{"title":"Pushing and guiding me towards home; patients' perspectives of person-centred physiotherapy in Intensive Care.","authors":"Helen Carruthers, David Derry, Felicity Astin","doi":"10.1080/09638288.2025.2466724","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Person-centred physiotherapy in Intensive Care Units (ICU) supports patients' early rehabilitation. Yet little is known about the activity required to enable person-centred physiotherapy in this setting. This study explores the experiences and interpretations of people who received physiotherapy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A qualitative study using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was conducted. Eight participants, recruited from a Ventilation Unit in Northwest England, were interviewed. Data were transcribed and managed using NVivo 12 software.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants described being \"pushed\" and guided by physiotherapists. The \"emotional\" pushing through motivation and encouragement, and \"physical\" pushing through setting goals, were perceived as person-centred activities, despite physiotherapists initially directing them. Other important aspects of individualised care were feeling safe and understanding how their body had changed.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Patients viewed physiotherapist led rehabilitation in ICU as being person-centred, despite the lack of collaboration during early recovery, because they were too ill. Models of person-centred physiotherapy could be made more applicable to clinical settings by fully integrating the patient perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":50575,"journal":{"name":"Disability and Rehabilitation","volume":" ","pages":"5602-5610"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Disability and Rehabilitation","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2025.2466724","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/2/22 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"REHABILITATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Purpose: Person-centred physiotherapy in Intensive Care Units (ICU) supports patients' early rehabilitation. Yet little is known about the activity required to enable person-centred physiotherapy in this setting. This study explores the experiences and interpretations of people who received physiotherapy.
Methods: A qualitative study using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was conducted. Eight participants, recruited from a Ventilation Unit in Northwest England, were interviewed. Data were transcribed and managed using NVivo 12 software.
Results: Participants described being "pushed" and guided by physiotherapists. The "emotional" pushing through motivation and encouragement, and "physical" pushing through setting goals, were perceived as person-centred activities, despite physiotherapists initially directing them. Other important aspects of individualised care were feeling safe and understanding how their body had changed.
Conclusions: Patients viewed physiotherapist led rehabilitation in ICU as being person-centred, despite the lack of collaboration during early recovery, because they were too ill. Models of person-centred physiotherapy could be made more applicable to clinical settings by fully integrating the patient perspective.
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Disability and Rehabilitation along with Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology are international multidisciplinary journals which seek to encourage a better understanding of all aspects of disability and to promote rehabilitation science, practice and policy aspects of the rehabilitation process.
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