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Detecting and Addressing Psychological Factors

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It is the psychological dimension that brings life to the lived experience, much like colour and textures enliven a painting. Contemporary understanding of the lived experience via the study of phenomenology, enactivism and embodied cognition informs us that ‘what it is like’ is not separate to the physical body or the circumstances within which the experience arises. One can consider thoughts and emotions, which emerge together, and bodily sensations to be embodied and embedded within a context. This context is modern society.

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Stace, R.M. (2020). Detecting and Addressing Psychological Factors. In: Dejour, D., Zaffagnini, S., Arendt, E., Sillanpää, P., Dirisamer, F. (eds) Patellofemoral Pain, Instability, and Arthritis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61097-8_3

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