Final author meets readers: Sarah Schwab-Farrell on critical experimental studies & disrupting normalisation
February 23 at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time
For the very last of the ‘authors meets readers’ series, Sarah Schwab-Ferrell will be available to discuss her chapter Destabilising the norm: A critical experimental approach to move physiotherapy beyond movement normalisation.
Her chapter, and the rest of the Inviting Movements in Physiotherapy book, can be found here, free to download: https://escholarship.umanitoba.ca/projects/imip/#pdf
Their chapter remind us how “normality” is largely rooted in socio-political structures and a Global North association with “good” - an issue familiar to many in our Network. What’s new is that Schwab-Farrell and colleagues argue for and model additional strategies to “destabilise the use of non-disabled norms as a guiding principle for physiotherapy practice and to catalyse a new model of practice”.
The additional strategy they demonstrate is the weaving together of critical theory with the clinical trial. The methodology is familiar for physiotherapists, while postmodern critical theory may not be. In their trial studying adaptive postural movements by people after strokes, they highlight how the physiotherapy tendency toward normalisation “often works against the efforts of people to find and make viable alternative movement possibilities for everyday task performance”.
The session will occur Feb 23rd, at 11 am Eastern Standard Time over Zoom:
https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/j/85898366989
Meeting ID: 858 9836 6989
Be sure to add this into your calendar and we look forward to a good discussion!
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