Article

Having spent their first century anchored to a biomedical model of practice,
physiotherapists have been increasingly interested in exploring new models and
concepts that will better equip them for serving the health-care needs of 21st
century clients/patients. Connectivity offers one such model. With an extensive
philosophical background in phenomenology, symbolic interactionism,
structuralism, and postmodern research, connectivity resists the prevailing
western biomedical view that health professionals should aim to increase people's
independence and autonomy, preferring instead to identify and amplify
opportunities for collaboration and co-dependence.
Connectivity critiques the
normalization that underpins modern health care, arguing that our constant search
for deviance is building stigma and discrimination into our everyday practice. It
offers provocative opportunities for physiotherapists to rethink some of the
fundamental tenets of their profession and better align physiotherapy with 21st
century societal expectations.
In this paper, we provide a background to the
place connectivity may play in future health care, and most especially future
physiotherapy practice. The paper examines some of the philosophical antecedents
that have made connectivity an increasingly interesting and challenging concept in health care today.

Langue : ANGLAIS