@article{ref1,
title="The man who used to shrug - one man's lived experience of TBI",
journal="NeuroRehabilitation",
year="2020",
author="Walsh, R. Stephen and Crawley, Lorraine and Dagnall, Neil and Fortune, Dónal G.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Stress is common to the experience of TBI. Stressors challenge physical and psychological coping abilities and undermine wellbeing. Brain injury constitutes a specific chronic stressor. An issue that hinders the usefulness of a stress-based approach to brain injury is a lack of semantic clarity attaching to the term stress. A more precise conceptualisation of stress that embraces experienced uncertainty is allostasis.   OBJECTIVE: An emerging body of research, collectively identifiable as 'the social cure' literature, shows that the groups that people belong to can promote adjustment, coping, and well-being amongst individuals confronted with injuries, illnesses, traumas, and stressors. The idea is deceptively simple, yet extraordinarily useful: the sense of self that individuals derive from belonging to social groups plays a key role in determining health and well-being. The objective of this research was to apply a social cure perspective to a consideration of an individual's lived experience of TBI.   METHODS: In a novel application of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) this research has investigated one person's lived experience in a single case study of traumatic brain injury.   RESULTS: Paradox, shifting perspectives and self under stress, linked by uncertainty, were the themes identified.   CONCLUSIONS: A relational approach must be key to TBI rehabilitation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1053-8135",
doi="10.3233/NRE-203079",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/NRE-203079"
}