@article{ref1,
title="Embodiment and self in reorientation to everyday life following severe traumatic brain injury",
journal="Physiotherapy theory and practice",
year="2014",
author="Sivertsen, Marianne and Normann, Britt",
volume="31",
number="3",
pages="153-159",
abstract="People with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) are often young and need long-term follow-up as many suffer complex motor, sensory, perceptual and cognitive impairments. This paper aims to introduce phenomenological notions of embodiment and self as a framework to help understand how people with sTBI experience reorientation to everyday life, and to inform clinical practice in neurological physiotherapy. The impairments caused by the sTBI may lead to a sense of alienation of ones own body and changes in operative intentionality and in turn disrupt the reorganization of self, identity, everyday life and integration/co-construction of meaning with others. Applying a first-person conception of the body may extend insights into the importance of an adapted and individualized approach to strengthen the sensory, perceptual and motor body functions, which underpin the pre-reflective and reflective aspects of the self. It seems important to integrate these aspects, while also paying attention to optimizing co-construction of meaning for the person with sTBI in the treatment context. This requires understanding the patient as an experiencing and expressive body, a lived body (body-as-subject) and not just the body-as-object as is favored in more traditional frameworks of physiotherapy.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0959-3985",
doi="10.3109/09593985.2014.986350",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09593985.2014.986350"
}