Movement, touch and talk in Norwegian psychomotor physiotherapy.

People suffering from musculoskeletal disorders are frequently treated by physiotherapists using a wide variety of therapeutic approaches. In debates over the relative merits of hands-on and hands-off therapies, proponents of hands-off methods have argued that hands-on clinical work turn patients into «passive» recipients. But this is a simplistic proposition.

Physical education classes - a double-edged sword: a qualitative study of Norwegian high-school students' experiences.

: The aim of this study was to explore students' experiences of physical education (PE) and to gain insight into what contributes to engaging them in PE.: A total of 316 second-year high-school students from five schools participated by completing a school assignment. The data were analyzed according to content analysis.

The quantified self: closing the gap between general knowledge and particular case?

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: This paper addresses the movements 'evidence-based' (EBM) and 'personalized' (PM) medicine. The former is being criticized for failing to do justice to clinical complexity and human individuality. The latter aims at tailoring medical knowledge for every patient in a personalized fashion.

The association between timed up and go test and history of falls: the Tromsø study.

Background: Fall-related injuries in older adults are a major health problem. Although the aetiology of falls is multifactorial, physical factors are assumed to contribute significantly. The "Timed up and go test" (TUG) is designed to measure basic mobility function.

Face-to-face and hands-on: assumptions and assessments in the physiotherapy clinic.

Drawing on findings from physiotherapy practice, this article discusses several interrelated concerns that are highly relevant for health care research: How do professionals constitute their very object--"the body"--and what are the connections between professionals' views of the body, their approaches to it, and patient participation? By providing a comparative analysis of two first encounters in physiotherapy, where patients' musculoskeletal disorders are assessed, I show how variously physiotherapists can practice and reason. One therapist is guided by assumptions deriving from the biomedical sciences, the other by an understanding of the body as the center of experience and field of expression. I show that the status clinicians ascribe to the body has important implications for what kind of information they regard as relevant, and I argue that the diversities accounted for provide unequal possibilities for collaboration and patient participation.