HSS III: Environmental Physiotherapy and Sustainability

Heat, air, sidewalks, and the clinic's own footprint. Four modules on adapting prescriptions to the environment, auditing a neighborhood, cutting clinic emissions, and advocating for the decision that outlasts a hundred prescriptions. About 48 minutes.

Prescribe for the air and the heat

Heat, smoke, and storms change what a safe exercise prescription looks like. Learn to read the forecast as a clinical variable.

Audit the neighborhood

Walk the streets your patients use. Sidewalks, bike lanes, and parks decide whether a home program is possible at all.

Cut emissions, then advocate

Measure the clinic's own footprint and trim it. Then take the evidence to the meeting where the decision that outlasts a hundred prescriptions gets made.

About the course

HSS III is the third course in the BrainSmith Health Systems Science series. It looks at the environment around the patient and around the clinic. Across four modules you will cover planetary health and the Anthropocene, the built environment and active transport, sustainable clinical operations, and climate justice and community advocacy. Each module pairs a short video with a ten question knowledge check, and the course ends with a final quiz. About 48 minutes of video. Included with your BrainSmith membership.

Eric Robertson consulting with a patient in the clinic

Eric Robertson, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT

Eric Robertson is a co-founder of BrainSmith and a physical therapy educator with nearly two decades on DPT faculty. He teaches at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, serves on the IFOMPT Standards Committee, and hosts the PT Outcast podcast. His work focuses on primary care physical therapy, health systems science, clinical reasoning, and curricular innovation.

Curriculum

6 Chapters · 10 Lessons

1. (Included in full purchase)
  Welcome to HSS III
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  Module 1: Planetary Health and the Anthropocene
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  Knowledge check 1
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  Module 2: The Built Environment and Active Transport
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  Knowledge check 2
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  Module 3: Sustainable Clinical Operations
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  Knowledge check 3
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  Module 4: Climate Justice and Community Advocacy
2. (Included in full purchase)
  Knowledge check 4
1. (Included in full purchase)
  Final quiz

Ready for HSS III?

Log in to your BrainSmith membership to start HSS III. Four modules, four knowledge checks and a final quiz, about 48 minutes.

Please contact us for access.