Concepts of disablement in documents guiding physical therapy practice

Raman, Shekar; Levi, S J

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“…Raman and Levi in USA stated that many conceptualized disability as individual limitations within specific contexts and infrequently conceptualized disability as a societal phenomenon affecting persons across most settings and circumstances. They believed that a concept of disability that is more inclusive of broad, as well as specific contexts of disability may lead to improved physical therapy management for individuals with a wide range of performance capacities [3]. …”

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Obstacles to Obtaining Optimal Physiotherapy Services in a Rural Community in Southeastern Nigeria

Igwesi-Chidobe

2012

Rehabilitation Research and Practice

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Background. Many people continue to live with physical disabilities across the globe, especially in rural Africa despite expertise of Physiotherapists and available evidence of effectiveness of Physiotherapy. Objective. To determine the obstacles to obtaining Optimal Physiotherapy services in a rural community in Southeastern Nigeria. Methods. Population-based cross-sectional study of individuals and health facilities in a rural community in Southeastern Nigeria. Results. The obstacles to obtaining optimal physiotherapy services in this community were unavailability of physiotherapy services, poor knowledge of health workers and community dwellers of the roles and scope of physiotherapy, poor health care seeking behavior of community dwellers, patronage of traditional health workers, and poor referral practices by health workers. Conclusion. Rural health workers in Nkanu West Local Government and other rural communities in Nigeria and Africa should be educated on the roles and scope of physiotherapy. There is a need for raising awareness of the management options for movement/functional problems for rural indigenous communities in Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. Physiotherapists should be made aware of the growing need for physiotherapy in rural areas of Nigeria and Africa largely comprising of the elderly.

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Obstacles to Obtaining Optimal Physiotherapy Services in a Rural Community in Southeastern Nigeria

Igwesi-Chidobe

2012

Rehabilitation Research and Practice

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“…Disability is a relative concept defined within the context of how it is used (Raman and Levi 2002). Traditionally, disability was defined within a physiological, functionalist perspective and was classified according to individual pathology and associated deficits, abnormalities and functional limitations.…”

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(Re)constructing Myself: the process of transition to motherhood for women with a disability

Lawler

Begley

Lalor

2015

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aim This paper presents a substantive theory that explains the transition to motherhood for women with a disability. Background Over the last thirty years, interest in exploring women's experiences of motherhood has increased. Extant theories on transition to motherhood originate, primarily, from the perspective and experiences of non‐disabled women with few exploring the phenomenon from the perspective and experiences of women with a disability. Those that do tend to focus on issues of accessibility, profiling the challenges that women with a disability encounter while accessing maternity services, attaining a maternal role and fulfilling the requirements of that role. Little is known about the experiences of women with a disability and their transition to motherhood and even less about the relationship of this process on the self. Design The study was conducted using a Strauss and Corbin approach to grounded theory. Method Individual interviews (n = 22) were conducted over 4 years (2008–2012). Women were interviewed during pregnancy and in the postnatal period. All interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim, imported into Nvivo 8 and analysed using the constant comparative method. Findings The substantive theory that emerged from the study provides a conceptual framework clinicians can reference when counselling, assisting and facilitating women with a disability during their preparation for and transition to motherhood. Conclusion The substantive theory presented in this paper will increase clinicians' understanding of the process involved in the transition to motherhood for women with a disability.

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“…Disability scholars point out that the rehabilitation focus on impairment can also reinforce the idea that impairments are the essential characteristics of disability and that persons are disabled because they are lacking in some functional capacity such as moving, seeing, hearing, or thinking (Linton, 1998;Longmore, 1995aLongmore, , 1995bNagi, 1991;Rioux, 1997;Scotch, 2001;Wendell, 1996;Zola, 1993aZola, , 1993b. Such a perspective can contribute to oppression of disabled persons because it reinforces the privatization and individualization of disability (Longmore & Goldberger, 2000;Raman & Levi, 2002). That is, by focusing on the client's impairment as the problem rather than treating environmental (physical, social, political, and economic) barriers as the true problem, rehabilitation can reinforce the perception that disability is an individual matter requiring private solutions rather than a matter of socially produced barriers requiring public, political solutions (Linton, 1998;Longmore, 1995b;Nagi, 1991;Scotch, 2001;Zola, 1972).…”

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Rethinking Disability and What To Do About It: Disability Studies and Its Implications for Occupational Therapy

Kielhofner

2005

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Disability studies seeks to reframe rehabilitation's understanding and responses to disability. Disability scholars point out that rehabilitation's perspectives and practices are not objective, but instead reflect particular historical and ideological forces. By demonstrating how rehabilitation practitioners can unintentionally do things that are unhelpful or even harmful, disability scholars challenge the profession of occupational therapy to reconsider aspects of practice, education, and research. In order to provide a context for a special issue devoted to disability studies, this paper examines disability studies' major critiques of rehabilitation and considers their implications for occupational therapy. The paper identifies ways that occupational therapy can continue to respond reflectively to the themes of disability studies. It also identifies a number of questions raised by disability studies that will need to be addressed in practice, education, and research.

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Concepts of disablement in documents guiding physical therapy practice

Cited by 8 publications

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Obstacles to Obtaining Optimal Physiotherapy Services in a Rural Community in Southeastern Nigeria

Obstacles to Obtaining Optimal Physiotherapy Services in a Rural Community in Southeastern Nigeria

(Re)constructing Myself: the process of transition to motherhood for women with a disability

Rethinking Disability and What To Do About It: Disability Studies and Its Implications for Occupational Therapy

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