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Addressing Existential Disruption in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A New approach to Human Temporality in Inpatient Rehabilitation (Papadimitriou & Stone) 2011

This paper uses Heidegger’s notion of human temporality to illuminate the meaning of the temporal disruption that can occur after traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI). Though time is seen as important in rehabilitation practice, especially in occupational theory, it is often conceptualized in linear terms thus missing its existential structure. Our goal in this paper is to enhance researchers’ and rehabilitation clinicians’ ways of doing and thinking about rehabilitation by revealing and articulating the role of human temporality in recovery and re-habilitation in the case of TSCI. Data come from ethnographic observations and field notes from one rehabilitation facility, interviews with former and current patients of spinal units, and interviews with allied health staff who work with adults with TSCI. We discuss research and practice implications of this work for allied health staff in identifying ways of bringing this new approach to temporality into practice.

Becoming En-wheeled: Re-embodiment as a wheelchair user after Spinal Cord Injury (Papadimitriou) 2008b

This paper discusses the creative process of re-embodiment experienced by physically disabled adults who become wheelchair users. Interviews and observational data of adults (rehabilitation patients and persons living in the community) who use wheelchairs show how they re-define, re-examine or modify past experiences, abilities, life-styles and habits in their efforts toward re-embodiment. The aim of this paper is to document the process of learning to use a wheelchair and making it a part of one's embodied existence. The paper shows that this process involves the negotiation of past and new habits, abilities and ways of doing. It argues against conceptualizing disability as an all-encompassing state of being. Rather the competence and abilities required to achieve wheelchair embodiment are analyzed as a situated accomplishment with social and political consequences.
Keywords: Wheelchair use; embodiment; qualitative sociology; spinal cord injury.
Disability and Society 23 (7): 691-704.

'It was hard but you did it': The co-production of 'work' in a clinical setting among Spinal Cord Injured adults and their physical therapists (Papadimitriou) 2008c

Purpose: This paper focuses on what takes place during the rehabilitation of spinal cord injured (SCI) adults. It analyzes the cardinal rehabilitation task of transforming the compromised, limited and injured corporeal style of newly-injured adults (best described phenomenologically as an ‘I cannot do’ or ‘ I no longer can’) into a new style of embodiment, one in which ‘I am newly-abled’. This transformation is not a passive, surrendering experience. Rather, as informants repeatedly noted, ‘rehabilitation is hard work’. This paper examines that ‘work’.

Christina Papadimitriou & Stephanie Kanter

Method: This paper draws from observational and interview data collected over an eighteen month period in a metropolitan rehabilitation center in the Midwestern United States. It presents an exemplar case of a clinical setting, that between a physical therapist and her SCI client.
Results: The interactional and meaning-making nature of clinical encounters are explicated, revealing the collaborative and situational constitution of rehabilitation work.
Conclusions: Experience-near, phenomenologically informed, research is shown to be a valuable way of understanding rehabilitation practices and how they might affect in-patients and staff.
Key Words: Spinal Cord Injured adults; rehabilitation; physical therapy work; newly-abled.

Phenomenologically-informed inquiry in physical rehabilitation: how to do documentation and interpretation of qualitative data (Papadimitriou) 2012

In this didactic paper I offer an example of how we can use a phenomenologically-informed sociological approach to analyze ethnographic and interview data from a clinical encounter. I show that the value of this approach is not that we will reach a more accurate interpretation of qualitative data, but that it opens up multiple ways of seeing and interpreting thus challenging us to re-think our scientific and lay assumptions. By explicating the interpretation process, I hope to increase awareness of how theoretical and practice assumptions may hinder deep, nuanced, and new understandings of clinical encounters. In doing so, physiotherapists and other health professionals can see the value of seeing clinical encounters beyond clinical models and ask questions of how they understand their work environments and clients.
Key words: phenomenology, qualitative methods, spinal cord injury, sociology, rehabilitation professionals

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Conceptual Underpinnings

Christina Papadimitriou, Ph.D.

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Christina Papadimitriou, Ph.D.

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Mission Statement

My work focuses on the acceptance and experience of disability as being another type of diversity. A diversity that has long been unrecognized or un-utilized. Research demonstrates a number of possibilities for living in a world that fully embraces disability as a positive form of human potential. When this happens we see how the equitable access to health care is fostered. Christina- I made the mission statement reflect a more action orientated stance. Does this still fit with what you want to impart?

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My work focuses on the acceptance and experience of disability as being another type of diversity. A diversity that has long been unrecognized or un-utilized. Research demonstrates a number of possibilities for living in a world that fully embraces disability as a positive form of human potential. When this happens we see how the equitable access to health care services is fostered.
Christina- I made the mission statement reflect a more action orientated stance. Does this still fit with what you want to impart?

Or, The Purpose of This Site...

Mission Statement

My passion is to promote the acceptance of
the experience of disability as a form of human diversity, and thus promote living in a society that embraces disability as a form of human potential and foster the equitable access to health care services.

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Christina,
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Summaries of​Selected Publications