Includes bibliographical references and index.

Qualitative research in contemporary healthcare and rehabilitative practices -- The role of qualitative research in adapted physical activity -- Exploring the value of qualitative comparison groups in rehabilitation research : lessons from youth with disabilities transitioning into work -- Unravelling the irrational : addressing the subjective nature of sexual risk-taking through qualitative research -- The phenomenological experience of family caregiving following traumatic brain injury -- Using interpretative phenomenological analysis to study patient and family members' experiences of a mechanical ventilation weaning unit -- Using narrative analysis to study coping and adjusting to cardiothoracic transplant -- Qualitative research and osteoarthritis of the knee -- Shaping rehabilitation after spinal cord injury : the impact of qualitative research -- Hand injuries and disorders during the life cycle : consequences, adaptation and therapeutic approach -- Giving people with aphasia a voice through qualitative research -- The impact of qualitative research in rheumatology -- Challenging assumptions about "normal" development in children's rehabilitation : the promise of critical qualitative research -- Bringing qualitative research into rehabilitation : a worked example of developing a rehabilitation program for patients with fibromyalgia -- Concept development through qualitative research : the case of social support networks for people with intellectual disabilities -- The importance of social support in the rehabilitation of female bariatric surgery patients : lessons learned from qualitative inquiry -- Qualitative research focusing on caregiving outcomes -- Multiple sclerosis -- Designing qualitative research to have an impact on healthcare from the outset -- Ethnography and emotions : new directions for critical reflexivity within contemporary qualitative health care research.