This week, the Moving Bodies Lab lead Prof. Cassie Phoenix was invited to speak at a Association of Anaesthetists Core Topics event in Newcastle. The day brought together anaesthetists and related professionals from within health and social care from across the country for structured continuing professional development (CPD) and essential clinical updates.
In her presentation, Cassie spoke of the health and wellbeing benefits of physical activity across the life course and its description within some medical settings as a “miracle cure” – having huge potential in both prevention and treatment of various health conditions.
Given its significance, she subsequently focused on the patterns of structural inequalities that can prevent certain groups from engaging in physical activity and benefitting from such positive health and well-being impacts.
Cassie closed by reaffirming the essential role of movement in people’s health and wellbeing, signalling how the social sciences, arts and humanities are central to expanding our understandings and ways of researching physical activity that acknowledge its political, relational, and affective dimensions; thinking beyond ‘moving muscles’ to ‘moving people’.
Interacting with different audiences and professions is undoubtedly one of the most rewarding aspects of life within the Moving Bodies Lab, and this day did not disappoint!
