Seeing movement quality pedagogicly - Teaching aspects promoting movement quality in physiotherapy

Project summary

Background: The study builds on former studies concerning the phenomenon of movement quality. The most common training-tradition in physiotherapy is rooted in the culture of training the physical body; less on the awareness training and experience of health. The study build on two basic principles: that training awareness is fundamental in physiotherapy and that practical skills based on training awareness can be thought and developed. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to focus teaching aspects in promoting movement quality within physiotherapy, influencing self-awareness and experience of health from a four-dimensional approach. Theory: The body of knowledge has roots in a phenomenological perspective concerning philosophy and movement science. Research question: What are the teaching aspects in the process of promoting movement quality in physiotherapy concerning the users` self-awareness and experience of health and well-being? Method: A qualitative research interview is chosen as design and source to collect data. Informants are 1 international movement-expert and 15 Norwegian physiotherapists from: 1) neurological physiotherapy, 2) municipal physiotherapy and 3) psychiatric ? and psychosomatic physiotherapy. The interviews are taped, transcribed and sent the informants for reading. Ethical guidelines are followed. Kvales` recommendation concerning analysis of the interviews will be used in the research aiming at central aspects basic to promote movement quality in physiotherapy. Result: A group of teaching aspects is by now identified in the material. Discussion and Conclusion will be lead towards potential teaching aspects for use to promote movement quality in physiotherapy. It will be published in an international journal.