About the Project
The stories patients tell may powerfully communicate their experiences related to illness. The medical history taken by the physiotherapists however represents the patients’ illness from the therapists’ perspective.
The project aims at physiotherapists working in the primary health services and patients with long lasting muscle pain. Muscle-skeletal pain represents a major health problem. Patients with these kinds of symptoms are common among physiotherapists, yet also difficult to treat.
Objectives
To provide an expanded understanding of physical therapy and recovery, and to improve the kinds of treatment given to people with chronic pain in primary health care.
Background
The study is theoretically inspired by narrative theory and method. Narrative is seen as a fundamental way of giving meaning to experience, and also a form which guides actions in clinical practice. Data is produced through observations and interviews.
Financing
The project is financially supported by the Norwegian Fund for Post-Graduate training in Physiotherapy.
Project start and finish
April, 2014 - March, 2016