No longer hip: Losing my balance and adapting to what ails me

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-19

  Ellis, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

ageing; autoethnography; biographical disruption; chronic pain; osteoarthritis; personal narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894081837     PISSN: 2159676X     EISSN: 1939845X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2014.880505     Document Type: Article

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