Dogma, Physiotherapy, and the Sociopolitical Field
taking a step back
As an aspiring clinician, I felt pressured to become familiar with the field’s foundational concepts, and to be a skilled follower of its basic tenets. Much like converting to a new religion, physiotherapy calls us to ‘abandon a corrupt set of beliefs … and then with the force of revelatory discovery, to be moved into the the light of truth’ 1 We are stripped naked and baptised in the presuppositions of our profession, becoming One with those who came before us, knowing what they know so that we…