Distress in the care of people with chronic low back pain: insights from an ethnographic study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Distress is part of the experiences and care for people with chronic low back pain. However, distress is often pathologised and individualised; it is seen as a problem within the individual in pain and something to be downplayed, avoided, or fixed. To that end, we situate distress as a normal everyday relational experience circulating, affecting, moving in, through, and across bodies. Challenging practices that may amplify distress, we draw on the theorisation of affect as a relational assemblage to analyse physiotherapy clinical encounters in the care of people with chronic low back pain.

Methods

Adopting a critical reflexive ethnographic approach, we analyse data from a qualitative project involving 15 ethnographic observations of patient-physiotherapist inter

SUBMITTER: Dillon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10687466 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature