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IntroductionObjectiveMethodFindingsConclusionIn Norway, as elsewhere, young people may experience psychological distress and long-lasting pain. Such health disorders can be complex, leading some young people to seek psychomotor physiotherapy treatment. Thus far, however, there has been little qualitative investigation of their experiences.The purpose of this study was to gain new knowledge about the illness experiences of young people with long-term health disorders engaging psychomotor physiotherapy.Qualitative interviews with ten Norwegian women aged 16–24 in psychomotor physiotherapy were analyzed within a narrative framework.The participants’ treatment experiences take place in the context of a long history of pain, distress, and lack of understanding and support. Their stories tell of being threatened by illness and other difficult life events, and of being placed under further stress by a prolonged and disruptive quest for help within the healthcare system. For participants, psychomotor physiotherapy represents a breathing space where their illness experiences are acknowledged, enabling them to find rest and explore their bodily reactions and habits.Long-term health disorders represent significant disruptions to the daily lives and relationships of young women. It is important to acknowledge the illness experiences of these young women and establish trustful therapeutic relationships. Psychomotor physiotherapy may offer significant potential as a means to help young people explore and make sense of their illness experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic musculoskeletal pain and fatigue condition. Despite extensive research, there is currently no known therapy leading to a cure for FMS. Although studies have reported that some patients can regain their health, little is known about their personal process of becoming well. This study aimed to explore women's narratives about the process of recovering from FMS. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews of eight Norwegian women who all have previously had, but do not have FMS any more. Inspired by a narrative approach we analyzed their experiences of becoming better with a focus on recovery as a meaning-making process. The findings revealed a recovery process consisting of two intertwined narratives that are mutually nurturing each other. The first narrative telling moments of prompting changes refers to events during the recovery process where women understood themselves and their suffering in new ways and thereby enabled them to act in new ways or take further action. The second narrative a mundane process of rebuilding a tolerable daily life refers to a lasting, mundane everyday process of exploration how they initially should act to avoid becoming worse and, later, to promote improvement. Our findings show how the women explain their recovery in terms of overcoming fear of movement, making sense of their symptoms and becoming more active in everyday life. The close analysis reveals a recovery narrative portraying a complex and ambiguous process consisting of small dramas about the efforts trying to rebuild a meaningful life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BackgroundPurposeMethodsResultsConclusionPeer assisted learning (PAL), where student leaders facilitate their peers’ learning, is prevalent in higher education. However, PAL leaders’ development in physiotherapy education and their role perceptions relating to their future professional practice are understudied.We aimed to understand how PAL leaders in physiotherapy education perceive their own academic learning and personal development, and how they view their experiences as PAL leaders in relation to future physiotherapy practice.Focus group interviews were used to collect qualitative data from third-semester students who had been PAL leaders (n = 19). Data were analyzed using a reflexive, thematic analysis.Three main themes were generated: “Being a PAL leader consolidates knowledge and facilitates new learning,” “Personal growth through experiential learning outside the comfort zone within a community of practice,” and ”Learning by leading – transferability of being a PAL leader to future physiotherapy practice.”Overall, physiotherapy students leading PAL study groups demonstrated academic, personal, and professional growth via experiential learning in a community of practice. They developed skills likely transferable into their future physiotherapy roles. Our findings propose PAL study groups as an arena for PAL leaders to practice complex physiotherapy competences, positioning PAL study groups as valuable preclinical practice for physiotherapy students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore embodiment as a meaning-making experience in the daily life of Norwegian adults living with joint hypermobility syndrome/Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, hypermobility type (JHS/EDS-HT). The work of Drew Leder and his distinction between bodily dis- and dys-appearance contributes to the description and analysis of individuals' bodily experiences of living with this chronic illness., Methods: An explorative and qualitative design was applied to in-depth interviews with seven participants. The theoretical framework was phenomenological, and the method of analysis was thematic, involving descriptive and interpretative approaches., Results: Participants' bodily experiences were closely connected to a timeline viewing their illness in the past, the present and from future perspectives. The following central themes emerged from the data: (a) visible to invisible signs of a former body; (b) standing up and falling down of a present body; and (b) future thoughts of an inner and outer body., Conclusions: The study found that living with JHS/EDS-HT revealed complex experiences of having flexible bodies and restricted lives. Our findings also showed a meaning-making process of embodied experiences that evolved over time, as well as a sliding transition from social to personal dys-appearance. In the course of time, a bodily disruptions in social interactions comes to the fore, with invisible symptoms such as pain and fatigue. Individual bodily suffering determines the existence of hope or hopelessness regarding recovery from this condition., (© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.)