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This article uses Heidegger's notion of humanp 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 conceptualised in linear terms
thus missing its existential structure. Our goal in this article 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.

Langue : ANGLAIS