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Ans) Families consider physiotherapy and physiotherapists to play a critical role in the care of their relative.
- Their perspectives are dependent upon and inextricably linked to the level and extent of their relative’s consciousness in the present and the likelihood of (and beliefs about) “meaningful” recovery in the future.
- Understanding the variety of interpretations, families give to physiotherapy and its practices is critical to developing positive relations with families of people in vegetative or minimally conscious states and providing care to their relatives.
- Physiotherapists should be aware that both their action but also inaction – for example, the withdrawal of services – are symbolically powerful.
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