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1School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
|October 3, 2022
Summary
Physiotherapists debate therapeutic touch due to COVID-19 and technology. Machine ontology offers a new, inclusive philosophy for physical therapies, moving beyond limited bio-physical or inter-subjective views.
Area of Science:
- Physiotherapy
- Philosophy of Science
- Phenomenology
Background:
- Therapeutic touch in physiotherapy is under renewed debate.
- The COVID-19 pandemic and rise of virtual technologies have increased uncertainty.
- Existing philosophies of touch are limited, failing to account for existential and socio-cultural aspects.
Purpose of the Study:
- To theorize how touch operates and becomes therapeutic in physiotherapy.
- To critique existing approaches to therapeutic touch.
- To propose machine ontology as a more robust framework for understanding touch.
Main Methods:
- Literature review and critique of existing philosophical approaches to touch.
- Application of Gilles Deleuze's machine ontology to physiotherapy.
- Theoretical analysis of touch within a broader cosmic and existential context.
Main Results:
- Current physiotherapy approaches to touch are paradoxically reductive and vague.
- Existing bio-physical and inter-subjective models are insufficient.
- Machine ontology offers a more inclusive and comprehensive philosophy of touch.
Conclusions:
- A new philosophical framework is needed for therapeutic touch in physiotherapy.
- Machine ontology provides a robust alternative to current limited approaches.
- This approach opens radical new possibilities for physical therapies.
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