"Frustrating disability": The lived experience of coping with the rehabilitation phase following flexor tendon surgery

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 143-154

  Fitzpatrick, Niall ^a   Finlay, Linda ^b  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disability; Existential issues; Hand surgery; Lived experience; Phenomenological analysis; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949131752     PISSN: 17482623     EISSN: 17482631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17482620802130407     Document Type: Article

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