If you are interested in why physiotherapy looks the way it does today, or in what its future might hold, this table offers a starting point for thinking through these questions. The table emerged from my PhD research on the changing conceptions of the body in physiotherapy and first appeared in a 2026 paper theorizing the concept of the body in physiotherapy. It brings socioeconomic, technological, and medical transformations into conversation to consider how they have shaped what…

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? - Friedrich Nietzsche ¹   

This blog is in response to a twitter thread where it dawned on me that very few of us physiotherapists understand the political water that we are swimming in. So I thought of writing a blog that highlights the possible dangers of self-efficacy, person-centered care, or the biopsychosocial model and how it might intersect with a “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” approach to health. Specifically, I am exploring the questions “how much are we paying attention to the individual?”,…