Living the Hard Times Out Loud
This beautiful poem by “a mother on a mission to help families and caregivers navigate life with differently-abled kids” presents the powerful story of Noah Williams. Noah lives an extraordinary life as an artist, athlete, and public speaker, as he deals daily with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and visual impairment. As Naomi’s words flow through the poem, they detail his lifelong struggle, and the love of people who join in his joy of living and help him navigate his days. “The best that is in him keeps unfolding into the spaces so many help open and hold.”
How Structural Oppression Has Shaped the Physical Therapy Profession and Access to Rehabilitative Services
Physical therapy has been practiced in the US for more than 100 years. But have rehabilitative services been the same for all Americans? These authors show how Black, Brown, and Indigenous People have not fully reaped the rewards of this, or any, aspect of the US healthcare system. They state that the nation’s “structural racism” continues to shape “exclusion of racialized persons from all levels of physical therapy.” They offer this article as a “first step in better understanding this history”—and in finding real solutions.
Towards a Global Knowledge Creation Strategy: Learning From Community-Based Rehabilitation
Community-based rehabilitation has been growing worldwide, in efforts to improve the lives of persons with disabilities within their own communities. This Perspective sheds light on the global development of CBR—and demonstrates the differences in rehabilitation research and practices between high-income countries and low-to-middle income countries. To reach all people in need, the authors suggest opportunities for “national collaboration to integrate knowledge between countries regardless of income categorization.”
Profiles in Professionalism With Susan S. Deusinger
[coauthors_plain] Download the article (pdf) Introduction The Profiles in Professionalism series featured in the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation seeks to explore the elusive yet crucial concept of professionalism and its role in the field of rehabilitation medicine. Providing insight through the words of visionary leaders, we seek to reflect on what it means to […]
“The Hat”
[coauthors_plain] Download the article (pdf) Table of Contents My husband was so strong, athletic, caring. I fell in love with him when I witnessed how gently and lovingly he cared for clients at a residential facility. We ran races together, finished a marathon, cycled, enjoyed life, and eventually adopted our daughter from Ukraine. A year […]
Ascents
[coauthors_plain] Download the article (pdf) Table of Contents Rock-hobbled pace: praiseproud, profane. Slow strolls aroundeach missing mountain. About the Author(s) Woods Nash, MPH, PhD Woods Nash, PhD, MPH is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. He works at the intersection of ethics, […]
Owed to the Fingers
[coauthors_plain] Download the article (pdf) Table of Contents Fingers make our lives go aroundThey snap and tap out daily soundsThey wave on a fetal ultrasoundAnd lower a coffin to the ground They peel and poke and prod and pluckAnd point with glee at a digger truckThey hide your mouth when you’re awestruckAnd clink a flute […]
Little Gestures
[coauthors_plain] Download the article (pdf) Table of Contents You turned the broken door handle,went inside, and here we are. The tools I have to help are few.But you don’t know how we can be bulls in china shops,thrushes thundering overhead, sometimes snapping crocodiles.My eyes dart downward and back up. I take a breath and nodand […]
“The Classroom, Clinic, and Community: What Can We Do With All Three?”
[coauthors_plain] Download the article (pdf) Table of Contents Congratulations to Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate student Mason Trauger (DeSales University), SPT, winner of the annual CHEP-JHR Student Essay Contest, co-sponsored by the ACAPT Consortium for the Humanities, Ethics, and Professionalism (CHEP) and the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation (JHR). This writing competition is designed to […]
Getting to the Heart of the Patient-Provider Interaction: A Novel Theoretical Framework
The complexity of the patient-provider interaction (PPI), and its effect on healing, is a much-debated topic. In this innovative article, the authors present a new approach to caring: The Compassionate H.E.A.R.T. Model of PPI. Based on an exhaustive review of the current literature, the model seeks to support a “more thorough view of the dyadic PPI.” By doing so, it offers a new guide for practitioners to help “ease, alleviate and relieve, therapeutically,” each encountered patient’s condition.