Let me share a bit more about myself, Nelly Darbois, the founder, editor, and writer of this website (formerly kinedarbois.fr, now Fonto Media)!
🎯 Why did I want to create this website?
I launched this website in 2019 to address questions from my patients as a physiotherapist. These questions often required me to consult scientific publications or regulatory texts. I wanted to make this knowledge accessible to a wider audience, aiming to enhance the quality of information available on the internet.
As I progressed in my professional journey, I started writing about other subjects in which I gained knowledge and experience: the healthcare system, working as an independent professional, and communication.
🏢 Who am I professionally?
I graduated as a physiotherapist in 2012. I subsequently worked as a physiotherapist in various hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and in private practice, in France.
Simultaneously, I’ve always been engaged in other professional and association activities related to research, teaching, consulting, or scientific writing.
Since August 2023, I split my professional time between two activities:
- Editing and writing articles on Fonto Media (= the website you’re currently on, which I created in 2019 🙂)
- Providing Wikipedia consulting and writing services for individuals, institutions, associations, or businesses.
🎤 Interviews: I speak in other media
- Podcast Scepticisme scientifique, where I discuss my thesis in physiotherapy on fasciatherapy. February 2016. Interviewed by Jérémy Royaux.
- 2018 General Medicine Interns Congress focusing on independence in healthcare. What is critical thinking in healthcare?
- 2019 Articles & podcasts in Esperanto here
- Revue Kiné Actualité. Albin Guillaud and Nelly Darbois, physiotherapists and candidates in the legislative elections. June 2022. Interviewed by Sophie Conrard.
- Collaboration Cochrane. . Interview as a collaborator of this international association, which works to help people make well-informed decisions in healthcare by preparing, maintaining, and ensuring accessibility to systematic reviews on the effects of health interventions. Spring 2022.
- Laboratoire Sensilia. Interview on why I started writing articles about CBD. March 2023. By Pauline Durepaire.
- Interview for the “Big Data” media on my experience with SEO, April 2023.
- Interview for the podcast KineMania, May 2023
- Interview about my blogging activity, May 2023.
🎓My experiences, degrees, and teaching and research activities
For those who value degrees and past experiences, particularly in the academic world.
- State Diploma (DE) in physiotherapy in 2012, Institut en formation de masso-kinésithérapie de Grenoble
- Master’s degree in Adapted Physical Activities in Science and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities in 2012, UFRAPS de Grenoble
- Master’s degree in Research Methodology for Health Learning, Université Grenoble-Alpes
I have co-authored several articles published in international scientific journals.
- Darbois N, Guillaud A, Pinsault N. Do Robotics and Virtual Reality Add Real Progress to Mirror Therapy Rehabilitation? A Scoping Review. Rehabilitation Research and Practice, 2018.
- Ravault L, Darbois N, Pinsault N. Methodological Considerations to Investigate Dosage Parameters of Intensive Upper Limb Rehabilitation in Children with Unilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy: A Scoping Review of RCTs. Dev Neurorehabil. 2019 Nov 11:1-12
- Guillaud A, Darbois N, Monvoisin R, Pinsault N. Reliability of diagnosis and clinical efficacy of visceral osteopathy: a systematic review. BMC Complementary and alternative medicine, 2018, volume 18.
- Guillaud A, Darbois N, Monvoisin R, Pinsault N. Reliability of Diagnosis and Clinical Efficacy of Cranial Osteopathy: A Systematic Review. Plos One, 2016, volume 11.
- Darbois N, Evain JN, Guillaud A, Lilot M, Pinsault N. Une opération à cœur ouvert sous acupuncture ? Décryptage d’un émission diffusée sur France 2. Santé Publique, 2018, volume 30.
- Darbois N, Guillaud A, Pinsault N. Influences of the pharmaceutical and device industries on health students: could they be controlled by institutional policy? A systematic review. Internacia medicina revuo. Vol 28 n°112, 2019.
- Guillaud, A., Darbois, N., Pinsault, N., & Allenet, B. (2018). Predictive factors of complementary and alternative medicine use in the general population in Europe: A systematic review. Complementary therapies in medicine.
- Guillaud A, Darbois N, Riboud C, Dolgopoloff M, Allenet B, Pinsault N. Développement, validation et fiabilité d’un questionnaire pour l’évaluation du recours aux thérapeutes alternatifs : QuERTA. Sante Publique. 2019 November-December;31(6):817-826. French. doi: 10.3917/spub.196.0817. PMID: 32550664.
Lastly, I engage in voluntary activities in teaching and research.
- I review articles every month for the journal Prescrire, an independent medical journal free from government and industry influence. More sporadically for the journals Kinésithérapie la revue and Developmental Neurorehabilitation.
- I participate in selecting and evaluating studies for the synthesis of scientific literature through the non-profit International Cochrane Association, via the Cochrane citizen scientist.
- External supervisor for research theses of physiotherapy students or other health-related fields.
- I create and improve articles on Wikipedia related to health topics.
🏥 My previous professional experiences as a physiotherapist
- Between 2012 and 2014, I worked as a physiotherapist in various healthcare facilities in France (hospitals and rehabilitation centers) across different departments: physical medicine and rehabilitation, intensive care, traumatology, neurology, pediatrics, and more.
- From 2014 to 2017, I worked as a physiotherapist at the Métropole Savoie Hospital Center in Chambéry, in various departments.
- From 2018 to 2019, I worked in two healthcare facilities in my town, Saint-Alban Leysse: at the Rehabilitation Center of the French Red Cross (adults) and at the Motor Education Center of Accueil Savoie Handicap (children).
- From 2019 to 2023, I worked as an independent home-based physiotherapist exclusively in the town of Saint-Alban Leysse in Savoie.
👩 Who am I personally?
I’m 33 years old (in 2023). I live in Savoie, in the French Alps, a region I adore.
I enjoy spending time with my loved ones, walking and running, reading, eating, and getting involved in causes I consider fair and important. Mainly for enhanced citizen control of our institutions through direct democracy.
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