TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - The man who used to shrug - one man's lived experience of TBI
JO  - NeuroRehabilitation
A1  - Walsh, R. Stephen
A1  - Crawley, Lorraine
A1  - Dagnall, Neil
A1  - Fortune, Dónal G.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1053-8135
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/NRE-203079
ID  - ref1
ER  -