Miriam Dillon, Rebecca E Olson, Stefanie Plage, Maxi Miciak, Peter Window, Matthew Stewart, Anja Christoffersen, Simon Kilner, Natalie Barthel, Jenny Setchell
INTRODUCTION: Distress is part of the experiences and care for people with chronic low back pain. However, distress is often pathologised and individualised; it is seen as a problem within the individual in pain and something to be downplayed, avoided, or fixed. To that end, we situate distress as a normal everyday relational experience circulating, affecting, moving in, through, and across bodies. Challenging practices that may amplify distress, we draw on the theorisation of affect as a relational assemblage to analyse physiotherapy clinical encounters in the care of people with chronic low back pain...
2023: Frontiers in sociology