AIM AND OBJECTIVES: To investigate how spinal cord injured @entity1 struggle with their rehabilitation and how they feel that the professionals influence this process. BACKGROUND: Rehabilitation after a @entity1566 is a long and arduous process during which the @entity1 needs much support. Some @entity1 lack adequate support from the professionals. This makes it pertinent to investigate the processes @entity1 go through to get on with their lives and the influence professionals have. DESIGN: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study with a narrative approach using Ricoeur's theory. METHOD: A purposeful and consecutive sample of 12 newly injured, adult Danish-speaking @entity1 previously living a normal life were observed 7-12 times and interviewed six or seven times over two years. RESULTS: The @entity1 regained meaning and got on with life through resolute fighting for a meaningful life. We found three patterns of fight; the @entity1 fought with themselves together with the professionals (pattern I). If consensus about the goals and pathway broke down and was not re-established, this fight could turn into a fight against the professionals (pattern II). This would, in turn, cause the @entity1 to fight against themselves. A third pattern (III) was that the @entity1 turned away, either going their own way or suppressing themselves by adapting to the professionals' views. In either case, the @entity1 would feel being left on their own. CONCLUSION: When the @entity1 and professionals agreed on the way forward, the @entity1 experienced the professionals as supportive. However, if the @entity1 's goals were not consistent with the professionals' views, the @entity1 felt that the professionals withdrew their support. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: If the professional were able to maintain consensus with the @entity1 , they contributed to the @entity1 's process of regaining meaning.

Rehabilitation after XXXX and the influence of the professional's support (or lack thereof).

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient'] @entity1566 :: ('MESH:D013119', 'Disease') :: ['spinal cord injury']
@entity1566 :: (MESH:D013119,Disease) :: ['spinal cord injury']
