For those in “sydney” - www.instagram.com/p/DUaRQWukiqa 🌱

📍Gadigal/Wangal land - Self defence 🥊 - Growing food 🥕 - Outdoor strength training 💪 - Radical education 🧠 Interested? DM for Signal group chats 📩

Workshops I can facilitate at Jura Books. I just need interest to make one of these happen, message me if keen: - Good Conflict in Community - Anarchist Reading Groups - Not A Set Doctrine - Radical Education - Accountability Workshop - Mutual Aid Social Therapy - Maps of Care

In critical physiotherapy the “human” is deeply political: humanity is embedded in history, shaped by it and myriad social forces, & conditioned by relations of power in which some are able to assert their status & privilege at the expense of others. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37688439/

👋 friends in Sydney I’m looking for medical and health professionals who bulk bill or offer low-cost services for patients. Please message me 🙏

Free Communication Skills Workshop this Saturday @ Jura Books

The limit of static theories and the need for a philosophy of movement. @neilmaltby.bsky.social @mandhc.bsky.social @diarmuiddenneny.bsky.social @danielarbilla.bsky.social @eivinden.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/mattlow9...

I had the pleasure of presenting at the New Zealand Pain Society Conference this week 😍 I spoke about the complexities of clinical practice when providing evidence-based practice to people with chronic low back pain & linked them to the conference theme of “equitable outcomes in pain care”

Know someone in Sydney who’d be interested in free outdoor group strength training? Send me a DM 📩

It often takes me a few goes to understand words like ontology, epistemology, positivist and constructivist…The breakdown in the paper is gold! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34457699/

“System (eg. biomedical orientation), organisational (eg. key performance indicators) and professional (eg. identity as expert) factors compete with person-centred rehabilitation” Great work by Prof Nicola Kayes journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“Listen to me, learn from me & hear what I’m telling you, it makes me feel like my concerns have been understood” “Provide a holistic approach to my care that is tailored & looks after my physical, mental, occupational, social, spiritual & intellectual needs” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35384928/

4 of the themes describe what it means to live with chronic pain & 6 of the themes describe what it means to be on a healing journey with pain. “A Healing Journey with Chronic Pain: A Meta-Ethnography Synthesising 195 Qualitative Studies” academic.oup.com/painmedicine...

Political, economic, and cultural systems regulate social relations at a societal level, and define resource distribution, impacting pain prevalence and treatment access. Ideas are organised into three broad categories; justice, access and knowledge www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What determinants play a key role in the lived experience of persistent pain and recovery? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Connections on Gadigal land 👋 Looking for a second-hand: 🌟 Fridge (medium-sized) 🌟 Stainless steel frypan 🌟 Salad bowls Do you have one of these? Please DM 📩

What I’ve learnt over the past year or so: - Most clinicians refuse to learn about politics or social theory - The ‘social’ in BPS is rarely addressed - Physical therapists need and deserve clinical supervision - Education, research and health systems value capital > lived experience

Looking for people involved in: - Social anarchism - Decolonising - Queer liberation - Disability justice - Fat liberation - Mutual aid and direct actions - Transformative justice and abolition - Indigenous resistance and sovereignty - Horizontal power systems - Degrowth Comment or DM 🙏

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Knowing “pain science” is not enough. Education can shift understanding, but we need more than just knowledge. We need self and community management, patient + community led research, universal access to healthcare, equitable and just systems, and structural change.

Signs of a reliable clinician 💚 👉 instagram.com/p/DEUHUKvxn6N

Practical Pain Management Presentation for a workshop at Jura Books youtu.be/P9rlZo3q_FY

this feels newly-relevant today: “It is a bad habit of the soul to celebrate anyone's death…but there are some people whose deaths come as a relief…because justice was never served for the acts of such a person. And relief is the closest thing to justice that people will experience.”

Its International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The theme is “Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future”. I am reminded that there is no disability justice without a free Palestine.

Freedom by any means 🔻

🧵 My top takeaways from #TASA2024 so far: - Clinicians would benefit greatly from learning about social theories. Within current educational systems, this starts with tutors and lecturers - Mass media manufactures discrimination, with real harms for patients who are already marginalised

Privileged to be at TASA Conference @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social

It has occurred to me I haven't been posting enough memes on this app Apologies, I will do better

If your goal is a livable income for you and your community, secure housing and a survivable climate - you must also fight transphobia, homophobia, misogyny and racism. circlethewolves.substack.com/p/fascism-an...