BACKGROUND Prostheses are used to varying degrees; however, little is known about how environmental aspects influence this use. OBJECTIVES To describe users' experiences of how environmental factors influence their use of a myoelectric arm prosthesis. STUDY DESIGN Qualitative and descriptive. METHODS A total of 13 patients previously provided with a myoelectric prosthetic hand participate...

A brief theoretical review of the current state of the art of embodiment research in clinical psychology has been expounded in order to highlight the key role that embodied conceptualization has on the understanding and explanation of several mental disorders, such as eating disorders, schizophrenia and depression. Evidence has suggested that mental disorders may be explained as disturbances of...

This article – grounded in ethnographic fieldwork within the organization of chronic patients with multiple sclerosis Russia empiricizes and problematizes work it takes to craft collaborations care. We attend notion collaboration ‘from a body’, or, rather, from bodies-in-movement. By scrutinizing three turning points our along relations partners field, we specify how movement matters collaborat...