School of Physiotherapy, Auckland University of Technology, Akoranga Campus, Auckland, New Zealand.
Physiother Theory Pract. 2010 Nov;26(8):497-509. doi: 10.3109/09593981003710316. Epub 2010 Aug 26.
In recent years, physiotherapists have been increasingly interested in defining their professional identity. At the heart of this interest lies a fundamental question about the role that the body plays in defining physiotherapy practice. Given the importance of the body to physiotherapy, it is surprising how under-theorized the body is in existing physiotherapy literature. With a few notable exceptions, the body as a philosophical/theoretical construct has been almost entirely bypassed by the profession. In this paper the authors argue that a renewed interest in the meaning given to the body by physiotherapists is timely, and offer a sociohistorical critique of the role the body has played in defining physiotherapy practice. We challenge physiotherapists' longstanding affinity with a biomechanical view of the body, arguing that whilst this approach may have been critically important in the past, it is now increasingly clear that a more diverse and inclusive approach to the body will be needed in the future. The authors explore the notion of embodiment and suggest ways in which embodiment theory might be applied to physiotherapy practice.
近年来，物理治疗师越来越关注定义自己的专业身份。这种兴趣的核心是一个关于身体在定义物理治疗实践中所扮演的角色的基本问题。鉴于身体对物理治疗的重要性，令人惊讶的是，现有的物理治疗文献中对身体的理论化程度是如此之低。除了少数几个值得注意的例外，身体作为一个哲学/理论结构，几乎完全被这个专业所忽略。在本文中，作者认为，重新关注物理治疗师赋予身体的意义是及时的，并对身体在定义物理治疗实践中所扮演的角色进行了社会历史批判。我们挑战物理治疗师长期以来对身体的生物力学观点的亲和力，认为尽管这种方法在过去可能是至关重要的，但现在越来越明显的是，未来需要对身体采取更加多样化和包容性的方法。作者探讨了体现的概念，并提出了体现理论如何应用于物理治疗实践的方法。
