Embodiment and chronic pain: Implications for rehabilitation practice

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 100-109

  Bullington, Jennifer ^a  

^a Ersta Skondal University College   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Embodiment; Merleau Ponty; Phenomenology; Psychosomatic

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISABILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; REHABILITATION CARE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; PAIN; SELF CONCEPT; SELF PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 67349097927     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10728-008-0109-5     Document Type: Article

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