Ahola S1, Skjaerven LH2, Piirainen A1
1University of Jyväskylä, Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Department of Health and Function, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bergen, Norway
Background: Being connected with one´s own movement has described as an essential part of the movement awareness learning process in physiotherapy. Life experiences and long-lasting musculo-skeletal disorders can foster the person´s lack of contact with the physical body, inner life, the external environment and in the relation to other people, expressed in human movement and function. The uniqueness of the physiotherapy profession is that the physiotherapist´s sensitive accompaniment with own movement quality is fundamental to promote the patient become personally involved movement learning process.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop professional learning to explicate physiotherapists´ own movement quality conceptions and research questions was: What are the physiotherapists´ conceptions in own movement quality within movement awareness approach?
Methods: The participants were 15 physiotherapists (ranged from 27 to 54 years of age) and they had an average 15 years of experience as physiotherapist. The participants had applied to the post-graduate education of Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT) before invited to participate this study. The data was collected by interviews at the end of BBAT course. Two group interviews were conducted when gathering the data. The transcribed material (35 pages) was analyzed by phenomenographic approach.
Results: The result revealed physiotherapists´ descriptions of four descriptive categories: I) Lack of contact with own movement quality, II) Acquired contact with own movement quality, III) Momentary presence with own movement quality, and IV) Professional reflection with movement quality in physiotherapy. According to the result, physiotherapists´ deepen and widen their understanding of their own movement quality going three critical aspects between the descriptive categories: Recognize of own movement quality, Difference between own and the others movement quality and Courage to use own movement in physiotherapy.
Conclusion(s): The results reveals four descriptive categories (I - IV), which seem to follow the cycle for experiential learning, Movement Awareness Learning. In the present study three critical aspects: Recognize of own movement quality, Difference between own and the others movement quality, and Courage to use own movement in physiotherapy, refer aspects to be important to deepen and widen physiotherapists´ own awareness of movement quality.
Implications: The results shows the variation of how physiotherapists describe their own movement quality. For physiotherapists a more widen and deepen way of understanding the own movement quality, means familiarity with the own movement awareness, which may provide a great step in professional learning in physiotherapy.
Keywords: Movement Quality, Movement Awareness Learning, Physiotherapist`s conceptions
Funding acknowledgements: Non-funded. Supported by Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, and University of Jyväskylä.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop professional learning to explicate physiotherapists´ own movement quality conceptions and research questions was: What are the physiotherapists´ conceptions in own movement quality within movement awareness approach?
Methods: The participants were 15 physiotherapists (ranged from 27 to 54 years of age) and they had an average 15 years of experience as physiotherapist. The participants had applied to the post-graduate education of Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT) before invited to participate this study. The data was collected by interviews at the end of BBAT course. Two group interviews were conducted when gathering the data. The transcribed material (35 pages) was analyzed by phenomenographic approach.
Results: The result revealed physiotherapists´ descriptions of four descriptive categories: I) Lack of contact with own movement quality, II) Acquired contact with own movement quality, III) Momentary presence with own movement quality, and IV) Professional reflection with movement quality in physiotherapy. According to the result, physiotherapists´ deepen and widen their understanding of their own movement quality going three critical aspects between the descriptive categories: Recognize of own movement quality, Difference between own and the others movement quality and Courage to use own movement in physiotherapy.
Conclusion(s): The results reveals four descriptive categories (I - IV), which seem to follow the cycle for experiential learning, Movement Awareness Learning. In the present study three critical aspects: Recognize of own movement quality, Difference between own and the others movement quality, and Courage to use own movement in physiotherapy, refer aspects to be important to deepen and widen physiotherapists´ own awareness of movement quality.
Implications: The results shows the variation of how physiotherapists describe their own movement quality. For physiotherapists a more widen and deepen way of understanding the own movement quality, means familiarity with the own movement awareness, which may provide a great step in professional learning in physiotherapy.
Keywords: Movement Quality, Movement Awareness Learning, Physiotherapist`s conceptions
Funding acknowledgements: Non-funded. Supported by Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, and University of Jyväskylä.
Topic: Education; Mental health; Education: continuing professional development
Ethics approval required: Yes
Institution: Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki.
Ethics committee: The committee for educational research ethics approved the study.
Ethics number: 20 March 2013
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