Perner S, Danielsson L. Exploring clinical reasoning in Austrian mental health physiotherapy: the physiotherapist´s perspective.
Physiother Theory Pract 2021;
38:2827-2840. [PMID:
34607511 DOI:
10.1080/09593985.2021.1986872]
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION
In mental health physiotherapy, there is a lack of research investigating the assumptions and clinical reasoning strategies of the professionals. A critical view on what is taken for granted within physiotherapy promotes professional development.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the essence of clinical reasoning of Austrian mental health physiotherapists, and to illuminate the meaning of their experiences.
METHOD
Ten semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with Austrian mental health physiotherapists. The transcripts were analyzed using a phenomenological hermeneutical method.
RESULTS
The informants' clinical reasoning emerged as a process of three perspectives: 1) a relational and interactional perspective; 2) a perspective of wholeness; and 3) a perspective of symptoms. The results were then further interpreted using the theories of intercorporeality and bodily resonance.
CONCLUSION
To bring the different clinical reasoning perspectives together to one clinical reasoning process, a discourse of reconciliation is suggested as a favorable strategy, which may be useful both in clinical practice and education.
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