucidated in article 3 and the quote “well I found it rather obvious with all the weight she carried….. I actually felt kind of nauseated, I mean how could she let herself become so fat?... I could not grip around her knee with my hand. I told her to lose weight before I could treat her”

4. Jessamyn yoga - Jessamyn has a series of fabulous videos

   

5. A critical perspective on stigma in physiotherapy: the example of weight stigma

6. Joy Nash’s internal dialogue resonates with this, and I suspect with many persons seeking healthcare and yet our websites, and department walls are still dominated by images of white, fit, slim folk. These symbolic images have power

   

7. Episodes 115-118 of the Philosophize this podcast are a nice introduction to semiotics, structuralism and postmodernism. Some of the links above highlight the power of the physiotherapy clinic, I wonder how physiotherapy will evolve to move more outside of the clinic wall (or curtains) and gyms and into the environment and what opportunities this may provide for us to explore how we use movement in creative ways.

8. Body Language

   

9. For me, the video on #8 really resonated with this paper: Phenomenological physiotherapy: extending the concept of bodily intentionality

10. Netflix film 'Crip Camp' — Resistance is highlighted in this wonderful documentary which raises many discussions related to ‘disability’ some of which are further considered in the later links

11. Implications of internalised ableism for the health and wellbeing of disabled young people

12. Missing pieces: A chronicle of living with disability

13. The effects of neoliberal policies on access to healthcare for people with disabilities — The neoliberal policies discussed in relation to physiotherapy in link 3 are discussed again here

14. The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science & Cultural Theory) (Science and Cultural Theory)

15. Critical resistance: from poststructuralism to post-critique