Unpacking community mobility: a preliminary study into the embodied experiences of stroke survivors

Disability and Rehabilitation
Christa S NanningaAnt T Lettinga

Abstract

To enrich the discussion on mobility in stroke rehabilitation by translating theoretical repertoires of mobility from the context of geography to rehabilitation. Qualitative research methodology was applied, and included in-depth interviews with stroke survivors. This study revealed: (a) social and material differences in clinical, private and public places; (b) ambivalences and shifting tensions in bodily, family and community life; (c) differences in access to resources to be used for mobility. Moving around safely was not a matter of being physically able to walk independently, it also involved dealing with different human actors - such as children, partners and shoppers, and non-human actors - such as doorbells and traffic rules. Stroke survivors had to balance exercise and training, family and working life, and leisure and pleasure, and to renegotiate their mobility in each context. Our study showed that mobility has many aspects that interact with each other in multiple ways for stroke survivors when they return home and thereafter. The current focus on adherence to mobility and exercise training at home needs to be critically reviewed as it does not capture the multiplicities embodied in real-life settings. Implications ...Continue Reading

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